Yankees shortstop Troy Tulowitzki exited Tuesday’s game with a left calf strain and will “almost certainly” head to the injured list, manager Aaron Boone tells reporters (Twitter link via the YES Network’s Jack Curry). If and when Tulo does hit the IL, he’ll bring the Yankees’ total to a staggering 11 players on the shelf, including two left-side infielders in as many days. Third baseman Miguel Andujar went on the injured list due to a labrum tear yesterday, and with both him and Tulowitzki out of the picture, the Yankees will be relying on a mix of Gleyber Torres, DJ LeMahieu and Tyler Wade around the infield. Young Thairo Estrada is already on the 40-man roster and could get a call to help provide some depth while Tulowitzki is out. There’s no firm timetable for Tulo just yet.
Some more notable health updates from around baseball…
- Diamondbacks infielder Jake Lamb pulled up lame while legging out a double in this afternoon’s game, and the early diagnosis is a strained left quadriceps, per The Athletic’s Zach Buchanan (Twitter link). Lamb will undergo an MRI tomorrow to further evaluate the severity of the injury. If Lamb is to miss time with the injury, the D-backs can increase Christian Walker’s role at first base and perhaps mix in Alex Avila a bit as well. The 28-year-old Lamb has gotten off to a slow start in 2019 as he looks to rebound from a 2018 campaign that was ruined by shoulder troubles.
- Brewers righty Jeremy Jeffress is slated to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A San Antonio tomorrow, tweets MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy. He’s been sidelined with some weakness in his shoulder but hasn’t been diagnosed with any structural damage or significant injury. Jeffress has been building strength since being slowed down in mid-March and will test out his shoulder over a series of appearances with San Antonio. President of baseball operations David Stearns recently suggested that mid or late April could be a reasonable return date for Jeffress, whose importance to the team only increased with the revelation that Corey Knebel will miss the entire 2019 season as he recovers from Tommy John surgery.
- The Angels announced yesterday that a CT scan revealed “chronic changes to the elbow” in left-hander Andrew Heaney. Ominous as that sounds, Heaney will be cleared to resume a throwing program within the next week to 10 days. He’s also undergoing a cortisone shot to help combat the discomfort in his elbow. The good news for the Angels is that there seemingly wasn’t any evidence of structural damage regarding Heaney’s ulnar collateral ligament. Heaney has yet to appear in a game this season and was limited to just 1 2/3 innings early in Spring Training, so even once he does resume a throwing program, he’ll still be several weeks from surfacing as an option in the Halos’ rotation.
Tulo got hurt??? I’m shocked, he’s typically such a durable player
I was about to make the same sarcastic post and then I saw yours. Spot on
Jeez. I thought Tulo might last longer this year. He needs to hang ‘em up.
Because he had Tulo, Cashman passed on Machado and others.
Yes because if the $500k they spent on Tulo that really ate up the budget for $300m+
Didi will be back in June and they have guys who can hold down the fort until then. Did not need to spend for Machado.
Hal appreciates your understanding. Can he interest you in a $2,500 Legends seat?
I just hope Tulo can get healthy in time for his sure to be gong show reception in Toronto. Sad to see a guy who hits well in thin air only go down.
I hope Tulo can get healthy in time for his next injury. I mean, it’s probably only 2 weeks away before he hurts his wrist or something.
It’s an absolute shame, because before injuries became a major issue for him, he looked like a lock for the Hall of Fame.
You know what everyone will say…”It’s because he played on turf in Toronto and it ruined his career.”
And yet he could literally do everything but die and we’d still be paying his lofted salary. One instance where it pays to do absolutely nothing!
Cashman’s banged up offseason is sure paying off.
good news for Heaney. get better sooner.
Good news. But problems is Eppler acted as if pitchers would be healthy. Bringing in fringe pitchers like Cahill and Harvey don’t exactly inspire confidence and certainly don’t stack up well against the better teams. They need a solid 1-2 punch in their rotation.
