The Yankees announced this afternoon they’ve activated reliever Justin Wilson from the injured list. The veteran southpaw’s start to the season was delayed by shoulder inflammation. He’s now in line to make his first appearances as a Yankee since New York traded him to the Tigers for Chad Green and Luis Cessa in December 2015. Wilson spent last season with the crosstown Mets, where he pitched to 3.66 ERA/3.92 SIERA, before signing with the Yankees in February.
More from the game’s East divisions:
- The Marlins are one of the teams that will be attendance for Aníbal Sánchez’s showcase tomorrow in Miami, reports Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. The free agent righty wasn’t in a rush to join a team over the offseason due to concerns about COVID-19 and accompanying protocols, but he’s now expected to sign in the near future. Sánchez began his major league career with the Marlins, pitching in Florida for five-plus seasons before being traded to the Tigers in a 2012 deadline blockbuster. Sánchez spent the last two seasons with the Nationals, combing for a 4.52 ERA with a below-average strikeout rate (18.5%) and a solid walk percentage (7.9%).
- Blue Jays righty Nate Pearson came out of a bullpen session yesterday feeling fine, manager Charlie Montoyo told reporters (including Shi Davidi of Sportsnet). The hard-throwing righty suffered a groin injury in Spring Training that currently has him on the 10-day injured list. A productive season from Pearson, Baseball America’s #19 overall prospect entering the year, would go a long way towards the Jays’ hopes of sticking with the Yankees and Rays in the American League East.
- The Buffalo Bisons, the Blue Jays’ Triple-A affiliate, announced this morning they will move to Trenton at the beginning of their season, which kicks off May 4. The move allows the Jays and Bisons to “complete a joint renovation project to prepare (Buffalo’s) Sahlen Field for Major League regular season games.” While the Jays have not officially announced any plans to play home games in Buffalo in 2021, the Bisons’ temporary relocation is the strongest indicator yet the Jays are preparing to return to Buffalo at some point after playing there in 2020. The Jays will continue to stage home games through the end of May at their Spring Training complex in Dunedin, Florida.
It’s nice to have Justin Wilson with the Yankees again. Welcome back to the best team in NY.
Certainly one of.the top three come Jume-July.
How’s dj doing?
@despicable_you- how many games have been played? Smh.
.310 with an .860 ops. How’s Lindor doing again?
Pretty sure if you polled every MLB GM, including Cashman, and gave them a choice between Torres and Lindor as their starting SS, 100% of them would pick Lindor.
I don’t think it’s quite as clear cut as that.
Gleyber still just 24. Also – big factor here – costs just $4MM.
Green and Cessa still with Yankees nice to see a trade that worked out.
Does NY have it’s own World Series now?
Lmao
Lol!!!
Good news about Pearson. Jays need this guy healthy. He has potential to be great.
Lolyanks
Yeah.
That sucked. Guess I’ll go goose hunting with the rest of my day. Wasted the afternoon watching that.
Why do the Yankees bat Hicks third. I don’t get it. .234/.331/.399
Is it because he is cheap? Nice guy? What?
Been asking the same question the last couple years.
Since he’s a switch-hitter, it’s to balance out their predominantly right-handed lineup. Hicks is among the top in league in pitches seen per PA and also draws walks.
That does not excuse Hicks at 3-hole. Better hitters should gain that extra at bat over him every game. Have to wonder how many games that has cost the Yankees the last couple of years.
best team lol not ws champ ever year
It is not likely that the jays are coming back to Toronto soon or at least until everyone in Toronto haze been vaccinated. Ontario is in a stay at home order and covid cases skyrocketing. A Toronto friend of mine is the hospital and almost died of Covid. He is still on oxygen and now needs heart surgery because covid racked some things in there. It is real.
Either it’s going to get you or it’s not. Me and my entire family had covid and had a mild cold. A friend of mine got it and died after being on a vent for a month, at age 28
The variants are also striking younger people that the mainline virus did. Yesterday I listened to Dr. Michael Warner from a Toronto hospital. One in every 2.8 deaths is now <50. He says the variants are a new disease.
The only solution is vaccination. That will be difficult in Canada, which is 36th out of 84 countries with a pop'n greater than 1M people in vaccination rate. The federal gov't didn't secure enough vaccines in time, and is now trying to blame the provinces, all of which are at 1/4 the rate of the US. The US and UK will attain herd immunity in July. Canada, not this year according to Bloomberg
https://twitter.com/drmwarner?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Personally I’m not taking it. You’re trying to tell me that the government (who screws us on a daily basis) is giving something to us for ” free” in our favor? A vaccine developed in months when it normally takes a decade? Yeah I’ll catch you later with that bullshish
When has the government ever in the history of forever been in on our side. I don’t buy it. No matter what idiot is in office.
Also listening to someone who gets paid to “treat” people is the last person I’d want to hear from about treating people. It’s paid propaganda. Just like the news, paid for by sponsors.
The vaccine worked for me. My wife and young adult daughter got the virus, but were unvaccinated. I did nothing to avoid contact with them and never got the virus. But I was vaccinated. Then again, at 55 years old I am less concerned about side effects from the vaccine than from the virus.
