Yankees Select Brendan Beck – MLB Trade Rumors
The Yankees introduced Thursday that they’ve chosen the contract of righty Brendan Beck from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Right-hander Yerry de los Santos was optioned to Triple-A following final night time’s recreation. New York already had a trio of 40-man roster vacancies. Their roster is now at 38.
Beck shall be with the membership for at present’s afternoon tilt towards the Rangers and will make his large league debut. veteran righty Paul Blackburn is slated to start out for the Yanks after Ryan Weathers was scratched because of sickness. Beck, a starter with the Yankees’ prime affiliate, may very well be a protracted reduction choice behind Blackburn, whose longest outing of the season has been three innings. Weathers will slot again into the rotation subsequent week, supervisor Aaron Boone instructed reporters final night time (link via ESPN’s Jorge Castillo). Weathers himself instructed the workforce’s beat that he acquired sick shortly after his final begin and wound up shedding 9 kilos in underneath 48 hours (via SNY’s Chelsea Janes), so he’ll understandably be pushed again just a few days as he regains power.
The 27-yr-outdated Beck — the youthful brother of Giants righty Tristan Beck — was the Yankees’ second-spherical pick of Stanford again in 2021. He’s a delicate-tossing righty with plus command whose professional profession has been marred by accidents. Beck required Tommy John surgical procedure not lengthy after being drafted after which missed all the 2024 marketing campaign because of one other elbow surgical procedure.
Beck returned from that second elbow process in 2025 and delivered a terrific season between Double-A and Triple-A, combining for 131 1/3 innings with a 3.36 ERA, a 23.6% strikeout charge and a 6.9% stroll charge. He’s had an excellent begin to his 2026 season, serving up a 5.11 ERA in 37 frames, however almost all of the injury towards him to date got here in a pair of nightmare outings that noticed him yield seven and eight runs. He’s held opponents to 2 or fewer earned runs in 4 of seven begins this yr and is coming off a powerful seven-inning outing towards the Blue Jays’ prime affiliate, the place he is held his opponents to a pair of runs on 5 hits and a stroll with 4 strikeouts.
The Beck brothers, whose mom was born in England and whose grandfather was born in Wales, pitched for Great Britain’s workforce on this yr’s World Baseball Classic. Brendan tossed 4 shutout innings with 4 strikeouts. This is his first profession choice to the 40-man roster, so 2026 would be the first of three minor league choice years for him. The Yankees can management Beck for no less than six years past the present marketing campaign.