LA has had bad luck in recent years with injuries to their pitching. Injuries are part of the game but still 🙁
Harvey and Cahill are about the only things that look good for the Halos right now.
Actually the bullpen has the second lowest era in baseball.
Yeah , you’re right. The pitching staff as a whole has been pretty good save Stratton. Just can’t score runs right now.
Phi – for this year? Is that really a thing after 6 games?
I expected tulo to last 10 games before he got hurt. I was wrong smh
You weren’t too far off, though, he just needed to play 6 more games and then get hurt.
Tulo just proved Jays management correct for cutting him loose. Surprised he made it out of ST.
He’s looked solid when playing since he was aquired by us but he gets hurt by any little thing. The jays did what they had to do. We need to do the same with pillsbury
Both get hurt tying their shoes….
He’s played 4 games and 10 at bats.
Idk if it proved jays management anything they saved the league minimum off that deal. That’s not really a win in anyway. I guess they got their 40 man slot back if you wanna look for a win.
We don’t need no stinkin’ Machado! If old George were still with us, Yanks would have Harper and Machado.
Why did they trade for that albatross Stanton a year before this FA class. Here comes the commenters justifying what a steal Stanton was.
^Bingo. Steven is correct. Although I would have bet on Harper over Machado had the Stanton deal not happened.
Harper was never shaving his beard daily to play for the Chokees.
Steven, I like Stanton, but you have a point in that Cashman misread the free agent market.
They probably liked Stanton’s stoic professionalism over Harpchado’s as well.
Personally, I’ll take the better, younger players.
Lol are you hearing yourself???
The Angels solution to every problem for years has been a cortisone shot and get back to work.
Hopefully it works out better this time than it has for the other couple hundred pitchers that merely saw their injuries get worse and worse on this ‘bandaid & walk it off’ solution of the team
I’ve had “chronic changes” in my shoulders and elbows for years and it’s always meant progressing arthritis, not sure if their doctors are meaning it the same way here. Not much they can do about it aside from arthritis medications and operations from time to time to clean up the joints if that is what it is.
Better muscle activation routine before work. But Angels hire doofus for head trainer so they are doomed.
Jays fans are not surprised. What’s the over/under on whether he’s back before the AS Break?
The over/under for games played was 52 for the year. I took the under. Looking like a good bet right now.
Just 52 games? The Yankees kept saying that he was healthy and moving better than he had in years and that they expected him to be their shortstop all season. Presumably they planned on trading Didi when he returns? Guess it didn’t work out that way and if history is any clue, Tulo will not play much more this season.
He looked good because he wasn’t moving. Once he moves…. End of story.
I remember when they signed LeMahieu and I thought they had too many infielders. Definitely didn’t expect to be proven wrong *this* early.
Cashman was proud of the savings of getting Tulo to sign. Who wants to pay a player $180K per game when you can pay $550K for the entire season? Anybody tell Cashman Tulo’s average season would cost the same either way?
TooLow lasted longer than I thought,,,,now he will vanish to his rehab and announce he’s gearing up to be back for the playoffs, that is unless he votes himself into the all-star game
what’s the deal with all these injuries already? A person can’t run anymore without hurting themselves? don’t they stretch before they play?
Here come the Tulo injures…..
the yankees should really take a hard look at their trainers right now. so many injuries and its been what, a week or two since spring training?
I can’t say Tulo getting hurt is a surprise. Been saying that he belongs at first or DH for years. His body can’t do SS anymore. Fragile player. Yanks weren’t paying for Manny anyways.
Tulo needs to humble himself and admit to himself his body can’t do it any longer at SS . That was part of the argument behind closed doors with the Jays. He wouldn’t defer to younger and healthier players so the Jays released him. It would have been nice that the Jays didn’t throw him under the bus though even though Tulo’a attitude stinks.
Except he doesn’t hit enough to be 1B or DH, not anymore anyway. His only value is as a SS which he’s too fragile to play, hence Toronto dumping him.
