{"id":105088,"date":"2025-07-30T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=105088"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:16:02","slug":"yankees-interested-ryan-helsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/30\/yankees-interested-ryan-helsley\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Yankees Interested In Cardinals Reliever Ryan Helsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With their bullpen almost <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/19\/yankees-need-relievers-pitcher\/\" target=\"_self\">depleted thanks to injuries<\/a>, the New York Yankees are actively on the hunt for relief pitchers this trade deadline. According to <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Feinsand\/status\/1950214496670363754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLB.com&#8217;s Mark Feinsand<\/a>, New York is eyeing right-handed reliever Ryan Helsley of the St. Louis Cardinals. Last season&#8217;s league-leader in saves currently boasts a 3.00 ERA to go with 41 strikeouts and 21 saves.<\/p>\n<h2>Report: Yankees Interested In Cardinals&#8217; Reliever Ryan Helsley<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ryan Helsley is one of the most popular trade targets with no less than a half-dozen teams interested to varying degrees. Among the suitors, per sources, are the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Phillies, Rangers and Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Feinsand\/status\/1950214496670363754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>The Yankees aren&#8217;t the only team that is pursuing Helsley&#8217;s services, though. According to Feinsand, the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers are all in the mix to acquire the two-time All-Star. This means that the price for Helsley won&#8217;t be cheap; and with the Yankees already having dealt quite a few prospects, they&#8217;ll have to really love him if they&#8217;re going to get him.<\/p>\n<p>Though New York has been linked to dozens of relievers across the league, they&#8217;ve yet to pull the trigger on any of them. After <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/26\/how-yankees-newly-acquired-infielder-ryan-mcmahon-fits\/\" target=\"_self\">acquiring Ryan McMahon from the Colorado Rockies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/26\/yankees-acquire-amed-rosario-nationals\/\" target=\"_self\">Amed Rosario from the Washington Nationals<\/a>, they have to focus on bulking up their bullpen before 6 pm on Thursday. It&#8217;s been their Achilles heel over the past month or two, and if they want any shot at catching the first-place Blue Jays, they&#8217;ll need more reliable arms out of the &#8216;pen.<\/p>\n<p>With Fernando Cruz and Mark Leiter Jr out for significant chunks of time, New York can&#8217;t rely on their bullpen improving via internal options. They need at least one or two more pitchers to support Devin Williams, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/19\/yankees-bullpen-dominant-devin-williams-rebounding\/\" target=\"_self\">finally found his form<\/a> as one of the league&#8217;s top closers. If Helsley joins Williams as a setup man, the Yankees will be one step closer to contending come October.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their bullpen almost depleted thanks to injuries, the New York Yankees are actively on the hunt for relief pitchers this trade deadline. According to MLB.com&#8217;s Mark Feinsand, New York is eyeing right-handed reliever Ryan Helsley of the St. Louis Cardinals. Last season&#8217;s league-leader in saves currently boasts a 3.00 ERA to go with 41 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[4266,3915],"class_list":["post-105088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-devin-williams","tag-ryan-helsley"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105088"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105110,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105088\/revisions\/105110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}