inside the yankees The Yankees might try a minors-to-playoffs jump for Carlos Lagrange. Ryan Weathers pulled off the wildest one ever: ‘I blacked out’ By Greg Joyce Published Sep. 25, 2026, 6:20 a.m. ET Ryan Weathers pitches during the Yankees' game against the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 22, 2026. Jason Szenes for the NY Post If Ryan Weathers is somehow able to make it back in time from a forearm injury to be on the Yankees’ roster for the AL wild-card series, despite not pitching in a game in over a month — more on that in a minute — it would still not be his craziest road to the postseason.
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That came back in 2020, when he pulled off a jump that would make what the Yankees are debating doing with Carlos Lagrange seem like nothing.
Weathers, two years after being drafted out of high school, essentially went from Low-A to the Padres to make his MLB debut in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Dodgers.
“I mean, I blacked out when I went out there,” Weathers said with a chuckle earlier this week. “I wasn’t expecting, that year, to be making my debut in the playoffs. But it was a lot of fun.”
