The Giants are placing Mike Yastrzemski on the 10-day injured list, Kerry Crowley of the Bay Area News Group was among those to pass along. Sam Selman has been recalled in a corresponding roster move.
Yastrzemski’s IL trip isn’t all that surprising, as the outfielder has been nursing a mild oblique strain since Sunday. While the Giants had initially hoped he would be able to avoid a trip to the IL, it seems he’ll need at least an extra few days to recover. The 30-year-old has been one of the Giants’ top hitters in recent seasons, even earning some down-ballot MVP support last year. Yastrzemski got off to a tough start in 2021, but he had seemingly begun to turn the corner over the past few series. Altogether, he’s managed a .215/.303/.468 line with four home runs in 89 plate appearances so far this year.
With Yastrzemski ailing, the Giants acquired another left-handed hitting outfielder, Mike Tauchman, in a trade with the Yankees yesterday. Tauchman joins a mix that’ll also include Austin Slater, Alex Dickerson, Mauricio Dubón and Skye Bolt while Yastrzemski is on the shelf.
I always root for guys with cool baseball names to make it. Skype Bolt is just a cool baseball name. I always hoped Brooks Pounders would have become a solid regular somewhere.
Boof Bonser was my root for guy. Go boof!!
Lest we forget Forrest Wall
I’m guessing you all are too young to remember Razor Shines.
Yaz has been a little better lately but he’s not quite himself thus far. Too many K’s, may be pressing a bit. Also, not convinced there wasn’t lingering issues from the pitch he took on the hand at the end of spring training. At any rate, hope he feels better soon and that he comes back and starts raking again
Watching from afar (not a Giants fan), seems like he got off to a very slow start the first week of the season, but the last two weeks he seems fine, slashing .283/.365/.630 since his low point. That said, you might be seeing things watching him regularly. K rate does seem high. Obliques are always a concern. Rarely does someone bounce back in a few days. I’m still waiting for Mondesi to play his first game if 2021 after his mysterious oblique injury. His absence is killing my fantasy team!
Over his last 4 games, he’s hit .385/.467/1.000 with an OPS of 1.467. Small sample, sure, but clearly a sign that he was turning it around.
I would like to see Dickerson platooned more often. His defense is quite poor.
Also, Dubon needs to cut down on the mental mistakes. Running into Ron Wotus!
That Dubon base running mistake was so hard to watch. That was like something out of a high school baseball game.
I haven’t even seen that from a high school player
It was hard to watch him run into Wotus, but didn’t understand why Wotus gave him the stop sign there. Aaron Sanchez was due at the plate who hasn’t had a career hit, if I’m Dubon im rounding 3rd no matter what
Having Sanchez bat to end an inning is better then having him leadoff an inning. That’d the obvious reason to hold a runner that will be out by 15 feet.
Funny thing is Sanchez was pulled the next inning so that wouldn’t have mattered. Hindsight but still.
@baseball 1600
They had to double switch because of that play. That’s a very big mistake.
Baseball 1600:
What Wotus did is SOP for 3B coaches. They want the runner to be going as hard as possible to the base, just in case the ball isn’t handled cleanly. If Wotus sees a bobble of any kind, he’s sending Dubon.
But there wasn’t a bobble, and the stop sign was the correct call. Sure Dubon is going to overrun 3rd, but there’s time for him to stop, slide if he has to, and scramble back to the base.
Not sure if Dubon didn’t pick up Wotus, and saw the stop sign too late, but that was a huge mental error on Dubon’s part. And, if you were to do what Dubon did, you would have also been sitting on the bench in last nights game.
One door closes & another door opens, welcome Tauchman.Hope this isn’t a long IL stint for Yaz, but I also am backing Tauchman for some success.
They will only ever be on the hook for arbitration with yaz, so I think slow play the injury is probably best and his bat wasn’t helping that lineup too much anyway. Tauchman had a good start in the bay and carried it forward tonight with 3 hits. Like previously said not a bad trade considering slater is probably our best outfielder with yaz out and they dealt from a position with a lot of depth in the org.
Yaz been looking a lot like Orioles Yaz lately
last 12 games: .283, 4 doubles 1 triple, 3 Homer’s, 7 runs. I’m gonna guess the Orioles would take that. As would the Padres.
What about the last 13 games? Or last 6? As long as we’re picking arbitrary numbers to illustrate his success
The poster said “lately”. He didn’t define “lately”. It’s a vague word. Criticize him. I chose numbers reflective of recent games, games played lately. They indicate that Yaz was beginning to hit better than he had been hitting earlier. “Earlier” kinda being opposite of “lately”. So answer this Misterants, when a player wins Player Of The Week honors (for the sake of your response, let’s say that player’s team played 6 games that week),are you gonna complain to MLB that 6 games is arbitrary? BTW,over his last 6 games, Yaz is hitting .317 with 2 Homers and 2 doubles. Usually I read your pointless posts Misterants and refuse to respond. Same for TonyGwynn. Are you and him the same person?
Misterants:
It isn’t arbitrary when it indicates a progression. Look at how he’s hit each week since the opener.
First week: .120/.214/.240, 454 OPS
Second week: .217/.333/.522. 855 OPS
Third week: .276/.323/.586, 909 OPS
So while he hitting .215/.303/.468, with an .772 OPS, for the season that is not the guy the Giants were getting at the plate lately.
Misterants:
And as long as you were asking. In the last 13 games he’s hit:
.277/.358/.617, .976 OPS, 5 doubles, 1 triple, 3 HRs.
And for the last 6 games:
.318/.400/.682, 1.082 OPS. 2 doubles, 2 HRs.
So, in your feeble attempt to make a point, you threw out some random numbers. But, contrary to your intention, they still support what claude raymond posted. That, after an extremely slow start, Yastrzemski has been the hitter everyone expected him to be.
What he said. You da man tad
Dubon makes to many mental errors. Send him to AAA when their season starts, so he can correct his mental mistakes. Besides all that he’s an infielder, 2B or SS.
talking baseball:
His versatility make him too valuable to send down. Plus, there really isn’t a good back up for Crawford. The Giants went through this with Slater, who made a number of rookie mistakes. They stuck with him, for the most part, and I’m sure they will with Dubon.
I remember fans saying a few years ago “the team’s too old, play the kids”. But this is exactly what happens when they do play the kids.