9:40 AM: The Yankees have announced the corresponding roster move, with Justin Wilson being activated from the injured list. Wilson last appeared almost exactly a month ago on May 28th. He owns a 6.08 ERA across 13 1/3 innings so far this season, though he was attempting to pitch through discomfort.
7:38 AM: The Yankees optioned right-hander Albert Abreu to Triple-A following last night’s defeat of the Angels. An additional roster move is likely to follow sometime before today’s 7:05 PM start.
This was already Abreu’s sixth different stint with the big-league club this year, though not every time on the roster has resulted in mound work for the 25 year old. He tossed two scoreless innings yesterday in his sixth appearance of the year. Though used sparingly, he’s been effective as a multi-inning reliever for manager Aaron Boone.
The one-time starter has been used in a similar capacity in Triple-A, tossing 15 2/3 innings in nine appearances with a 4.02 ERA. He has allowed 10 walks in that time, but he’s also proved an effective strikeout artist, recording 29 strikeouts for a robust 43 percent strikeout rate.
Yanks trying to mimic rays. Welp, If u can’t beat em…..
How are they trying to mimic the Rays?
By limiting fringe mlb pitchers innings early in the season to keep em fresh then bring them up for small stints in the show hoping for limited success before sending them back down as planned. Fantastic way to eat quality long relief innings
They’ve been doing that for years buddy
yeah, doesnt sound like something intrinsicly Rays at all.
In fact, it’s been known as “the Scranton Shuttle” since…man…2016 I think.
The Scranton shuttle has been around since girardi
If they were mimicking the Ray’s, they would trade their biggest has been player to the Pirates for all of their best prospects.
Yankees won last night.
scratch my last comment..sorry
Justin Wilson is likely getting activated from the IL in a corresponding move
The Scranton Shuttle continues.
Until the Yankees realize the biggest issue is he didnt bat left handed nor was he a good base runner, who cares?
Think its a good idea for the Yanks to sell at the deadline. This year wont happen. Bottom line, this is not a good baseball team. Id even go as far as saying this is a pretty bad team
Retool for next season, start dumping guys like Sanchez and Gardner and get ready for 2022. Sox did it and look at them now.
Red Sox fan here,
What the Red Sox are doing is unsustainable if they don’t get their starting pitching straightened out, this bullpen is going to be gassed by the break
I am not quite as worried about Sox pen as was few weeks back.. granted, only 5 are of any use, but looks like Rios now a keeper as multi inning guy and Andriese hopefully goner before long. Sale and Houck back by late july-August. Both can either play long relief, swing man roles. Brasier back before long. It’s not as bad as 1st think with the “big 5” being over worked.
I would keep your worries with the rotation. Having a group of no. 4 and 5’s + a who knows in Sale won’t survive in October.
The offense can bludgeon though. The Sox currently look a lot like the Yankees of the 2010’s – 100 wins and an ALCS flame out.
The RS top-5 has thrown 29.1 fewer innings than the NYY, and that doesn’t include Whitlock. None of the top five have more than 34 innings.
But like you said, we need a little more depth from the rotation.
@Milwaukee Yes the Yankees should sell at the deadline. But this isn’t a bad team, they just need a bit of a roster shakeup. No need to get rid of Gardner, he’s gone at the end of the year and he has no trade value and has 10/5 rights to refuse a trade. While Sanchez is frustrating, he has gotten better with his defense and if they get rid of him, who do they get that’s better. The most obvious choices for trades is from the bullpen. They could attach a prospect to move Hicks or trade Frazier, Torres or Andujar.
Awww, man, @Joe.
@YankeeBleacherCreature is saying the same kind of stuff. Now, I know I can be optimistic to a fault. Acknowledging that & trying to be at least somewhat objective, I see no reason we can’t hang around the Wild Card race at least.
Sure we are a flawed team. Need another starter & definitely need to address CF but I see no reason to throw in the towel.
Miggy is looking passable on the grass & he is now up to a .700 OPS. So…screw Frazier, I guess. Gotta get Gleyber going.
But our pen is absolute fire. We have a legit ace. Montgomery & German are looking like you wouldn’t be embarrassed to start them in a playoff game. Hopefully we can get something out of Sevy or Kluber later in the season. Kluber was really throwing well. So perhaps the answer to our rotation is already on the roster.
Man.
I just can’t seem to give up on these guys despite the warts & the brutal aesthetic brand of ball we play.
I’m nowhere close to yielding.
{sigh} Hal must love fans like me, man.
Should have never let go of Tanaka
I said that all winter.
