{"id":11072,"date":"2018-01-16T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:36:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:36:40","slug":"yankees-sign-wade-leblanc-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/01\/16\/yankees-sign-wade-leblanc-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sign Wade LeBlanc to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/wadeleblanc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11073\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/wadeleblanc.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/wadeleblanc-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Yankees have signed left handed pitcher Wade LeBlanc to a minor league contract. LeBlanc&#8217;s deal includes an invitation to Spring Training.<\/p>\n<p>LeBlanc, 33, appeared in a career high 50 games last season with the Pirates finishing with a 4.50 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP to go along with a 96 ERA+ and a 5-2 record. He has appeared in 176 big league games while making 79 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the Pirates of last season, the Yankees have no need for him to start but would not mind if he could be a left handed option out of the bullpen. He could push Chasen Shreve for a spot in the Yankees bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>LeBlanc&#8217;s deal includes an opt out after Spring Training which could force the Yankees hand or even lead to a later transaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free agent Wade LeBlanc has agreed to a minor league deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/yankees?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#yankees<\/a>. It includes an invite to big league camp and an out clause at the end of spring training. He\u2019ll earn $1M if he makes the big club.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcrasnick\/status\/953368114661609473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Yankees bullpen is already considered a strength with Aroldis Chapman, Dellin Betances, David Robertson, Chad Green, Tommy Kahnle assured of spots. Shreve who held a 3.77 ERA. a 120 ERA+ and a 4-1 record last season is the most likely player to be affected by this signing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees have signed left handed pitcher Wade LeBlanc to a minor league contract. LeBlanc&#8217;s deal includes an invitation to Spring Training. LeBlanc, 33, appeared in a career high 50 games last season with the Pirates finishing with a 4.50 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP to go along with a 96 ERA+ and a 5-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,38,763],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-new-york-yankees","10":"tag-wade-leblanc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11074,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/11074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}