YANKS JUST SIGNED AN EXTRA ARM!

The Yankees are at it again, adding more intrigue to their Minor League bullpen with the signing of right-hander Jordany Ventura. 

According to their transactions page, Ventura, a former Mets farmhand, is heading over to the Bronx after a solid 2024 season in Double-A. Sure, he’s been loyal to the Mets for his entire pro career, but after a breakout year where he posted a 2.96 ERA with 55 strikeouts over 48.2 innings, who can blame him for swapping orange and blue for pinstripes?

Injuries may have kept him on a pitch count, but when he was healthy, Ventura was making hitters wish they’d stuck to golf. With a 31.4% strikeout rate and zero runs allowed across his five outings in Double-A—go ahead, read that again—he showed he’s got what it takes to be a multi-inning reliever who doesn’t just eat innings but devours them.

But let’s not kid ourselves here. With the way our Yankees current rotation has been lighting it up—and by “lighting it up,” I mean for the other team's runs—maybe the Yankees should just skip the formalities and rush Ventura straight into the starting rotation. I kid, I kid, but you know what I mean. 

The Yankees have a knack for turning promising arms into reliable assets, and Ventura, now 24, could very well be their next under-the-radar success story. Yanks like the lightning in the bottle signings. Maybe this is one of them. Expect him to join the Double-A Somerset Patriots and bring his strikeout swagger with him—unless, of course, they decide to fast-track him to save us all from the fifth-inning bullpen parade.

So, while Yankee fans wait for those headline-grabbing acquisitions like Juan Soto, keep an eye on Ventura. He might just turn into the weapon that makes opposing batters nervous and gives fans one more reason to cheer—or at least smirk knowingly when the Mets ask, “Hey, where’d that guy come from?”  One can dream.