I don’t trust government either, but I trust scientists working for our great and much-maligned pharma industry.
I just don’t the thought of mass vaccinations. The same thing happens in 1917 and then 1918s spanish flu hit and wiped out millions. I’m not taking a chance. I like in the middle of nowhere so I’m lucky.
FWIW, the US is now facing vaccine resistance that is likely to prevent herd immunity. They expect peak vaccination to fall short around 55-59% sometime mid summer, then hit something of a wall based on current polling.
Then, variants may require fresh boosters, prior antibodies may be ineffective, etc.
I was vaccinated fairly early (february) via Moderna. Second shot pushed me up above 105* fever among side effects. I’d take the shot again, plus any booster.
Unfortunately, recent polling showed a larger number percentage of certain religious and voting groups don’t want to get the shots. In the deep south and Midwest allocated vaccines aren’t getting into arms at the same.rates anymore because of it.
So long as the under 18 aren’t getting shots, the reluctant/refusing groups will prevent us herd immunity and all bets are off.
King Trudy up north completely brainwashed the Canadian sheeple, the jays will be lucky if they sniff Canada by 2035.
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a pretty good article about Canada’s vaccine shortcomings. If anything, it is pretty generous to the Canadian government. Canada has an underdeveloped pharma industry and makes none of its own vaccine. Yikes! For all its wealth and tremendous cities, it is shocking to see how poorly it has managed its own citizens’ health. I don’t know if this link will be blocked by the Journal’s paywall, but here goes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-the-u-s-vaccinates-millions-for-covid-19-most-canadians-are-still-waiting-11617905495?st=l88wdgdt0mf8uh0&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The US per capita GDP is about $20,000 higher than Canada’s and our health outcomes are substantially worse. Also, we faced massive PPE shortages that contributed to the damage the pandemic caused because we rely on China for the most basic of health supplies.
Actually it is 12500 higher to be precise . (2018 )
Thank you for linking this article.
Don’t count out those pesky Red Sox in the AL East this year. There’s something about this team that reminds me of 2013.
Sure and those pesky Orioles are right up with them as of now. Lets see where both are at 60 games in .
Interesting to see the Blue Jays AAA come to Trenton. That will be the third franchise there since it started. I remember seeing Nomar and Pavano there back in the day, then the yankees were there for a good while. Besides Trenton, we would go to Somerset to see Sparky Lyle manage Graig Nettles’ son, but they are an independent. We also go to see Reading Phillies when we get a chance. Try to go to minor league games wherever we travel to around the country. Not really very interested in major league games any more. Used to love them so much, we went to a Mets game at the end of our honeymoon in 1986. Coming up on 35 years, I’ve got some shopping to do.
Blue Jays need Pearson back and they need to score some runs. Captain Obvious.
I agree. They need to score more runs than their opponents in order to win games.
They need to shake up the batting order I think.
I’m not sure how they arrived to the order but it doesn’t make a ton of sense to me.
Bichette
Lourdes
Vladdy
Teo
Semien
Biggio
Grichuk
Rowdy
Jano/Kirk
It’s RH heavy at the top but I don’t think biggio deserves more ABs than vladdy and Teo so just stack the better hitters together and string some hits together
Not bad. Pretty much in-line with my idea:
Pick a guy
Pick a guy
Vlad
Pick a guy
Pick a guy
Pick a guy
Pick a guy
Pick a guy
Jansen
Lol that works too. Hopefully a shake up is on the way !
They need Springer to comeback and be the catalyst at the top of the order they are paying him to be. Grichuck is the one no one wanted around and he and Vlad Jr. are the only one’s hitting. Tellez might be the odd man out whenever Springer finally returns
They need pitching and didn’t go after it. Thank goodness the Jays paid for a CF to replace a guy showing he’s capable of playing CF. Grichuk is proving that defensively and any defensive metric is a bunch of bull. Springer will do very little to fix this Jays team. Glad those Jays fans clap for no pitching and a CF that wasn’t a necessity.
They need to outhit their problems. They’re not hitting.
Idk, Biggio is a guy I want around the top of the order. He’s a guy who could have an OBP nearing .400 if he has a .260 BA. Personally, I would want a high OBP guy ahead of guys like Vlad, Hernandez, Gurriel and Bichette.
I’ll keep saying it. Carlos Martinez would look crazy good in blue. Or maybe just crazy. Anyway, he can be had at a very low price for anyone willing to take on Matt Carpenter. Jays and Cards have extensive trade history.
Biggio at .260/.400? Yeah, good luck to him reaching that.
@WereAllJustGuestsHere Agree 100%
tbh the jays need to get rid of montoyo
The Trenton Thunder and now the Bison will play there. How about calling them the Thundering Herd, at least temporarily?
It should be referenced. Much like the Tribe being the Cleveland Indians, Thundering Herd seems appropriate. A potential promo here.
I don’t know, they might need to ask Woody Herman.
Cash Magic. He specializes in sore armed pitchers. At least he was smart enough not to sign Paxton a second time.
Save the time Cash and Boone, the Yankees are a mess! Hal doesn’t care as long as the cash flow is positive.