The Yankees announced they’ve activated first baseman Anthony Rizzo from the COVID-19 injured list. He’s in tonight’s lineup against the archrival Red Sox, hitting second. Additionally, closer Aroldis Chapman is back from the 10-day IL. In corresponding moves, outfielder Jonathan Davis and reliever Nick Nelson were optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
To create space for Rizzo on the 40-man roster, New York activated outfielder Trey Amburgey from the 10-day IL and returned him to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Because Amburgey was originally selected to the big league roster as a replacement for a player who had gone on the COVID-19 IL, he could be removed from the 40-man and sent back to the minors without being placed on waivers.
Rizzo returns ten days after testing positive for the coronavirus. For the first time, he’ll pair with Luke Voit, who was activated from his own IL stint at the time Rizzo landed on the shelf. It’s an abundance of offensive riches for the Yankees, who’ll have to also find playing time for Joey Gallo, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton between the outfield, first base and designated hitter.
Chapman landed on the IL on August 7 with inflammation in his throwing elbow. While a bit of an ominous-sounding diagnosis, it turned out to only require a near-minimal stint. In his absence, Chad Green, Zack Britton and Jonathan Loáisiga picked up save opportunities, but that role will again fall to Chapman, manager Aaron Boone confirmed to reporters (via Erik Boland of Newsday). The hard-throwing southpaw rebounded from a dreadful few weeks in the middle of the season to post seven consecutive scoreless outings leading up to his IL stint.
The Yankees have almost completely bounced back from the spread of COVID-19 in the clubhouse over the past couple weeks. Reliever Clay Holmes is the only player remaining on the COVID IL for the red-hot Yankees, who have won twelve of their last fifteen to catch the Red Sox and A’s in the American League Wild Card race.
100 million floor should be pretty enticing for the mlbpa, I didn’t expect them to come in that high.
I bet the orioles trade for guys with high AAV and front loaded contracts, so they can meet the requirements and still not pay anybody.
Does Chris Davis count toward meeting the floor for the next 16 years?
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Yankees are back at full health! this is awesome!
Not yet still waiting on Torres and Ushela
More than Gio & Gleyber we could use some of our starters back. If we can get 2 of Sevy, Kluber, or German sometime in September that should be enough for October.
This is more important because: Andrew Heaney.
Who…man, he’s making it hard for me to root for him.
@Ducky I don’t think we’re gonna see Severino this season it’s one thing after another for him but Kluber might help along with Gil. Those two could help bolster the rotation. German well who knows what we’ll get there he’s like Jekyll and Hyde.
German, Kluber, severino, Schmidt and king. If one or two of them return to semi normal form, rotation will be in even better shape
Here we go then.
Getting our guys back.
A couple months ago, watching this team was like a punishment. Man. Just such Ugly Baseball. & truthfully, nearly all of our wins through this hot streak have been ugly. We have accrued no style points.
Keep winning games/series though. So.
I’m pretty impressed by how this squad has hung in there. We’ve certainly been overcoming our share of travails too, ya know? This club doesn’t seem to really care to do things the easy way.
But we’re a good team. & we’re still the damn Yankees. Looks like we’ll be running the Rays down next.
Bet.
Go Yanks.
red sox suck.
LOL@Ducky! We’re almost back to full strength, just a few more pieces. It’s been ugly pretty much all year, hardly any stress free games but from 9.5 in July to where we are now is remarkable it’s almost like 1978. God, I hate Boston!
We have so many TTO guys.
& before Gallo & Rizzo our “defense” was awful to have watch every night. We went from being a really conservative team on the base paths that did all kinds of dumb stuff to a mildly aggressive team on the base paths that still does all kinds of dumb stuff.
An endless parade of relievers. Sketchy starting pitching. Man.
Some very aesthetically unappealing baseball.
But: we always fought.
I cannot help but respect that. We learned how. That’s a big deal.
If we can just survive Andrew Heaney.
Heaney has been decent so far tonight. Knocking out Pivetta early was good but need to tack on more runs in case Heaney blows up. It’s pathetic that the Yankee offense can’t get going against a mediocre pitcher such as Trevor Richards!
1 earned through 7.
Real nice outing, serious.
The Angels guys on the board assured me that Heaney would fling a gem every so often. Gem flung.
Alright. Let’s get Britton going here.
Gotta get Chappy in now.
@BleacherCreature –
Good call.
Pitching a gem vs Boston is huge. Chapman’s command is all over the place but luckily Hernandez being a free swinger helped.
Throwing all sliders after the homer.
Sweet, a sweep! Especially how the Yanks started against them losing 8 straight. Boston is 2-12 in last 14 road game.
