{"id":95561,"date":"2025-09-20T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=95561"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:08:04","slug":"yankees-top-free-agent-breaks-silence-on-if-he-wants-to-stay-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=95561","title":{"rendered":"Yankees top free agent breaks silence on if he wants to stay in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yankees top free agent breaks silence on if he wants to stay in New York originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees have some massive free agency decisions to make during the offseason, most notably with outfielder Cody Bellinger. Bellinger has the opportunity to be a significant part of the long-term future in New York, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the organization doesn&#8217;t have some other decisions to make.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Among the other decisions the Yankees have to make, Luke Weaver is at the top of the list. The Yankees found a diamond in the rough with Weaver and can only hope that he&#8217;ll take a discounted deal for free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The question for Weaver will be centered around whether he wants to get paid as much as possible or return to New York, an awesome place to play with a historic franchise.<\/p>\n<h2>Luke Weaver makes free agent stance clear<\/h2>\n<p>When speaking on \u201cThe Show\u201d podcast, Weaver said that he wanted to stay in New York, adding that it&#8217;s a great place to play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, absolutely,&#8221; Weaver said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a place where you feel like, they always say, you pitch here, you can pitch anywhere. &#8230; That simply has truth to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>MLB insider pegs Yankees&#8217; rising star for &#8216;enormous raise&#8217; this offseason<\/p>\n<p>How Weaver throws in the postseason will likely have a significant impact on what the Yankees want to do with him in the future. He hasn&#8217;t been as great as he&#8217;s been for much of his career over the past few weeks, posting a 3.90 ERA. Unfortunately, his ERA has increased from 2.72 at the start of the month to 3.90 as of Sept. 18.<\/p>\n<p>While he hasn&#8217;t thrown the baseball that well recently, it&#8217;s also fair to suggest that he&#8217;s been great over the past year and a half, posting a 2.89 ERA a year ago with a 0.93 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>New York should value that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yankees top free agent finally breaks his silence on whether he wants to remain in New York or explore opportunities elsewhere in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":95562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[104,2004,1379,40,3743],"class_list":["post-95561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-luke-weaver","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-return-to-new-york"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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