BRADENTON, Fla. – Miguel Yajure and Roansy Contreras first met back in 2017. Yajure was rehabbing from Tommy John surgery and went down to the Yankees’ Dominican Academy for part of his rehab. Contreras, a still recently-signed 17-year-old, was part of the Yankees’ DSL team and got to talk to the 18-year-old who had already pitched stateside.
Yajure, being a little older, was almost always a Class level ahead of Contreras, so they didn’t spend much time together as teammates in their journey through the Yankees’ farm system. Last year, though, they were forever linked together by being two of the four players the Pirates got back in the Jameson Taillon trade.