Ryan Weathers Injury Update: Yankees Announce Diagnosis After Starter’s Exit

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Yankees starter Ryan Weathers exited the Blue Jays game early with a trainer, raising immediate questions about his injury status.

Yankees left-hander Ryan Weathers walked off the mound in the fourth inning of Saturday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, and by the fifth inning the Yankees announced the diagnosis for Weathers..

The Yankees announced, “Ryan Weathers left the game with left forearm discomfort and will undergo imaging today.”

The timing is not exactly ideal. New York is locked in a tight AL East race, and Weathers had quietly turned into one of the rotation’s most reliable arms during the stretch run.

Weathers left after his final pitch to Myles Straw, exiting without a warmup toss and walking off alongside a trainer, according to Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch. Yerry de los Santos entered in relief.

Weathers took the mound sitting at 5-7 with a 3.56 ERA over a career-high 134 innings across 24 starts this season, according to MLB.com. He had been especially sharp lately, tossing 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball against this same Toronto club on August 16 and allowing just three earned runs across his previous 31.2 innings, a stretch that pushed his ERA below 3.00.

That surge followed a mechanical adjustment. Weathers scaled back a four-seam fastball that had been getting hit hard and leaned harder on his sinker, slider and changeup to generate more ground balls, a shift that helped stabilize a season that opened shakily.

New York Yankees’ Rotation Depth Faces a Test

The left-hander has dealt with recurring arm and lower-body injuries in recent seasons, including a finger strain that sidelined him roughly three months in 2024 and separate forearm and lat issues with the Marlins that limited him to just eight starts in 2025. That injury history adds weight to Saturday’s early exit, with the Yankees’ medical staff now left to determine whether this is another setback or something more minor. A club update on Weathers’ status is expected in the coming days.

A lengthy absence would strain a rotation already thin on healthy arms. Gerrit Cole, Cam Schlittler and Carlos Rodón, back from elbow inflammation, have recently carried the bulk of the workload alongside Weathers and Will Warren. Max Fried remains on the 15-day injured list with an elbow bone bruise, and Clarke Schmidt, still working back from elbow and UCL trouble, is expected to be limited to relief work even once healthy.

New York entered Saturday at 73-55, sitting second in the American League East, with a playoff berth squarely in view. Losing a starter who turned into a dependable mid-rotation piece would test a staff that has already absorbed multiple pitching injuries this season. If Weathers lands on the injured list, manager Aaron Boone’s short-term options include leaning further on Warren or calling up a Triple-A arm such as Elmer Rodríguez or Brendan Beck for a spot start.

Weathers’ Path to the Yankees

New York acquired Weathers from the Miami Marlins in a January trade, sending outfielders Dillon Lewis and Brendan Jones along with infielders Dylan Jasso and Juan Matheus to Miami, according to the team’s official trade announcement.

Weathers was the seventh overall pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, by the San Diego Padres, and he made his major league debut during the 2020 postseason as one of the youngest pitchers to appear in a playoff game. He is the son of former big league pitcher David Weathers, who spent parts of two seasons with the Yankees in the 1990s.

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