The Yankees announced Friday that they’ve placed catcher Gary Sanchez on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to April 11, due to a left calf strain. Fellow backstop Kyle Higashioka has been recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in his place.
Sanchez becomes the 12th Yankees player to hit the injured list on the young season, joining key contributors Luis Severino, Dellin Betances, Aaron Hicks, Miguel Andujar and Giancarlo Stanton, among others. He’ll be out for at least the next nine days, given that the move is retroactive by one day, which is no small blow to the Yankees’ lineup given the excellent start Sanchez has enjoyed. To this point, he’s slashed .268/.333/.732 with six big flies through just 45 trips to the plate.
Higashioka, who’ll turn 29 during Sanchez’s absence, will team with Austin Romine to comprise the Yankees’ catching tandem while Sanchez is on the shelf. He’s seen sparse action at the MLB level with the Yankees over the past two seasons, hitting a combined .133/.212/.256 in 99 plate appearances.
This is insane. We suffered a ton of injuries to key players last season and it’s happened already this year 🙁
Wow. The Yankees really need to fire their entire training staff.
Check their background and make sure there’s zero Mets ties.
Don’t you mean Red Sox ties?
Lmao Chinwood 🙂
make sure you hack his computer and plant some ties if you dont find any while your at it. cant have anyone joking about the kings of baseball.
Just breath brother, and maybe tryout some caps.
Caps, grammar and punctuation.
Know difference youre you’re* Darkside
Your inferiority complex to Yanks is showing.
Put on your tinfoil hat @Darkside830, because it’s a conspiracy.
You know they were in trouble when their resume listed The Red Sox as a former employer
Who’s the conditioning coach? He needs too be fired fired fired !!!
Time to fire the strength and conditioning coach.
“We”?
Yes we! He is a Yankees fan, and identifies with his team. I guess you don’t have a team.
No, “we” is for when you work for the team. You don’t say “we’ve got some great new mixes” if you don’t work or own the bar.
no, in sports “we” is for the entire extended family
My pet-peeve is people who correct this. “We,” the collective of people who believe you are probably 12 years old, are flipping you the digital bird right now.
we agree with you
Digital bird flip back at you.
totally agree. my pet peeve is actually poeple who find people who say “we” to be their pet peeve. just deal with it and get a life, its just terminology.
Says the person acting like a 12 year old!
Yankeephiles and their “we”, it is just as annoying as all the cute nicknames they use for the players and even the GM.
Agree, I know plenty of people that say we when talking about the Sox and sometimes the Cubs. Deal with it. My wife actually says that about the Blackhawks. She’s a huge fan.
“Digital bird flip back at you”
awww looks like someone is gwumpy
Wow, these comments sound like comments that people have been making about the Angels on these threads for years. So I’ll add, trade Aaron Judge and free him from this team… it is so sad that he will never win a WS because of the ownership… blah blah blah
Talk about a pathetic comparison.
Trout has played 7 full seasons and been in 3 playoff games, soon to be 8 full seasons cause they are going no where this year.
Judge has played 2 full seasons and played in 18 playoff games.
Why on earth would Judge need to be freed from a team plays in the biggest market, that is always in the playoffs, has a ton a young talent and owners who will spend money?
That very well could be the dumbest comparison ive ever seen on this board, and that’s impressive.
Talk about a false comparison, lol.
It’s a joke. I’m an Angels fan and every time someone gets hurt the trolls would ramble on about how horrible the Angels trainers are and then they would start on a diatribe about trading Trout.
And yes it was dumb, it was meant to be.
If you are a Yankee fan, I’m sorry that your team is having to deal with all the injuries. Believe me, I know what it’s like.
Wait til the Ausmus hate comes flying in
I feel ya. I heard so much crap about how the Mets trainers are the worst. No one seems to think it’s just bad luck or a reflection of having an older roster.
As an angels fan, I feel your pain!
We? You’re on the Yankees?
Maybe he’s the new strength and conditioning coach.
I have heard the Yankees have finally fired Hanz and Frank as their strength and conditioning coaches. Frank Reynolds is seen as the leader to replace them. The warthog is well known for his “bend and snap” approach to training and his willingness to look the other way on PEDs.
It never ends
Dear god
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This is incredibly frustrating.
Of course. Man,when is it going to end.
Hurry back, Gary! I’m looking forward to seeing you hit your first career triple.
Yankees must have hired Ray Ramirez.
