The Yankees just can't catch a break. Ryan Weathers walked off the mound in the 4th inning against Toronto on Saturday, and the injury report that followed was not encouraging: left forearm discomfort, with imaging ordered immediately. For a rotation that's already been picked apart by the injury bug all year, losing Weathers even short-term is a gut punch.
More tough injury news for the Yankees as Ryan Weathers has come out of the game after this pitch https://t.co/1LIr9Xx0ZY
Per reporting on the game, Weathers felt something after throwing a sweeper to Blue Jays baserunner Myles Straw and had to be pulled before he could finish the at-bat. Yerry De Los Santos came on in relief. The Yankees' initial word was murky on which arm, but the club has since said it's left forearm discomfort and that imaging was being done Saturday to figure out how serious it is.
This isn't Weathers' first rodeo with arm trouble, either. He dealt with a flexor strain and a lat strain last season that limited him to just 8 major league starts, and he's still never thrown a full, healthy MLB season since debuting with San Diego back in 2020. That injury history is exactly why Barstool's Eric Hubbs said the exit "felt inevitable" given the innings pitched limits he was already bumping up against.
Really bad. Weathers had injury issues in the past and was reaching IP limits here so this sort of felt inevitable. Would be a big loss
What makes this one sting more is where Weathers was at this season. The Yankees traded 4 minor leaguers to Miami for him in January, and after some early bumps he'd quietly become arguably New York's best starter over the last 2 months — a real find for a team that's leaned on him more than expected. Fans on the timeline picked up on that immediately, with reactions pointing out the injury luck the Yankees have had all year and specifically flagging how well Weathers had been throwing.
The yankees injuries are just horrific it's never ending. Weathers has been killing it
There's a bit of family lore wrapped up in this too — Weathers' father, David Weathers, won a World Series ring with the Yankees back in 1996, so this stint in pinstripes was supposed to be a full-circle moment for the family. Instead, the story right now is imaging results and a rotation that has to figure out how to cover for him if this turns into anything beyond a scare.
For now, everything hinges on what that imaging shows. If it's just discomfort and a short IL stint, the Yankees dodge a bullet during a stretch where they need every reliable arm they can get. If it's worse, this is the kind of injury that can knock a pitcher out for extended time — and given Weathers' track record, nobody in the Bronx is going to feel great until there's clarity.