{"id":116334,"date":"2026-03-24T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=116334"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:09:39","slug":"winquest-makes-yankees-gil-to-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/03\/24\/winquest-makes-yankees-gil-to-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cade Winquest Makes Yankees\u2019 Opening Day Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Jon Heyman of the <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/sports\/cade-winquest-makes-yankees-roster-in-rare-rule-5-success-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Post<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, right-handed reliever <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=winque000cad\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cade Winquest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has made the New York Yankees\u2019 Opening Day roster. As a result, right-handed starter <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/03\/23\/yankees-open-2026-with-four-man-rotation\/\" target=\"_self\">Luis Gil will start the season with the Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Railriders<\/a>. Winquest, who was a Rule Five Draft selection by New York this past winter, is also the first player from the Rule Five Draft to make the Yankees\u2019 Opening Day roster since 2007 (<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/phelpjo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Phelps<\/a>). He joins a Yankee bullpen that currently features <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bednada01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Bednar<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dovalca01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camilo Doval<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hillti01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Hill<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cruzfe01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fernando Cruz<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yarbrry01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Yarbrough<\/a>, and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/blackpa01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Blackburn<\/a>. Winquest is the sole current member who did not pitch for New York last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cade Winquest made the Yankees\u2019 Opening Day roster. Rare rule 5 pick to ever do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2036478099332673783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Quick Jump<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 25-year-old Texas native has yet to pitch above Double-A, let alone in the Majors, and his spring stats certainly reflected this; Winquest pitched 10 innings for New York this spring, giving up nine runs (eight earned), three home runs, and striking out eight. Per Heyman, the Yankees are happy with the direction he\u2019s taken since joining the club this offseason. Plus, there have been plenty of successful jumps from Double-A straight to MLB; just look at <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sotoju01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formerly a starter, Winquest will join a Yankee bullpen that is hoping to get back on its feet after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/09\/10\/yankees-bullpen-could-be-downfall-postseason\/\" target=\"_self\">a tumultuous 2025 regular season and postseason<\/a>. Through 25 appearances across Double-A and High-A, he notched a 4.58 ERA with 110 strikeouts over 106 innings, surrendering 39 walks and seven home runs. It\u2019s too early to tell whether or not his stuff will translate to Major League Baseball, especially since he has yet to make his MLB debut, but clearly the Yankees believe that there is something there. And, in all fairness, this is a coaching staff that has been excellent at picking up under-the-radar bullpen pieces, so perhaps Winquest will be New York\u2019s next diamond in the rough reliever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, right-handed reliever Cade Winquest has made the New York Yankees\u2019 Opening Day roster. As a result, right-handed starter Luis Gil will start the season with the Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Railriders. Winquest, who was a Rule Five Draft selection by New York this past winter, is also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5148,"featured_media":116401,"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":[1071,5,35],"tags":[29262,6283,5829,29024,28353,2133,2860,5656,887,28789],"class_list":["post-116334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-yankees","category-news","tag-cade-winquest","tag-camilo-doval","tag-david-bednar","tag-fernando-cruz","tag-josh-phelps","tag-juan-soto","tag-luis-gil","tag-paul-blackburn","tag-ryan-yarbrough","tag-tim-hill"],"modified_by":"Augustus Oswald, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116334","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=116334"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116409,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116334\/revisions\/116409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}