Fourteen months, two elbow surgeries, one roster spot
July 3, 2025. That was the last time Clarke Schmidt threw a pitch that counted in the big leagues. The Yankees recalled the right-hander from his rehab assignment on Wednesday, ending a wait that ran through an entire season.
Schmidt spent all of it on the 60-day injured list. Tommy John surgery again, the second of his career, at 30. Plenty of pitchers never come back from the first one.
He was pitching well when the elbow gave out: 4-4 with a 3.32 ERA across 14 starts.
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The rotation is full, so the bullpen it is
New York’s playoff rotation looks settled, which leaves Schmidt working out of the bullpen. He has barely done that job before. It does keep the innings down on a rebuilt elbow heading into October, and that matters more right now than where he slots in.
Five rehab outings between Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Double-A Somerset gave the Yankees seven innings, six hits, three runs. Nobody in the building is panicking over that line.
Six partial seasons in pinstripes have brought him 97 appearances, 67 of them starts, 23 wins, 24 losses, two saves and a 3.82 ERA over 393 and one-third innings.
Cabrera hits .288 in Triple-A and gets DFA’d anyway
Somebody had to go. The Yankees designated Oswaldo Cabrera for assignment, closing out a run in the organization that started when he signed as an international free agent in July 2015. The 27-year-old utility man has never worn another uniform.
Since 2022 he has played 304 big-league games and hit .232 with 20 home runs and 95 RBIs. This year gave him three appearances and nine hitless at-bats.
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre version of Cabrera looked like a different player: .288, 19 home runs, 69 RBIs in 122 games. A club chasing a title had other plans.
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