Whereas the Yankees beat the Mariners 11-5 Monday evening, the first focus within the aftermath of the sport was not on the rating however on the standing of infielder Oswaldo Cabrera. As famous by Greg Joyce of the New York Post, Cabrera went down whereas making an attempt to attain on a sac fly on account of an ankle harm and ultimately needed to be loaded onto a stretcher so an ambulance may take him off the sphere and transport him to an area hospital.
On Tuesday, the Yankees introduced that Cabrera has been positioned on the 10-day injured listing with a left ankle fracture. DJ LeMahieu has been reinstated from the IL because the corresponding transfer.
“I believe everybody understands it was a fairly critical state of affairs,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned of the harm, as relayed by Joyce. “Simply praying for our man Cabby tonight and hoping for the very best. Belief that he’s in good palms as he goes by the evening. Clearly an important recreation in plenty of methods, however plenty of guys feeling for his or her teammate, who’s the very best of them.”
LeMahieu was beforehand anticipated to get common taking part in time at second base in the intervening time, but it surely’s potential that Cabrera’s harm shifts that expectation. Whereas he hit simply .204/.269/.259 in his age-35 marketing campaign final 12 months, LeMahieu provides a prolonged observe report as an average-or-better hitter within the majors and hit fairly properly throughout his rehab project on the minor league degree. That’s probably sufficient to make him the Yankees’ high infielder after Anthony Volpe and Paul Goldschmidt because of the slim pickings. Jorbit Vivas is at the moment holding issues down at second base however has hit simply .158/.304/.211 in 10 video games on the place. Pablo Reyes and Oswald Peraza are each on the roster as properly, however Reyes is hitting an much more lackluster .174/.240/.174. Peraza has slashed a extra respectable .204/.278/.388 in 54 plate appearances this 12 months, and may very well be platooned with the lefty-swinging Vivas at whichever place LeMahieu doesn’t play.
Outdoors of the gamers at the moment within the lively roster combine, the pickings are slim. Braden Shewmake provides a left-handed various to Vivas and is already on the 40-man roster, however is hitting simply .197 with a 94 wRC+ at Triple-A this 12 months. Andrew Velazquez and Max Burt are each within the group as potential upper-level depth choices, however Velazquez has by no means hit a lot in both the majors or minors whereas Burt has simply 47 video games at Triple-A below his belt as a 28-year-old. Maybe the Yankees may search for an exterior addition to their infield, however any gamers obtainable at this level within the calendar would probably be comparatively low-impact choices.
