The Marlins continued to deal from their starting rotation on Tuesday as they traded left-hander Ryan Weathers to the Yankees for four Minor Leaguers.
The four prospects headed to Miami are outfielders Dillon Lewis and Brendan Jones, and infielders Dylan Jasso and Juan Matheus. Lewis and Jones check in at No. 14 and No. 15 on the Marlins’ Top 30 Prospects list, respectively. Jasso was New York’s No. 23 prospect at the time of the deal and lands right outside his new club’s rankings.
“We got a package of players that we thought was too good to pass up,” Marlins president of baseball operations Peter Bendix said Wednesday on a Zoom with reporters. “That’s really what it comes down to.”
Weathers is the second starter the Marlins have traded this month. They struck a deal with the Cubs on Wednesday that was headlined by right-hander Edward Cabrera. The Yanks were one of the teams the Marlins talked to about Cabrera before they dealt him to Chicago.
“I said this last time [we made a trade], it remains true: you’ve got to give something to get something,” Bendix said. “We feel really good about the pitchers that we still have in the organization, still feel really good about our depth, still feel really good about our 2026 rotation and beyond, and we were able to add a tremendous amount of talent to the organization.”
These two deals could open up space in Miami’s rotation for the club’s top two pitching prospects, left-handers Thomas White and Robby Snelling. White (the Marlins’ top prospect and the No. 22 prospect in baseball) and Snelling (No. 4, No. 51) are both among MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 prospects.
“That’s what we have Spring Training for,” Bendix said. “I know those guys have incredibly bright futures. When exactly their opportunity comes, I don’t know. But it’s our job to make sure we put them in a position to succeed, and then it’s their job to take advantage of the opportunity whenever it’s there.”
Jones, who possesses 65-grade speed, might have been the fastest player in the Yankees’ system. The 23-year-old has stolen 69 bases in 148 career Minor League games.
“[Jones is] a very well-rounded player,” Bendix said. “He’s a good defender in center field, puts the bat on the ball, makes good decisions. I think there’s a little bit more power to get to. He steals a lot of bases. There’s not much that he’s not good at, and I think that type of player has a lot of different ways that he can impact a Major League team.”
Lewis, 22, hit 21 home runs in 122 games across Single-A and High-A last season.
“I think his tools are really fantastic,” Bendix said. “He hits the ball incredibly hard. He’s incredibly fast. He’s an excellent, excellent center fielder already, and he’s just beginning to tap into what he can do. This is a player who came out of Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t know too much about Queens College before I was researching Dillon Lewis. He has tremendous athletic gifts, and he made improvement throughout the season.”
Lewis was teammates with Matheus, who collected 40 steals and a .741 OPS across those same two levels in 2025. The 21-year-old switch-hitting Matheus has a .396 on-base percentage in the Minors but only 12 home runs in 232 games.
“We think he’s a very good third baseman, somebody that can play shortstop as well, and is another player who just does a lot of things well,” Bendix said. “He doesn’t strike out. He steals a lot of bases. We think there’s emerging power there. He’s only 21, and it’s hard to find all of those ingredients in somebody who can play on the dirt, especially someone we think is a good defender there.”
The 23-year-old Jasso posted a .257/.326/.400 slash line over 127 games at Double-A last season.
“[He is] someone who we think really can hit, that’s the primary appeal for Dylan,” Bendix said. “He’s a corner infielder. Probably not as good of a defender as these other players, but still a good defender and someone we think can really impact the baseball and really can hit his way to the big leagues.”
The 26-year-old Weathers was a first-round pick by the Padres in the 2018 MLB Draft, and he was traded to the Marlins in 2023. He owns a career 4.93 ERA with 235 strikeouts over 281 innings. He has not made more than 18 starts in a season, which he did during his rookie season with San Diego. Weathers made only eight starts this past season due to a combination of injuries, including a left flexor muscle strain he sustained in Spring Training.