It was finances. Which still irks me. Until ’17 the Yanks paid the luxury tax: Every Single Season.
Suddenly, it’s now imperative that we re-set every three years. What’s really amazing are the amount of generally savvy Yankee fans that have bought into that particular company line.
Put Hiro in this rotation & it’s a pretty good one.
But – ya know – we had to reset or we would have been kicked out of the league. Or something.
@Ducky.. yeah, up until this year I was right there with you. I think now though the team needs a shakeup. Nothing major, just move a couple of pieces.
One of the biggest problems, and its nobody’s fault exactly, is the team is the victim of early success. In 2016, there was a minor rebuild and the very next year they are a Houston Astros cheating scandal away from the World Series.
But this team does lack a few things though. There is no fire to this team. They have Voit but I don’t think he has the veteran leadership qualities of someone like the Toddfather or CC did. Supposedly, Gardy is supposedly that guy but I just don’t see it from him. I thought that’s why he was brought back.
There is no speed and the team lacks fundamentals. They are last in the league in a few taking extra bases type categories.
Way too many three true outcome guys. I’m a big fan of Judge but maybe it is time to move on from him. We all know Stanton isn’t going anywhere so that makes Judge redundant.
And just as importantly, they need a manager, not a FO puppet. I still like Cashman but his little experiment in the analytics dept. making on field decisions has failed.
End of rant.
“In 2016, there was a minor rebuild and the very next year they are a Houston Astros cheating scandal away from the World Series.”
In 2017, the Red Sox fell victim to that same Astros team. Sale was lit up like a journeyman. At the time, I just thought Houston was better, so I moved on. The next year, the Astros couldn’t stop the Red Sox. That’s how you do it, so then you don’t have to complain for the next four years. You can either convince yourself that the teams that win are cheating (boy, I’ve done that MANY times) or you can move on and get better. The yankees just have not gotten better. They are a good team but very flawed and don’t seem to have an effective cohesive approach towards improving.
Et tu’, Joe?
I keep going back to @Yankee Clipper’s warning that the Yanks would be the team most severely impacted by the deadened ball.
Offensively, we are just not hitting enough baseballs over the fence. I too have soured immensely in Booner. We were at least average – or a little above – defensively under Joe G. Now we are bottom 3.
We didn’t do all that really stupid crap on the bases either.
& yeah, we don’t seem to play as hard.
Don’t mind me. I cracked the screen on my phone when I threw it in my truck when we sold in ’16.
I’ve never been very good at conceding.
See, I’m hoping for a Marte trade &…well, I’m not sure what else to be honest. Just…something.
I understand where you fellas are coming from. I don’t care for it & I still think we could eke out a WC spot. Then – ya know – hope to get hot.
I’ll just stick to that as I am not sure I’m capable of anything else.
@whyhazee my post wasn’t about being hung up on the Astros. It was about a rebuild that far exceeded anyone’s expectations. I think the current team is hampered by that.
Got it, Joe. Rebuilds can be hit or miss. Between free agents, prospects, and trades, you need most of them to work out. But I think the yankees don’t have a very good overall approach. Too much bullpen, maybe at the expense of other important areas. They’re spending an awful lot of money on guys who pitch 60 innings in a season (that’s if you want them fresh for the postseason season, which is now ridiculously long).
I’d keep the tank possibility open, but you don’t go frpm the division favorite, to an also-ran that quickly. You have four SPs that can be about league average, plus Cole. You have position players that should be above-average, and a very good BP.
And, if I were you, I wouldn’t be conceding that the RS are a .600 team. Bloom and Cora have done a great job, but we could easily lose 7-10. It wouldn’t take much more than a weak (not even terrible) 3-week stretch on our part.
That said, I think you also need to be realistic if you haven’t turned things around by the trade deadline. If you are still playing .519, there won’t be enough time to recover, and there will be too many teams in the way to hope for someone else to collapse.
@Brady –
As you can see from my posts, ole Ducky ain’t conceding squat.
So, yeah.
Was just thinking if there was perhaps another team I could be a fan of. Turns out, I hate everyone else just a little too much.
Stuck with the Yanks & it’s late & this was a…man….really crummy game.
What a weird game, 7 run innings at either end. I don’t know why closers can’t seem to function when they come in non-closing situations. Chapman can’t find the strike zone and then all of a sudden he can? Oops. What if they just threw anyone else out there? Did Chapman need the work? That badly?
This yankee team seems to get comfortable that they’ve turned it around only to fall back to a couple games over .500. Something’s going on this year with them. Overconfidence? Just not that hungry? It’s hard to tell.
