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The 38-year-old southpaw was released by the Braves during the final stages of spring training once it became clear that he wouldn’t crack the team’s Opening Day bullpen. Diekman pitched for nine teams in his big league career (Phillies, Rangers, Diamondbacks, Royals, Athletics, Red Sox, White Sox, Rays and Mets), compiling a 3.91 ERA, 1.396 WHIP and a 764/358 K/BB ratio over 602 1/3 innings. He notched 27 victories and accumulated 19 saves. We wish him the best of luck in the next chapter of his life.

Quite the interesting night. Caballero’s homer was a 357-footer into the Crawford Boxes at Daikin Park. According to Statcast, it was the lone park in which it would been a homer. Before that, Caballero had a slow roller go for a single, stole his 10th base of the year and was then caught stealing third before Trent Grisham homered. He was caught stealing again in a tie game in the seventh, but it turned out fine for the Yankees since the next four batters went single, walk, walk, walk. Caballero has seven hits the last three games, pushing him up to .280/.316/.430 for the season. That’s not great news for those awaiting Anthony Volpe’s return, but Volpe still figures to be given the opportunity to claim the shortstop job.

The Yankees were up 2-1 going into the sixth, but Carlos Correa led off the inning with a homer to tie it. If Weathers could have finished the inning from there, he likely would have wound up the winner, as the Yankees scored three times in the top of the seventh. However, he was replaced by Fernando Cruz before that could happen. Weathers struck out four and walked none. He has a sterling 40/8 K/BB to go along with his 3.21 ERA in 33 2/3 innings.

This would have been a nice night for Burrows in another park, but he gave up homers of 363 and 357 feet. Statcast said the first would have left 12 ballparks and the second was only a homer in Daikin. Burrows still did bring his ERA down to 6.25. He’ll probably next face the Orioles on Thursday, unless the Astros want to push him back to Friday against the Red Sox.

Wells matched his previous season totals with one homer and two RBI tonight. The homer also gave him just his fifth run scored in 22 games. He’s batting .188/.338/.297 in 80 plate appearances.

Correa’s three balls in play tonight came in at 107, 102 and 104 mph, giving his 38 percent hard-hit rate a boost. The homer off Ryan Weathers was his second of the year. He’s back in a considerably better run and RBI situation in Houston than he was in Minnesota, but as only a modest source of homers and a zero in steals, his fantasy ceiling remains rather low.

Rea was awful, giving up six hits and four walks while seeing 10 balls off the bat register as hard contact. The right-hander was coming off a strong outing against the Phillies, but to say he didn’t have the same kind of success is quite the understatement. He needed 92 pitches to get those 10 outs, and his ERA rose to 4.61 in the process. He’ll try and bounce back to his previous form against the Diamondbacks on Friday.