Ryan Weathers ready to put together healthy season and follow in his dad’s Yankees footsteps

The Yankees are expected to open the 2026 season shorthanded in the starting rotation, so it is imperative the pitcher they just acquired has put his own injury questions behind him.

Promising lefty Ryan Weathers was obtained from the Marlins earlier this week for four minor-league prospects after making just eight starts last season due to two lengthy stints on the injured list with forearm and lat issues.

Weathers, the 26-year-old son of former Yankees hurler David Weathers, fittingly said he learned of the trade shortly after completing an offseason bullpen session.

“I’m feeling great. The bullpen the other day is the best I’ve probably felt in a year and a half. I feel really healthy,” Weathers said Thursday on a Zoom call. “I really did a dive and worked … on figuring out how to lengthen my lat out and lengthen my back out.

“We really adjusted a lot of my lifting patterns, we really adjusted my mobility and my prep work. And I think my arm is reaping the benefits right now and I’m just excited to see where the season goes.”

With Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodón and Clarke Schmidt recuperating from injuries, Weathers will get a chance to earn a spot at the back end of the Yankees starting rotation in April alongside Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Luis Gil and Will Warren.

Weathers began last season on the IL with the flexor strain before making his season debut May 14 with five innings of one-run ball against the Cubs.

He lasted just five starts before landing on the shelf again in early June with the strained lat, missing three more months before returning for three September outings.

But the Yankees obviously saw enough potential in the hard-throwing southpaw to swing the deal following a relatively quiet offseason.

Ryan Weathers, the 26-year-old son of former Yankees hurler David Weathers, was traded from the Marlins to the Bombers, just like his father was in the past. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

“I’m just looking forward to putting the pinstripes on. It’s an incredible honor when an organization of this caliber wants me to pitch for them. It’s an unbelievable honor,” Weathers said. “I had just finished up my bullpen, and I got back to the house, and I have a little travel sauna. So I was in the sauna … and I literally probably sat on my couch for two seconds and I got a phone call from [Marlins president] Peter Bendix that I had been traded to the Yankees and then everything kind of ensued from there.

“I talked to [Yankees GM Brian] Cashman, I talked to Boonie [manager Aaron Boone], and just pure shock. Like, I couldn’t believe that the New York Yankees were a team that I could ever play for, so I’m really excited.”

David Weathers’ 19-year MLB career featured a brief two-season stop with the Yankees, joining Joe Torre’s squad in a trade-deadline deal with the Marlins for pitcher Mark Hutton in 1996 en route to the World Series title.

David Weathers throws a pitch during the Yankees’ World Series-clinching Game 6 win over the Braves in 1996. Nury Herandez / New York Post

He was traded to Cleveland the following June for outfielder Chad Curtis.

Ryan Weathers was not born until 1999, so most of his memories growing up around the game came during his dad’s six years with the Reds from 2005-09.

“Obviously, we’ve kind of had weird, similar paths to how we got to New York, both going from the Marlins to the Yankees,” Ryan Weathers said. “He still says in ’96, when he got that big punch-out [of Braves catcher Javy Lopez in Game 6 of the World Series], it was the loudest he’s ever heard Yankee Stadium.”

Weathers, who has posted a 3.74 ERA in 24 starts for the Marlins over the past two seasons, now will get the chance to be a part of the team trying to get the Yanks back to the World Series to try to earn the organization’s first championship since 2009.

Asked what pitching adjustments Boone and pitching coach Matt Blake have told him to expect to make, Weathers replied “probably more of a usage adjustment” to utilize his two-seam fastball more to open up the strike zone for his four-seamer and his sweeper.

“Whatever the Yankees want me to do, my job is to throw the baseball whenever they give it to me in whatever capacity that is for however long that is,” Weathers said. “So I’m just looking forward to learning from these guys. You look at the rotation, you look at the bullpen guys, there’s no excuse for me not to pick their brains and learn from some of the best.

“And obviously the pinstripes, the Yankees, obviously, [are] the Yankees. It’s just a cool environment. I’ve liked playing there on the road. I got to play there with San Diego and with Miami. I love the environment there. I love the fans and how into the game they are. It’s the big leagues. I’m excited.”