Yankees Sign RHP Drake Fellows to Minor-League Deal

Overview

• MLB insider Jon Heyman reported Friday that New York signed right-hander Drake Fellows to a minor-league contract.
• Fellows, a 2019 sixth-round pick out of Vanderbilt, reached Triple-A with Pittsburgh and has not made his MLB debut.
• He split 2025 between starting and relieving, recording 94 strikeouts and 46 walks over 112.1 Triple-A innings, with a 27% strikeout rate and higher velocity in relief.
• His top pitch is a heavy, bullet-spin slider that produced a reported 52% whiff rate, aligning with the Yankees’ interest in relief-oriented swing-and-miss profiles.
• The low-cost move adds depth as New York targets projectable arms following pickups of RHPs Cade Winquest and Bradley Hanner and the departure of reliever Mark Leiter Jr., with Devin Williams also leaving.