Deivi Garcia is feeling healthy, throwing hard again and working on a relatively new pitch. The early days of spring training for the talented but work-in-progress righty have gone well.
The fall has been as sharp as the rise. Back in 2019 and ’20, Garcia was shooting through the Yankees system as a Dominican who often was compared to Pedro Martinez — and not just because of his 5-feet-9 stature. Garcia, with a mid-90s fastball, knee-buckling curveball and effective changeup, blazed his way to not just a major league debut but a playoff start in 2020.
Garcia absorbed more hooks than he threw last season. With mechanical issues, decreased velocity and a control problem, he sported a 10.38 ERA in seven Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre starts to begin his 2022 campaign. Then came the mental and physical reset at the Yankees’ Tampa facilities. He spent late July through September at Double-A and Triple-A, without much obvious improvement.
The now 23-year-old surprised in throwing a few cutters, an offering he began to learn last spring and one Blake said would be “big” for him. Several Yankees pitchers, including Clarke Schmidt and Nestor Cortes, have added cutters in the past few years.
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