The latest on multiple injury situations throughout the game…
- Aaron Judge’s most recent calf injury “seems like a recurrence of what he had before,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said during an interview with WFAN (hat tip to MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch). Judge re-injured his calf in his first game back from a minimum 10-day stint on the injured list, and Boone suggested that this latest issue “does seem minor in nature again, but certainly something that could turn into an IL stint again.”
- While Judge is a question mark, the Yankees could potentially have DJ LeMahieu back for this weekend’s series against the Mets. Boone said that LeMahieu took batting practice today at Yankee Stadium and will now report to the club’s alternate training site. Assuming the second baseman is indeed able to return against the Mets, it would represent a slightly early return from the initial 2-to-3 week timeline projected after LeMahieu was initially placed on the injured list with a thumb sprain on August 16. In other Yankees injury news, Boone said Giancarlo Stanton (hamstring) also took on-field batting practice today, and that Gleyber Torres (quad/hamstring) is making good progress.
- Evan White left during the third inning of the Mariners’ 10-7 loss to the Padres due to what the M’s termed as right shoulder discomfort. After the game, Seattle manager Scott Servais told the Seattle Times’ Ryan Divish and other reporters that White initially suffered the injury while diving for a ball in Tuesday’s game and was trying to play through the pain. The rookie first baseman entered today’s game with only a .168/.238/.379 slash line through his first 105 plate appearances in the big leagues, though White had begun to heat up over the last week.
- The next step in A.J. Puk’s rehab will take place Friday, as Athletics manager Bob Melvin told the San Francisco Chroncile’s Susan Slusser and other reporters that Puk will throw 30 pitches over two simulated innings against live batters. This will be the second time that Puk has faced actual hitters during his recovery from shoulder woes that have plagued him since Spring Training. There is still no clear timetable on when Puk could make his return to the A’s, though the club has already said that he will be deployed as a reliever in 2020.
- Rockies pitching prospect Ben Bowden isn’t likely to make his MLB debut this season, manager Bud Black told The Athletic’s Nick Groke and other reporters. Bowden suffered another injury he was already recovering from a back problem that sidelined him during Spring Training. A second-round pick out of Vanderbilt in the 2016 draft, Bowden didn’t have a great performance in the hitter-friendly environment of Triple-A Colorado Springs in 2019, though the southpaw has a 3.60 ERA, 13.1 K/9, and 3.15 K/BB over 127 1/3 total minor league innings, all as a reliever.
Not here comes the judge. There goes the judge.
Glad to see you have competent writers, the Rockies haven’t had their AAA team in Springs in like 5 years
Glad you posted such a snide remark.
Colorado Springs is close to New Mexico.
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You sir will live your life never having had a friend.
Yankees need a new glass smith to work on judge.
No, the Yankees need a full purge of strength/conditioning/medical staff. Judge is in the Bronx forever. He’s a great icon of the sport and the team.
Throwing around the term icon quite loosely there.
The Yankees had the same head athletic trainer for the past 8 years before this season and they’ve never been this hurt. It’s not the staff.
The had 30 guys hit the IL last season! Not sure where you get “they’ve never been this hurt” from. Last season was a complete disaster. Their entire strength & conditioning program needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Wtf are you talking about? They were a train wreck with injuries last year as well. Every fan in baseball knows that.
They’ve had issues with injuries since 2013 it seems honestly. They definitely need something changed because whatever they’re doing right now isn’t working. I feel like Judge basically talked himself off of the IL and he’s most likely going to end up right back on it. Yanks are scary when they’re healthy, but they rarely are.
The Yanks need a priest, there are some evil spirits hovering around that team.
@adamontheshore- if the Yanks need a priest, then the Devil Rays need Jesus.
What can I say, to me I see Devil Rays. Hearing you guys will trade for Michael Lance Lynn to win the AL East this year. You should. He is a cheap $8 million next season. Can you guys even afford do that for a fighter’s chance to win the division this season? Hope so.
i dont get why any team would draft a RP that high
In 2007, the Pirates took a reliever with the #4 overall pick ahead of Wieters and Bumgarner.
Under slot, of course.
I guess teams are confident they can stretch him out eventually? There was also a recent Twins draft pick who was picked I think in the Top 10. College reliever who they tried to turn into a starter and it backfired.
The Rockies once took a relief pitcher at #8 overall. He turned into arguably the greatest Rockie ever. His name, Todd Helton. Who , last time I checked, still held the NCAA record for consecutive scoreless innings pitched.
Granted that RP pick comes with an asterisk.
Boone always sugar coats Yankee injuries. Obviously they bring guys back too fast.. Judge lasted a few innings. How could it be a minor injury when it clearly wasn’t healed? DJ is potentially looking at the same problem. Boone is so afraid to lose a game. NYY will be in playoffs there’s no reason what so ever to not err on the side of caution and make sure these guys are fully recovered.
I doubt Boone is the one who makes these decisions. In all honesty, I think Boone babies players more than anything.