We’ve seen so many Yankee wins like this one: 13 LOB, 9th inning bullpen shenanigans, Booner with all the creativity of a lemur.
Finished off the sweep for a change though.
Did it to a pretty good ballclub too.
& in doing so – considering the situation – absolutely punched that team in the face. Noice.
Got the Twins tomorrow.
Should be our 13th series win of the last 14 we’ve played.
And that’s a significant problem because his slider pretty much sucks….but its effective when he can throw the fastball at 95+….without worrying about that fastball, batters will sit on that slider and kill it!
I would have absolutely taken 1 earned through 5.
See what else he can do.
Didn’t get back until the game started. First pitch I saw was a jack. Done a real nice job since that.
Yeah, I mean sure, we had low expectations for him, but he’s essentially a walking dumpster fire.
Yeah, it was very frustrating to watch and it was so disgusting that I literally said that I’d rather watch paint dry.
At first I thought it sai, that the Yankees acquire …..
Where is Kluber, Sevy, Devi Garcia, Clark Schmidt. I’m so done with Heaney
Rehabbing, Rehabbing, Sucking in AAA, Probably Done For the Season.
I am too. We just have nobody else, bro.
What a win by the Mets today…. They gotten so unlucky in this west coast. But the other teams deserved to win too. They didn’t get lucky. All the games have been really good expect 1…
Heh.
metsfan22 is here. No problem, son. You can hang out with us. Had I suffered the misfortune of being a mets fan I’d make the same choice.
Lot more fun here, uh?
Mets22. Did you see what Steve Cohen said about his team? They can’t hit. They weren’t unlucky they just aren’t good. The Reds and/or the Phillies will overtake them. They won’t even make the playoffs.
Sir, this is an Arby’s.
I’m so over Stanton at this point. I say put him out there and if he gets hurt he gets hurt. Put some big boy pants on already all that money and the dude can’t run?? What other team pays a DH this kind of money?
Well…the red sox do. For starters.
@metsfan you should change your screen name. I bet YanksFan22 is available. Anyway nice win for Mets today they have been sinking faster than the Titanic
He’s still a productive player when healthy even when he may not be earning his pay.
Good win!! I forgot what good SS defense looks like.
The shame of it is Torres NEVER would have been able to stop that ball in the hole let alone throw the runner out…….and thank God Rizzo was playing first…..Voit also would have NEVER made that pick
The Yankees need to offseason to figure this infield situation out…..having an average SS with a pitching staff that pitches to ground ball contact is and will always create problems…..and having a GG first baseman like Rizz certainly helps even though its not a surety that Rizzo will re-sign based on preference and $$. Voit is a good player but not that left-handed bat and GG defense you see with Rizz!
Not an expert obviously, but 100 to 180 seems like a push free agency wise. Less mega deals and a few amplified smaller signings to reach salary floors- but even then I see an uptick in homegrown extensions more so than FA splurges.
Ultimately, something in the neighborhood of 100/225 or no salary floor is more realistic than this proposal.
I was a believer that Torres was going to be the face of the Yankees. Now I know he’s not. Volpe or Peraza are coming to take his job. I’d consider trading Torres if Yankees can bring back Rizzo. The main problem the Yankees have is all assets Torres, Frazier, Andujar, etc value couldn’t get any lower.
Luke Voit needs to go this winter. Did you notice in is interview the other day, everyting was I,I,I,I,I I want this, I need this, I deserved this Everything was I ,no where did he say we.
Velasquez with a triple and Higgy a double now that’s the I want too see the Yanks score. Velasquez has been impressive especially with the glove, hope to see more of him!
He (Velazquez) has played pretty well for us.
I hope he’s an All Star caliber player. Or maybe he can turn out like Gio.
Yet, I have my doubts.
I’m not near ready to give up on Gleyber. When he gets going we’ve seen him carry us. I can’t help but remember that.
Another Ugly Yankee Win tonight.
I will take it.
Yankees started same way tonight as yesterday, 4 runs in 1 inning and a 2 run shot, hope they can tack on more runs tonight. Even though the Twins are not a good team this year their offensive numbers are better than NYs but their pitching is bad.
And so did the ones he shares the clubhouse with.
Rizzo didn’t look healthy at all tonight against Twins.
Forget Rizzo and Davis, Rob Refsynder is back! Batting .290 for the Twins, Refsynder has finally found his way. The Yanks could use him now. Why did they ever give up on him?
Love how the Yankees are finally having some team speed. It’s a must on any great team. It causes so many problems. Gardy doesn’t have much life in his bat anymore but ideally the Yankees just need him to play good defense and cause problems on base.