Long-Time Yankees Pitcher Joins American League Bottom Feeder After Trade

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Gomez first joined the Yankees system in 2017 and made his major-league debut with the team in 2023.

After logging more than 23 innings over three years with the Yankees, Gomez found his way to the division rival Tampa Bay Rays to start this season after several stops in between, and he has now been traded to the Minnesota Twins, per El Extrabase’s Daniel Alvarez-Montes.

“Gómez, 26, was once a notable prospect with the Yankees but he hasn’t been able to click in the majors yet,” Darragh McDonald wrote for MLB Trade Rumors after the news. “He exhausted his final option season in 2024, which has pushed him into fringe roster territory. He pitched for the Yankees, Dodgers and White Sox last year. He was traded to the Rays in November and began this season with them.”

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Gomez posted a 6.23 ERA in nine games with the Rays before the move and now it looks like he will take on a long relief role for the Twins, who are in last place in the American League Central and among the worst performing teams in Major League Baseball so far this year.

“He has mostly worked as a starter in the minors but has largely been kept in a long relief role in the majors. The Twins will probably put him in that role as well,” McDonald added, noting that scheduled Twins starters Simeon Woods Richardson, Connor Prielipp and Joe Ryan are all likely to need some significant relief in the coming games. “There’s a decent chance of needing a long man at some point in that stretch, which is perhaps part of the appeal in adding Gómez.”

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