Yankees Re-Sign Tim Hill To One-Year Deal

The Yankees are bringing back a known quantity for their bullpen. Left-hander Tim Hill is returning on a one-year, $2.25MM deal, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The pact includes a $2.5MM club option for the 2028 season. Hill is a client of Paragon Sports International. Hill, who will turn 37 in Spring Training, has pitched for the Yankees since midway through the 2024 season. The soft-tossing lefty is primarily a ground ball specialist. He has a 63.2% ground ball rate for his career, and since the start of 2024, over two-thirds of batted balls against Hill have been on the ground. That’s easily the best mark among qualified relievers in that span. For the first two years of his Yankees tenure, Hill backed that up with solid run prevention. In 111 innings with New York from 2024-25, he delivered a 2.68 earned run average, held opposing hitters to a .604 OPS, and posted a sharp 5.7% walk rate. Hill’s 44.0% hard-hit rate in that time was not great, but thanks to the gaudy ground ball numbers, he did a good job of keeping the ball in the yard. He allowed only ten home runs in that span with New York, a rate of 0.81 homers per nine innings. More to come. View Comments (6)