Ryan Weathers Could Excel With The Yankees

A pitching strom is coming to the Bronx in 2026.

On January 13th, the Miami Marlins traded Ryan Weathers to the New York Yankees in exchange for four prospects. The trade to New York marks the third team that Weathers will be on in the majors.

Ryan Weathers is the son of former Yankee pitcher David Weathers, who was part of the 1996 World Series winning team. 

After being acquired by the Yankees, many fans took to X to discuss his high school stats. Even though Weathers is 26-years-old and several years removed from walking across the graduation stage, his high school stat line is still talked about today – and it may be one of the best stat lines for a pitcher.

Weathers was a two-way player for Loretto High School, but it was pitching that put him on the map. In 2018, the 6-foot-2 standing lefty went undefeated at 11-0 with an astounding 0.09 ERA in 76 innings, striking out 148. I am unsure what is more impressive: the average of two strikeouts per-inning or the fact his ERA+ was 4222 due to his ERA being so low.

Now to get a 0.09 ERA you need to have 0.8 earned runs allowed per-inning pitched. His ERA+ was off the charts, he was statistically over 4,000% better than the average high school pitcher during that 2018 season.

Since his MLB debut things have been slightly different for Weathers since making it to the bigs. In 70 games, which 55 have come as starts, Weathers is 12-23 with a 4.93 ERA. It is important to note though that Weathers has posted a 3.74 ERA in 177.1 innings over the course of the past two seasons in 24 games started for Miami. His pWAR over that span is a combined 2.7, with a WHIP just above 1.200 during that time.

Weathers, who had a very rough stint with the Padres to begin his career, has come around very and built up a respectful pitching line for himself over the last two years.

It will be interesting how he will be used by Matt Blake and Aaron Boone, I myself foresee Weathers being a back-end of the rotation guy and then being moved to the pen as long reliever once Cole, Rodon and Schmidt come back.

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