Ok, who had the under 1 week ticket on Tulo getting hurt?
It is pretty amazing for us old folks who remember when players’ off seasons were spent either partying hardy or working a job. Now, supposedly, they all have work out routines.
They all have their own trainers, fitness experts, mental wellness experts, sexologists, nutritionists, proctologists, psychologists , and experts in every field.
And they’re getting hurt in record numbers.
Time to visit the neighborhood clinic or horse doctor instead….or get a job. Granny Clampet (M.D., as in Mountain Doctor) could take care of all these guys.
(Of course so could Ellie Maye……and Jethro for those so inclined.)
I’m pretty sure they’re also better athletes than those players of the past too. It pays to be in shape.
You have a selective memory then. Players have always gotten hurt. The athletes are obviously better now – bigger, faster and stronger – and those things lead to an increased level of play and a slightly higher risk of injury, sure, but there’s not much data showing that injuries are more prevalent now than in the “old days,” whatever criterion you’re using. We of course, don’t have much data before 1966 when the modern DL/IL was instituted. In the early days of baseball lots of players just got released once they got hurt.
And lots of players played through injury, often very poorly, because of the fear of being released. With guaranteed contracts and an IL now, there’s no real reason for a player to play when he’s at less than 100%, because it just hurts him and the team.
And there were fewer players at MLB level in, say, 1965, because there were fewer teams (20 at that time). 50% more teams equals 250 more players in dugouts. That can have the effect of thinning the quality of players in the game.
Finally, sports medicine has evolved to a point where a player can be diagnosed with something more precise than “rag arm”, and can be treated for the injury and resume playing, instead of having to retire.
Further evidence of Cashman’s incompetence. Not even the hype-sters on Yes can hide it.
Wake up Hal.
Woah there. I’m a die hard Sox fan and even I would balk at calling Cashman incompetent.
He took a calculated risk, and even with all the injuries, the Yankees problem was never going to be offensive production. The Yankees will go as far as their rotation will carry them.
I mean Tulo was basically free in baseball salary terms. He wasn’t expected to last the full season. Just hoped for more than 6 games
He cost a 40 man slot and the signing of an alternative. That was the biggest downside of signing tulo.
Cash deserves some flack, but Hal’s budget is why you have short term “value” signings over the “best” free agents that were available.
Well looks like I lost my office pool on how many ab’s before Tulo gets hurt. I had 20-40 ab’s. I mean he couldn’t at least make it a few more games.
Here I thought Tulo would last until at least May
Tulo, please retire so we don’t have to read any more updates about you being injured!
Next, the grass is green and the sky is blue. Cows also go moo!
Usually Tulo plays a few weeks before he screws his new team and milks his salary while on the IL for the season
Tulo couldn’t even make it through my He first week …lol
Move bird to 3rd – Dj to 2nd – gleybar to short
Yea have the worst defensive infield in history. Do you even watch MLB?
Avila playing with his massive 170 BA last year. Wow early for the DBacks to be rising the white flag by playing him.
Avila starting firstbase is not good. Remember days when 1B was reserved for good power hitters?
Tulo was overworked! Boone should have given him more days off!
Everytime Tulo puts on his pants by himself he ends up on the 10 day. He should have starred in Unbreakable.
The Yankees’ DJ LeMahieu acquisition looks better everyday. If Gleyber Torres is the SS of the future, this is an opportunity to evaluate him there. LeMahieu is one of the better 2B.
Cashman said he did not see Torres as a long term short stop.
They are paying Didi $12 million to rehab in hopes they get something from him this year.
Link please…
Glad to see the Yankees, And the Red Sox are beginning to suck like the Blue Jays and Orioles, that leaves Tampa Bay, the clear division winner. Also noticed that overwhelming crowd at BLue Jays Baltimore game last night.
Unless Guerrero is promoted there is very little reason to attend games.