The Yankees have recalled right-handed reliever Chad Green from Triple-A Scranton and optioned lefty Nestor Cortes Jr., the team announced.
After a marvelous run with the Yankees from 2017-18, during which Green logged a 2.18 ERA/2.33 FIP with 12.26 K/9 and 1.99 BB/9 in 144 2/3 innings, he got off to such a poor start this season that the team demoted him to Scranton on April 24.
Before the Yankees temporarily booted him from their 25-man roster, Green worked 7 1/3 nightmarish frames in which he allowed 14 earned runs – the same amount he yielded in 69 innings two years ago – on 15 hits (four home runs) and issued four walks against seven strikeouts. Green also saw his hard contact rate soar to nearly 55 percent, up from the low-40s over the previous two years, as hitters crushed him for a .512 weighted on-base average/.459 xwOBA, per Statcast. Most of the damage has come versus Green’s previously irreproachable four-seam fastball, against which batters have hit .435 and slugged .870 this season.
Fortunately for Green and the Yankees, the 27-year-old reverted to his dominant ways during his 7 1/3-inning trip to the minors, where he fanned 14, walked two and allowed two earned runs on five hits. He’ll now rejoin a Yankees bullpen that has fared well in 2019 even in spite of Green’s woeful big league output. A pair of expensive offseason signings – Adam Ottavino and Zack Britton – as well as the revived Tommy Kahnle have all been effective bridges to closer Aroldis Chapman, and New York’s hope is Green will add another imposing force to that game-ending group upon his return.
Let’s hope he’s fixed
1IP, 3Ks so far… = )
Good to get Green back if he reverts to dominance. Betances coming back as well and with Khanele returning to form the Yankees pen should exceed last year.
Good. Boone has to get over his love affair with Holder.
Cessa is worse. I know they need him for mop up and long relief duties but he just gets rocked every time he’s called in to a game.
You mean the same Cessa whose era is 3.22. Don’t know what Cessa you are watching.
Even 75% of Green is better than this horrible revolving door. That guy yesterday was terrible.
Green was amazing today !
Yep, 1IP, 3Ks against a first place team…