The Yankees will have to reduce their lineup to 30 gamers by the time the regular season is expected to start on July 23 for a 60-game schedule.
In other moves, the Yankees also signed catcher Max McDowell to a minor-league agreement, launched and re-signed reducer Dan Otero to a minor-league contract, and put Luis Severino (Tommy John surgery) on the 60-day injured list. The 29-year-old Duffy, who won a World Series with the Giants in 2014 and is a lifetime.282 hitter, had remained in the Rangers camp this spring.
Among the potential customers consisted of on the 60-man roster are pitchers Deivi Garcia, Luis Gil, Clarke Schmidt, Michael King, Alexander Vizcaino and Luis Medina, infielder Kyle Holder and outfielder Estevan Florial.
The gamer pool includes all 39 gamers on their 40-man lineup, plus 19 additionals, consisting of infielder Matt Duffy, who signed a minor-league agreement with the club previously on Sunday. Lineups had actually to be submitted by 4 p.m. Sunday.
The Yankees have set their roster for summer season camp, using 58 of the 60 offered areas with players set to report to The Bronx on Wednesday.
Heres a take a look at the preliminary lineup:
Infielders (10 ): Miguel Andujar, Matt Duffy, Thairo Estrada, Mike Ford, Kyle Holder, DJ LeMahieu, Gleyber Torres, Gio Urshela, Luke Voit, Tyler Wade.
Outfielders (9 ): Estevan Florial, Clint Frazier, Brett Gardner, Zack Granite, Rosell Herrera, Aaron Hicks, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Tauchman.
Pitchers (33 ): Albert Abreu, Domingo Acevedo, Daniel Alvarez, Luis Avilan, Zack Britton, Luis Cessa, Aroldis Chapman, Gerrit Cole, Deivi Garcia, Luis Gil, Chad Green, David Hale, J.A. Happ, Ben Heller, Jonathan Holder, Tommy Kahnle, Michael King, Brooks Kriske, Jonathan Loaisiga, Tyler Lyons, Luis Medina, Jordan Montgomery, Nick Nelson, Dan Otero, Adam Ottavino, James Paxton, Adonis Rosa, Clarke Schmidt, Masahiro Tanaka, Nick Tropeano, Alexander Vizcaino, Miguel Yajure, Tony Zych.
Catchers (6 ): Kyle Higashioka, Chris Iannetta, Erik Kratz, Max McDowell, Gary Sanchez, Josh Thole.
