Yankees release 26-year old pitcher halfway through Tommy John recovery
This one is a little bit painful.
Yankees release 26-year old pitcher halfway through Tommy John recovery originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . It's not exactly clear why the New York Yankees did this.
But what is clear is that they released one of their minor league pitchers while he's only halfway through his recovery from Tommy John surgery. Certainly the assumption on social media is that it wouldn't have cost the Yanks much to keep him around and get the recovery to the finish line. But with Cole Ayers, that's not what happened.
Ayers is a 26-year old pitcher who has reached Double-A in the Yankees system. They drafted him in the 16th round of the 2021 MLB Draft out of Florida State at Manatee-Sarasota. Now, he shared in an Instagram post that the Yankees cut him loose.
"Unfortunately I was released from the Yankees this weekend," Ayers wrote. "6 months into Tommy John rehab. Baseball isn't always sunshine and rainbows.