The Yankees have finally found the fifth member of their rotation.
The team and Marcus Stroman agreed to a two-year, $37 million contract that has a vesting option for a third year, The Post’s Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman reported on Thursday night.
The deal is pending a physical.
Stroman broke the development with a pair of photos on Instagram, with one an old picture and another with Stroman’s jersey and hat edited to reflect Yankees gear.
“I’m a New York Yankee,” he wrote in his Instagram Story.
The 32-year-old right-hander, a Long Island native, is coming off an All-Star season with the Cubs, though he tailed off in the second half and missed six weeks with hip inflammation.
After trading for superstar outfielder Juan Soto but missing out on Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Yankees were left with a hole in their rotation.
They had interest in the top two arms remaining on the free-agent market, Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery, and also in Dylan Cease and others on the trade market.
But with the price for those pitchers steep – either in dollars or prospects – the Yankees pivoted and landed Stroman to join a rotation with Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodon, Nestor Cortes and Clarke Schmidt.
It’s possible the Yankees could still pursue Snell, Montgomery or Cease, but on Thursday they made sure they filled the hole in their rotation with a veteran pitcher.
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