{"id":109171,"date":"2025-11-05T22:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=109171"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:05:17","slug":"yankees-exercise-option-tim-hill-decline-jonathan-loaisiga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/05\/yankees-exercise-option-tim-hill-decline-jonathan-loaisiga\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Exercise Club Option on Lefty Reliever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the New York Yankees announced that the team has opted to exercise the club option of left-handed reliever Tim Hill. In the same announcement, they also stated that they&#8217;re declining the club option for RHP Jonathan Lo\u00e1isiga.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98024\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-98024\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Lo\u00e1isiga is hoping for a strong comeback season off Tommy John surgery.\" width=\"683\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/USATSI_25423494_168400885_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feb 15, 2025; Tampa, FL, USA; New York Yankees relief pitcher Jonathan Loaisiga (43) participates in spring training workouts at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Yankees Exercise Option on Tim Hill, Decline Jonathan Lo\u00e1isiga&#8217;s Option<\/h2>\n<h3>Lefty Killer<\/h3>\n<p>Hill, 35, had a solid first full season with New York this past year. Tossing 67 innings, he notched a 3.09 ERA and a WHIP of 1.104, striking out 37 batters and walking 16. Hill was a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/10\/15\/yankees-must-improve-bullpen-this-offseason\/\" target=\"_self\">useful weapon for the Yankees<\/a> against left-handed batters, and his situational availability was a key asset in the bullpen for manager Aaron Boone. Lefties slashed .181\/.224\/.220 against him, with righties hitting .282\/.328\/.508. With not many other left-handed relievers for the Yankees to choose from, Hill should once again be a reliable arm out of the &#8216;pen next season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, the Yankees exercised their 2026 club option for LHP Tim Hill and declined their 2026 club option for RHP Jonathan Lo\u00e1isiga.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Yankees (@Yankees) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yankees\/status\/1986135239513522390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Too Many Injuries<\/h3>\n<p>Lo\u00e1isiga, on the other hand, has continued to go through long stints on the injured list, pitching just 29 2\/3 innings to an ERA of 4.25 this past season. But it wasn&#8217;t just the flexor strain that he suffered in August of this season: it&#8217;s the fact that he has only 50 2\/3 innings pitched over the past three seasons, including 2025. His inconsistency and injury history do not make him an ideal candidate for next year&#8217;s roster, especially since the Yankees&#8217; club option would have been for $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>At 31 years old, Lo\u00e1isiga&#8217;s career is certainly not over, but his constant injuries and inability to stay healthy for long stretches will be concerning for a lot of teams. Simply being able to log a good amount of innings is a key part of being a reliable reliever, so the Yankees should be looking to find a replacement(s) for the arms that they&#8217;ll likely lose <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/10\/27\/whats-next-for-the-yankees-this-offseason\/\" target=\"_self\">this offseason<\/a>, especially more left-handers to use situationally alongside Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the New York Yankees announced that the team has opted to exercise the club option of left-handed reliever Tim Hill. In the same announcement, they also stated that they&#8217;re declining the club option for RHP Jonathan Lo\u00e1isiga. Yankees Exercise Option on Tim Hill, Decline Jonathan Lo\u00e1isiga&#8217;s Option Lefty Killer Hill, 35, had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5148,"featured_media":90662,"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":[1787,2492,28789],"class_list":["post-109171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-boone","tag-jonathan-loaisiga","tag-tim-hill"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109171","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=109171"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109194,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109171\/revisions\/109194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}