Maybe hiring Dr. Kevorkian as team trainer wasn’t the best idea, after all.
Lmao
Although I’m a Mets fan who doesn’t irrationally hate the Yankees, it’s really nice to see this happen to someone else’s team for a change.
That karma can bite you in the butt if are happy about something like this, just saying
That’s what’s happening to yankeephiles now
Oh shut up, met fand constantly playing the victim and looking for excuses.
Your team stunk last year because it was a poorly constructed team, not because of injuries.
Just like the Yankees will be fine even with the injuries.
And the yankees are actually missing good players.
Who was hurt on the Mets? Cespedes for most of the year and thor for 6 weeks, big deal.
The rest of the guys hurt were mostly awful, it just allowed mets fans to blame injuries instead of admitting they were wrong, a classic loser mentality.
Yankees are missing 7 All star caliber players and will still be fine, cause they are a good team.
The mets will have a couple stiffs get hurt in june and blame their whole downfall on that, lol
funny you cant see the point. this happens to the mets every year. i can imagine its refreshing from their perspective when it happens to other teams, wether or not they remain better then them after the injuries.
This is clearly another yankeephile, logic is not in their bag of tools. All they can do is substitute reality with their own.
“Who was hurt on the Mets? Cespedes for most of the year and thor for 6 weeks, big deal.”
Frazier, Bruce, Vargas (their 3 top fa pickups) Cespedes, Syndegaard D’arnaud (why there was no backup plan for him who knows), Lagares (same as D’arnaud), and David Wright (expected). There were a bunch more but those are the ones that were expected to be heavy contributors with the exception of Wright.
So that would be their top 3 or 4 bats depending on how you look at D’arnold. This is about the equivalent of the big bats listed above depending on where Judge stands. Hicks and Lagares are about the same with the injury history but hicks better bat and lagares better defender.
While i agree the lineup wasnt the best it was based on pitching just like the yankees are based on hitting. Yankees just have had more depth than the mets did because their owners spend more on the team than the coupons and made a lot of favorable trades.
Gary Sánchez
Didi Gregorius
Giancarlo Stanton
Miguel Andújar
Aaron Hicks
Troy Tulowitzki
Luis Severino
Dellin Betances
Jacoby Ellsbury
Jordan Montgomery
Ben Heller
Besides heller, pillsbury and tulo this is a ton of firepower on the IL 🙁 thankfully hicks and santon will resume full baseball activities within the next few days
You forgot Sabathia throughout this. That IL list is just insane.
Better now than this in July, Yankee fans. You only have to worry about the Red Sox in your division who are off to a terrible start. Rays will fade and when you guys will get healthy again you will be fine. You will have a healthy squad to lose to Houston in the playoffs.
I don’t know WHAT’S worse, the Injured List, or the Bull Pen and starting pitching they thought was the cat’s meow!!
My heart goes out to Sanchez, all this now just as he got his act together.
I wouldn’t say “got his act together” after 12 games, and he was the DH for 30% of them.
11 games, 6 HR, 11 RBI, 6R
Hell than give him the MVP and Comeback Player of the Year already, because nobody has ever got off to a start like that!
Yeah, see Chris Shelton for the 84 Tigers. He was in the minors after one of the hottest starts in MLB
Chris “Big Red” Shelton was with the 04 tigers.
Chris Shelton was the best hitter in MLB and carried the 2006 Tigers the first month of the season then self destructed and was relegated to back up July onward.
He was on a roll, getting his act together. One day at a time, not 162
he defensive, aside from a few errant throws, seemed to be much improved too. I thought we was blocking balls much better in the short amount of time he has played this season. Hands seem to be in better places
idk what stroke i had when i typed “he defensive”. i think i meant to type “defensively” lol
@Beg, not to worry, most of us
have our typos, and I win the award for being number 1 at that!!
8 games as catcher… 4 errors.
But errors don’t mean anything, right?
3 of those were throws in which 2 of then couldve been gloved by Gleyber. Im not worried about Sanchez’s ability to throw the ball
Another one!!!
I love it, Too Low not listed as a “key contributor “,,,,,,probably just added an extra months rehab!
Lmao
Don’t worry for this weekend. They should be good for at least 8+ runs per game against WSox pitching.
