{"id":105436,"date":"2025-08-01T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=105436"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:54:43","slug":"yankees-release-veteran-starting-pitcher-marcus-stroman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/08\/01\/yankees-release-veteran-starting-pitcher-marcus-stroman\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Release Veteran Starting Pitcher Following Busy Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Yankees continue to make roster moves, as they have<a  href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/01\/sports\/yankees-release-marcus-stroman-after-mlb-trade-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> released<\/a> veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/12\/yankees-rotation-early-season-struggles\/\" target=\"_self\">starting pitcher<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stromma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Stroman<\/a>. The release happened on Friday, post-trade deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87715\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-87715\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/10\/USATSI_24201242-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sep 10, 2024; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees starting pitcher Marcus Stroman (0) delivers a pitch during the first inning against the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stroman pitched on Thursday against the Tampa Bay Rays, where his outing was another typical day. The Yankees did grab a 7-4 win over the Rays, although Stroman was not the sharpest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right-hander allowed six hits, four earned runs, and struck out three batters in just five innings of work. He threw 74 pitches, and 49 of those were strikes. This spiked his ERA to an unacceptable 6.23.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Yankees announced that they have released Marcus Stroman.<\/p>\n<p>Stroman has a 6.23 ERA in 39 IP this season. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2sBp9CD3Xt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/2sBp9CD3Xt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1951341043909345294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Marcus Stroman Released by Yankees<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stroman and the Yankees were meant to be by story; the right-hander grew up on Long Island. Toronto ultimately did not work out for the veteran pitcher, nor did Chicago, or even Queens. Stroman was destined to be in pinstripes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Yankees took a leap of faith with a short commitment to the right-hander. In 2024, he marked a .526 win percentage with the club. He finished with a 4.31 ERA in 154 2\/3 innings of work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This season, he\u2019s only thrown 39 innings. This is due to injury and the Yankees&#8217; trust, or lack thereof, in the starting pitcher. Brian Cashman needed to find a role for him, and they\u2019ve considered short and long relief. This was not sufficient for the Yankees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another part of the decision to let Stroman go is the impending return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=gillu01,gil---004lui&amp;search=Luis+Gil&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Gil<\/a>. He is expected back from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/03\/yankees-lose-luis-gil-high-grade-lat-strain\/\" target=\"_self\">injured list<\/a> in the upcoming weeks, and this moves Stroman out of any rotational role. The Yankees were strategic with this move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right-hander Stroman has $18 million left on his contract, which the Yankees will absorb. The $18 million for 2026 would have depended on Stroman pitching 140 innings-plus, which did not happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stressful tenure for Stroman has ended, and the right-handed starter will be back on the market, as the Yankees reunite with the rehabbing Gil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees continue to make roster moves, as they have released veteran starting pitcher Marcus Stroman. The release happened on Friday, post-trade deadline. Stroman pitched on Thursday against the Tampa Bay Rays, where his outing was another typical day. The Yankees did grab a 7-4 win over the Rays, although Stroman was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5126,"featured_media":99238,"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":[676,2860,285],"class_list":["post-105436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-brian-cashman","tag-luis-gil","tag-marcus-stroman"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105436","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\/5126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105443,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105436\/revisions\/105443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}