Yankees' Will Warren Making Small Tweak With Big Upside

With a good — not great — first season in the books, Warren is still making the necessary tweaks to have an even better year. According to the Daily News' Gary Phillips, Warren told him he'll be throwing from the third base side of the mound. It's where he threw in college at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has been pitching from the first base side in the big leagues.

"I think it's a healthy attack angle," Warren told Phillips. "It's a little sharper. Righties, it kind of feels like I'm coming at them. Lefties might feel like the ball is just way out there, especially like a backdoor sweeper, backdoor curveball, and then just making it super sharp going into them."

Warren says it may not seem like much at first, but he believes it will make a big difference in how batters view pitches coming out of his hand.

"I mean, it doesn't feel like it's that big, but you move all the way across, it's 17 inches or something like that," Warren continued. "It'll mess your lines up a little bit. So I'm just making sure those are sharp, that way I can get ahead and have success."

The Yankees are likely hoping this tweak helps Warren. They need all the quality innings they can get to start the 2026 season.

Spring Debut

Warren debuted his tweak against the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2.2 innings with 49 pitches thrown, he struck out four while generating five swings-and-misses. He allowed one earned run on four hits and no walks.

Warren had a handful of hard contact on three of the eight batters who put the ball in play, though. Jesus Sanchez hit a 95.6 MPH single, and Daulton Varsho hit a 109.5 MPH triple. Both occurred in Warren's first inning of work. In the second inning, Brandon Valenzuela scorched a 105.3 MPH single.

Warren's hardest hit pitch was his fastball. The Jays had an average exit velocity of 90 MPH against it.

To learn more about the Yankees from Spring Training and beyond, subscribe to All Yankees Talk, where new episodes are featured twice a week!

Make sure to bookmark Yankees On SI to get all your daily New York Yankees news, interviews, breakdowns and more!