{"id":87782,"date":"2025-09-04T01:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=87782"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:07:04","slug":"yankees-former-pitcher-misses-postseason-after-going-unsigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=87782","title":{"rendered":"Yankees\u2019 Former Pitcher Misses Postseason After Going Unsigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250903_153507_0000.png?w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250903_153507_0000.png?w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250903_153507_0000.png?w=1100&amp;quality=15&amp;strip=all 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250903_153507_0000.png?w=1350&amp;quality=35&amp;strip=all 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees\u2019 Former Pitcher Misses Postseason After Going Unsigned\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees moved on from Marcus Stroman a month ago, and no contender wanted to take the gamble. That silence has spoken louder than any headline. As of the first week of September, Stroman remains unsigned, which means he is ineligible to pitch in the 2025 postseason.<\/p>\n<p>For a league where September depth can often make the difference between heartbreak and a parade, the fact that Stroman\u2019s name never came up as a serious addition feels like a flashing red warning sign.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>A Market That Never Materialized<\/h2>\n<p>When the Yankees cut ties with Stroman on August 1, it wasn\u2019t hard to imagine a team in the playoff mix taking a flyer. After all, pitching attrition always defines the final two months of a season. Injuries mount, rotations wobble, and executives often scramble for veterans who can give them even four or five serviceable innings.<\/p>\n<p>But that market never developed for Stroman. His Yankees tenure ended with a 4.69 ERA in just 39 innings, most of it after returning from a knee injury that cost him nearly two months. The strikeout rate for 2025, 14.9%, was alarmingly low. The velocity dipped, the margin for error narrowed, and his signature sinker no longer induced ground balls at the elite rate that once made him so reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers didn\u2019t scare teams off by themselves. Plenty of contenders could\u2019ve lived with an aging arm who eats innings. What scared them off was the idea that Stroman\u2019s decline is more permanent than temporary.<\/p>\n<p>Look around the landscape, and the fit seemed obvious. The Dodgers have been scouring the waiver wire to cover injuries to their rotation. The Mariners watched Bryan Woo and George Kirby deal with inconsistencies in August. The Braves lost A.J. Smith-Shawver to Tommy John surgery and haven\u2019t had a reliable fifth starter all year. Even the Orioles and Phillies, two division leaders, quietly explored depth options as August wore on.<\/p>\n<p>Each of those clubs had an open lane to Stroman. None of them took it. That kind of across-the-board disinterest is unusual. In the past, big names with fading r\u00e9sum\u00e9s still found lifelines in late August. Justin Verlander landed in Houston under the old waiver rules. Yuli Gurriel played postseason games for Kansas City just last year. Stroman didn\u2019t even get a minor league showcase deal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>A Career at a Crossroads<\/h2>\n<p>For Stroman, 34, this moment is about more than missing October. It\u2019s about what comes next. He pitched more than 1,400 innings of 3.79 ERA ball across 11 seasons with Toronto, New York, and Chicago. He logged 29 starts with a 4.31 ERA as recently as 2024. That r\u00e9sum\u00e9 suggests he should still have a place in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>But front offices no longer operate on reputation. They look at declining strikeouts, reduced velocity, and mounting injuries, and they draw a conclusion: the pitcher who once thrived on guile and command has reached the end of that line.<\/p>\n<p>Stroman can still sign somewhere in September, but he\u2019ll only be auditioning for 2026. His postseason clock has stopped. And for contenders, the message has been clear\u2014whatever help they need, it won\u2019t come from Stroman.<\/p>\n<p>In a month when every extra arm is usually hoarded like gold, the fact that Stroman was left on the shelf may be the most damning verdict of all.<\/p>\n<p>Alvin Garcia Born in Puerto Rico, Alvin Garcia is a sports writer for Heavy.com who focuses on MLB. His work has appeared on FanSided, LWOS, NewsBreak, Athlon Sports, and Yardbarker, covering mostly MLB. More about Alvin Garcia<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Yankees<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Stroman went unsigned past August 31, making him ineligible for the MLB playoffs as contenders passed on the veteran arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":87783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees\u2019 Former Pitcher Misses Postseason After Going Unsigned - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=87782\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees\u2019 Former Pitcher Misses Postseason After Going Unsigned - 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