Unfortunately accurate
Some of the stupidest fans here demanding that training staff needing to be fired. How are these folks suppose to know in advance that a player will pull a groin muscle or roll their ankle rounding the base. Use some common sense
I think the point is that they should be doing better conditioning and training to prevent this kind of injury. The concentration of these injuries seems (not saying it is) a little too concentrated to be coincidental. It seems to many like the team wasn’t ready for the season.
This is exactly it. The conditioning coaches clearly dont have the team conditioned. Its their job to condition the team and its as if they havent done that
Shampoo only. No conditioner.
2 in 1
You can stretch and prepare and still incur an injury. It IS stupid to react by demanding someone be fired. Trainers don’t control what the player eats and how they workout 24/7.
+south
This isnt one or two injuries. It practically the startling lineup, their ace, and a top line reliever. These injuries are all happening at the same time too. To remove all responsibility from the trainers the moment everyone collectively tears a muscle swinging the bat is silly. Might as well not have them around at all if your not going to hold them accountable for anything that happens.
when you have players simply getting injured playing baseball (not to mention all your players), its time to look at the training staff.
They are Yankees… aren’t they above all that?
What are you even saying?
Conditioning is for those other guys. These are “Yankees”. You know, 27 championships… the “House that Ruth Built” and then ARod renovated. These guys are royalty and don’t need conditioning.
I think your hatred for guys that play baseball in certain uniforms is getting out of hand. Youre starting to just make things up. Get help
Darn
Well, maybe they are getting it out of their systems early…..
A few Yankee injury posts ago, I believe someone shared a video of the end of infinity war with Yankee names over the names of people as they dusted..
Anyone know what. Talking about? Cant seem to find it again
It’s like they are the Angels East.
Except for the fact people know they are in the league and will still make the playoffs, quite easily in fact.
Any stadium improvements this offseason? May need to sonar the concrete in those areas to check for jerseys if so….
Rub some thoughts and prayers on that. XD
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is this is the worst timeline?
The Yankees announce that the entire 25 man roster, except for Jacoby Ellsbury, has been placed on the 10 day IL…..Ron Guidry will start the home opener on Saturday…
do you think Joe Namath was any good at baseball?
I’m not as of yet on the fire Boone bandwagon and I don’t blame Boone for the rash of injuries but boy I have zero faith in his managerial decisions and I just don’t like how he manages a bullpen. I can’t stand the fact that it appears he manages each game based off of the 24 nerd statisticians who tell him what moves to make and when to make them for each situation prior to the game. I think he’s a great coach for the players and keeps his cool plus he’s an all around swell guy so I’m gonna give him the season and anything short of winning the division and advancing far in the playoffs is a failure and then I’m officially on the fire Boone bandwagon and calling for Buck to become Manager next season. I don’t have faith as it is but he’s a smart guy and maybe we see some improvements as the season moves along.
Ohhhh I am on the fire the hitting coach bandwagon. If they can’t teach these professional baseball players how to at least try and shorten up on their swing and look opposite field with two strikes and the art of situational hitting with ducks on the pond then get someone in here that will scream and send a message!
It may be better coverage these days, but seems like the league in its entirety is prone to more injuries. You would think these players would afford to invest into their future by hiring and listening to health coaches. The players association will most likely push the owners to provide all off season conditioning coaches one per player. So many injuries
I know the seasons young, and so is the team’s core group, but with all these injuries you have to wonder if the Yanks window of contention is starting to close. I mean, last season was supposed to be “their year,” and now this…
Hahaha I wouldn’t trade for him for a bag of balls right now!
Who is this laibax user?
Yankee hysteria! In other news, as pictures of the recently discovered black hole come into focus, astronomers have now identified some of the objects entering the never to return vortex. Among the observed items were the pennant flags of the 2019 Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, and Boston Red Sox. Also, though barely visible, was a waving Arthur Dent, echoing what some cosmologists claim was the shout, “So Long, and thanks for all the fish.” Scientists disagree as to whether this was some futuristic message regarding Marlins, or just a recognition of the “Cosmic” Rays. And for some reason Mr. Dent (no relation to Bucky) seemed to be waving a towel with the abbreviation T.B.
Man!!! All the PEDs they peddle through their clubhouse has really hit these guys hard!
Seriously though… Stanton, Andujar and NOW Sanchez?? They’re never going to replace that kind of strikeout production!!! That’s close to 2000 strikeouts every 2 weeks right now they’re missing out on!!!!!!
Guess Ellsbury taught them that they can get paid and not play.
So are the Yankees going to play this year or is everyone disab- injured.