Additions

six starters, and you get rid of one of your relievers that can give you distance, it puts you in a bind,” Girardi said. “If the commissioner would let me add another man on the roster and have 26, I would really think about it. But I called, and he said no.”

Making an unexpected playoff push in the first full season of a youth movement, the Yankees have turned over more than 20 percent of their roster in two weeks. They added third baseman Todd Frazier and relief pitchers David Robertson and Tommy Kahnle in a July 18 trade with the Chicago White Sox.

Gray was an All-Star in 2015, when he won 14 games for the second consecutive season and finished third in AL Cy Young Award voting. The 27-year-old right-hander has been slowed by injuries, a strained upper back and forearm that limited him to 22 starts last year, and a strained lat muscle that delayed his first start this season to May 2. He is 6-5 with a 3.43 ERA in 16 starts this season, including 4-2 with a 1.37 ERA in his last six outings.

“I kind of missed the second half of last year, and coming back, I missed most of spring training, so I just wasn’t able to get the repetitions that a starting pitcher needs,” he said. “I really feel like in the last month, the last two months, it’s starting to click and I’m starting to — and you’ll see — I’ve started to feel the baseball again and make it do the things that I’ve always been able to make it do, make it move a little bit, more one way or the other, and that’s something that I’ve always been able to do on the mound.”

Gray makes $3,575,000 and is not eligible for free agency until after the 2019 season. He replaces Michael Pineda, who had Tommy John surgery on July 18 and will be eligible for free agency after the World Series.

Gray’s given name is Sonny Douglas Gray.