We should change the Judges Chambers at the stadium to a hospital room so we can watch Judge on the IL all yr
I love judge, but he’s hardly playing. I’d reconsider signing him long term. He has to prove he can actually play more than half the season
@angryyanksfan- that being said do you want to trade him next season? Because he is going to get injured every season. And what kind of haul do you want or expect to get back for him if he is traded? Vladimir Guerrero J.r? Fernando Tatis J.r? Wander Franco?
I’m not usually political here, but I would like to say this. If the players feel it’ll help things by choosing not to play. Fine by me. It’s a free country. Do I think it’ll help the situation? It might bring some awareness, but I feel they could do more. Protesting and speaking out is one thing. But one thing I would like to propose to MLB and its players is creating an underprivlidged youth foundation. I had to write a paper about the decrease of youth participation in sports last year during one of my college classes. I personally don’t find it a concidence that there has been a decrease in African American MLB players, and lower incomes among African-American households. Baseball can be expensive. A decent, Easton aluminum bat for a little leaguer can cost anywhere between $50 to $200. That’s also not including a fielding glove, batting gloves, and other miscelaneous equipment. It’s a real shame speaking how much rich African American history there is in this sport. I really think that, not only might it help the situation at hand, but also help the game in general if they started opening baseball camps, little league camps, and fields that are often maintinenced around the United States in areas of lower-income. Aside from a Compton youth program, I couldn’t find much else, and I had to go looking for that one. Not only should they promote that one more, but also open more across the US.
Isn’t this what MLB’s R.B.I. program is all about?
That is true. I didn’t think about that. However, according to Wikipedia, so take this for what you will, it only has a budget of $30 million. That could be much higher if Players decided to donante even a sliver of their money. I feel the word about it needs to be more promoted.
I don’t think anyone really has a good solution to what’s happening in the world. But I do believe that good people can rise up above this, and do stuff to improve their community, and the situation.
I played for Dreiers Sporting Goods baseball team in the early 90’s. When Mr. Dreier retired, he was written about in Sports Illustrated regarding all the positive impact he had on youth sports around the Plainfield, New Jersey area. There were other people who worked hard to improve things including the parents of one of my teammates. It needs to be a grass roots and local effort. Money can come from somewhere else but you need passionate local leaders to make it work.
The RBI program, mostly an inner city program, does not reach the majority of low income kids. Baseball doesn’t have to be expensive, it’s only expensive when adult try to make money at a kids game. Fees are ridiculous, uniforms are overblown, counties charging leagues for field use (especially here in Florida), put baseball out of reach. Tax dollars spent on youth sports for local kids are tax dollars well spent. Better yet, properly find schools and their athletics programs and you’ll find more kids stay in school. No national organizations with each level taking a bite of the pie. Just kids…
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I agree with your sentiment and there could be more investment in the under privilidged for baseball especially, but you hit the nail on the head with the costs.
With the price of equipment, land investment and other expenses. it is easier for other sports to grow.
When you consider return on investment for the players. How many years does it take for a baseball player to make it to the decent money area of baseball (whole other discussion). I believe the initial baseball players are making below minimum wage (not even 10k) and have to pay for most expenses or live with a baseball family during the season. Then during the offseason have to get another job anyways. “The average salary for a minor league baseball player, whose contract is handled by Major League Baseball, ranged from around $6,000 in Single-A to around $9,350 in Double-A to nearly $15,000 in Triple-A in 2018, according to The Athletic. ”
Other sports you pretty much make money, decent money, from the start. Even if you are the last player on the bench that never makes it into the game you are in the 6 figures.
There is definitely a huge financial strain on minor leaguers. It’s ironic that major league players worked second jobs back in the day while now they make chief executive salaries. Minor leaguers have had no such change happen for them financially. They’re not even at management trainee salaries (just to keep the corporate comparison). The only way they get their money is in the draft.
You need 16 ppl at least to play baseball/softball… you need 3 for two hand touch street football..2 for basketball( and not much brains). Thats a reason too besides the $$$$
The reason there are less African-Americans in baseball is because there are more Latinos playing baseball. For elite black players, you can pick FB, BB, or B-ball. For elite Latino athletes, you are pretty much stuck with baseball.(or soccer in South America).
This won’t change either. You can’t make Pacific Islanders play baseball, and you cannot make Dominicans play basketball. All for obvious reasons.
Why would anyone think you can make African-Americans play more baseball? And why would anyone want to convince them?
I loved your post
Puk is a stud.
All this injury talk makes one want to puk
glass!!!
What the puk?. Judge is always hurt..a puk-ing shame.
Why are they doing a review of the IL All Star team?
Judge is reminding of Jack Clark of the Cardinals a few decades back.
It’s unreal that everyone has so many different reasons and comments about reasons and excuses for all the IL stints the past few years on the Yankees or for any other team . Why don’t we look at it as ( ball players are very bulked from weight training which = more muscle= more muscle injury. I think teams know this but either can’t stop it cause muscle = power and home runs, exit velocity. Players don’t stretch enough during games yet we see some stretching before games. They need to go in the tunnel between innings and stretch and stretch some more instead of mostly watching the game from the bench and then we will hopefully see less injury . It can’t be totally eliminated but it should help