{"id":105290,"date":"2025-07-31T19:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=105290"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:17:10","slug":"yankees-acquire-camilo-doval-sf-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/31\/yankees-acquire-camilo-doval-sf-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Yankees Acquire Camilo Doval from SF Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees are making a splash this trade deadline, trading for their third relief pitcher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dovalca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camilo Doval<\/a>, within the span of just a few hours. Jack Curry of the YES Network was the first to report the deal, which occurred just minutes before the 6 pm EST deadline. In return for Doval, New York is sending four prospects to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89034\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-89034\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/11\/USATSI_24350401_168403884_lowres.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sep 28, 2024; San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants pitcher Camilo Doval (75) throws a pitch against the St. Louis Cardinals during the sixth inning at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Report: SF Giants Trade Camilo Doval to Yankees<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That\u2019s it for the Yankees today. They added Bednar, Bird and Doval to transform their bullpen. And they added Caballero to give them infield depth, flexibility and speed. They were hunting for a starting pitcher. But did not end up adding one.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JackCurryYES (@JackCurryYES) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackCurryYES\/status\/1951041374289272901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Newest Addition<\/h3>\n<p>Doval, 28, joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bednada01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Bednar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/birdja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Bird<\/a> as the newest additions to a much more formidable Yankee bullpen. The right-hander is enjoying another great season after an unusually rough 2024. He has a 3.09 ERA and 50 strikeouts over 46 2\/3 innings, with 24 walks as the only concerning statistic. He is primarily a ground-ball pitcher, boasting a 52.2% ground ball rate. Additionally, opponents are only hitting .175 and .220 off his slider and cutter (his two most-thrown pitches), respectively.<\/p>\n<h3>Flipping the Script<\/h3>\n<p>The Yankees needed to make big moves if they want to contend with the Toronto Blue Jays, who will only improve now that they&#8217;ve acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/biebesh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shane Bieber<\/a> from the Cleveland Guardians. With Doval, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/31\/yankees-acquire-all-star-closer-daivid-bednar-pirates\/\" target=\"_self\">Bednar<\/a>, and Bird heading to the Bronx, the Yankees have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/19\/yankees-need-relievers-pitcher\/\" target=\"_self\">fulfilled their biggest need<\/a>\u00a0as July winds down. Because a good chunk of their bullpen is depleted, New York is now much more prepared to win back first place in the AL East and, subsequently, make a deep run in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the prospects heading to the Giants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=vrieli000try&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trystan Vrieling<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=delaro005car,delaro004car&amp;search=Carlos+De+La+Rosa&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos De La Rosa<\/a>, are pitchers currently in Rookie ball. The other two, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=rodrig026jes,rodrig025jes&amp;search=Jesus+Rodriguez&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesus Rodriguez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=harber000par&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parks Harber<\/a>, are position players in Double-A and Single-A, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees are making a splash this trade deadline, trading for their third relief pitcher, Camilo Doval, within the span of just a few hours. Jack Curry of the YES Network was the first to report the deal, which occurred just minutes before the 6 pm EST deadline. In return for Doval, New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5148,"featured_media":97541,"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":[5,1071,35,31],"tags":[6283,5829,6343],"class_list":["post-105290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","category-giants","tag-camilo-doval","tag-david-bednar","tag-jake-bird"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105290","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=105290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105339,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105290\/revisions\/105339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}