Sanchez has been one of the bright spots for the Yankees this year and they arent “bad”, but extremely average, displayed by their “0” run differential. Aggressive negative evaluation aside, you are right- they are the 3rd or 4th best team in their division and should sell. But who?
Gardner is a 4th OF on a one year deal, so no need to dump him when he has no value and will be gone soon anyway. Stanton is nearly immovable due to injuries. His contract is more reasonable than most realize at only 22 mil against the luxury, so eating half may help, but he actually hits when healthy so mineaswell hang onto him compared to the underwhelming likely return.
Torres has pathetic quality of contact metrics and I cant imagine NY getting a player like Story back in his current state.
The only appealing pieces beyond Judge and maybe Urshela are youngsters like Dominguez and Medina who are controllable assets, which the Yankees will need themselves to improve.
Bottom line, although they haven’t had a losing season in over 25 years, the Yankees arent poised for a great one anytime soon either.
Chad green, Chapman, o day, Britton, Wilson, Frazier, Wade, Voit could all be trade pieces
The Yankees have moveable pieces, but few which would help them get better next season.
I would like to see them move Green or Britton for a lefty hitting prospect, but Voit would leave them naked at 1B and they’re not getting more than a bag of balls for Wade, Andujar, Frazier, Wilson, O’Day, etc.
Frankly the “They’re not getting more than a bag of balls” comment is tragically overused when looking at any ballplayer on the Yankees or otherwise.
Teams fall into either one of two categories when looking at under-achieving players; Either they agree that that player is probably exactly what you currently see when playing, or that a player is under-achieving and needs either consistent playing time and a venue change to tap into their true ability no matter how average that may be.
The players you mention are not making lots of money and have controllable years; Andujar is starting to hit and if you overlook his average to below average defensive ability, there are teams looking at his bat (which is beginning to get back to where he was 2 years ago pre-injury) that would gladly trade for him and play him consistently in the outfield. We’re not talking Dodgers here but teams just looking to play and finish out the year and look towards next year! Frazier probably is one of those players who needs a change in venue to really see is he the .190 hitter currently or can he switch into the average MLB outfielder with a decent to good glove he might actually be….and he’s cheap! Just a couple of examples of why the “bag of balls” return comment is so lame!
OK, please replace bag of balls, with a player with no immediate value, likely short season to low A prospects who wont help a team looking to contend in the next four years… like the Yankees.
The only way Andujar or Frazier rebuild any sort of relevant trade value is by performing to the extent the Yankees would prefer to hold onto them. That’s why your rose colored glasses comments are so lame.
bronxbombers4 hours ago
Chad green, Chapman, o day, Britton, Wilson, Frazier, Wade, Voit could all be trade pieces
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I doubt it. O’Day, Britton, and Wilson are either on the DL or just off of it. Wade has a negative career WAR. And, if you trade Voit, then you would simply have to trade for a 1B to replace Voit. Frazier you would be selling at a deep discount. But Chapman should get you something.
Dumping Gardner means releasing him cuz no one is trading anything for him.
Why Sanchez though? One of the top catchers in the league.
Sánchez is one of the top catchers?
Have you seen the state of MLB catching these days? Or Sanchez’ OPS+? He is.
Looking forward to the Andujar/Frazier trade proposals here.
Clint Frazier and Luis Medina for Greg Holland, Michael A. Taylor, and Hanser Alberto
That’s not bad.
Although the one real strength of our squad is the ‘pen so I’m not sure Holland would be all that helpful.
But if not Marte, I think the best fallback option would be Taylor. Yanks can’t keep running Judge out there in Center.
Not sure trading Frazier and a top 10 prospect just so you don’t start Judge in CF against LHP is a good use of assets. Taylor and his 77 ops+ actually hits RH better. Holland (5+ fip) and Alberto offer nothing in terms of upgrade.
Why would the Yankees do that trade? I wouldn’t even trade Frazier and his years of control alone for those 3 scrubs. Do better.
I’d trade Frazier & a back end top 30 prospect for those three. I get it. They’d all be merely incremental upgrades. But upgrades are upgrades.
I am sold on Miggy in left. Meaning I view Clint as superfluous. He & Gleyber have been huge disappointments.
Did Cashman just ask to get fired? Obviously, any manager who can’t get a line up like that to be productive, has to go.
I guess Cashman is ready to retire or prove himself elsewhere.
I wonder if the Yankees have enough money left to sign Tanaka for half of a season and stay under the luxury tax. Just a thought. Hope cashman reads TradeRumors