Yankees right-hander Scott Effross will require Tommy John surgery, reports Jack Curry of the YES Network. The news is an ill-timed blow to the Yankees, who are just about to begin the ALDS and will be without a key piece of their bullpen.
Effross, 28, made his MLB debut last year, throwing 14 2/3 innings with the Cubs with a 3.68 ERA. Here in 2022, he took his game to another level, throwing 44 more frames with Chicago, registering a 2.66 ERA, 28.1% strikeout rate, 6.2% walk rate and 45.6% ground ball rate. The Yankees were impressed enough by that showing to acquire him at the deadline, sending pitching prospect Hayden Wesneski the other way.
Effross continued to be effective once coming to the Bronx, adding another 12 2/3 innings with a 2.13 ERA, earning three saves and three holds while pitching in high-leverage situations despite missing about a month with a shoulder strain. He would have been in line to be an important member of the club’s relief corps in the postseason but will now miss the remainder of the playoffs and the entirety of the 2023 season as well.
This certainly isn’t the first hit that the Yankee bullpen has taken this year, as Chad Green also required Tommy John back in May. Zack Britton was placed on the 60-day IL earlier this month due to shoulder fatigue. Michael King suffered a season-ending elbow fracture in July. Ron Marinaccio was placed on the 15-day IL a week ago and won’t be an option for the ALDS, though he could potentially return later in the postseason if the Yankees advance. In addition to all of those injury woes, Aroldis Chapman has been struggling this season and then skipped a team workout last week. Due to his truancy, the team fined him and left him off the ALDS roster. The Yanks will now have to try to navigate the remainder of the postseason with a depleted bullpen group.
Going forward, Effross will miss the entirety of his age-29 season. He has just over one year of MLB service time and won’t be arbitration eligible until after the 2024 season. The Yankees can keep him on their 60-day IL all of next season, although there’s no injured list between the end of the season and the start of Spring Training, meaning Effross will be need a roster spot from November to February.
That trade suddenly looks like a steal for CHC.
Not to mention that the Cubs got rid of a guy whose name could serve as a really bad chant for their manager.
Funny
That is really sad to see. Effross was just starting to come into his own and now this. I was on the fence about this trade but after Wesneski ‘s debut it looked like one of those ” Good for both teams” Trades. Speedy recovery to Effross.
Like a steal? The guy has multiple years of control remaining. He won’t even be arb eligible when he returns.
It’s not what you want.
Really? Thanks for informing me!
Consider yourself informed!
Average commenter doesn’t know Joe Girardi.
Wonder if Beltran will have the trashcans ready for tonight’s game in NY?
Back to school with you. You are not even a level 1 troll.
I can’t even read the comments on here most of the time anymore lol. Just too many obnoxious trolls looking for attention. It’s tiresome to have to mute 80 percent of the commenters on here
This is not good.
I have never seen such a smart comment section
I am glad you got the opportunity. Maybe it will help you become AboveAverageCommenter.
We have Chappy…? Haha! Actually, this will necessitate Abreau being on the roster, I believe. He can be used to eat innings, but he cannot be put in high-leverage situations.
Curious to see how they handle this one. Effross is obviously a big loss for our ‘pen. Our Boys better step up or they’re gonna get trounced.
Not sure why MLBTR hasn’t posted the Yankees roster as they announced it a few hours back.
And Abreu is not on the roster. I suspect they’ll lean on Taillon and German more out of the pen.
Probably because they want to take their time writing articles, to make sure they put out the best product, for the 2022 World Series champs.
I can’t believe they left Peraza off the roster in favor of Marwin! Why? That makes no sense at all to me. Peraza is a much better hitter and At least as good, if not better, SS than Marwin. Ugh!
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With DJL out (probably for the playoffs), they need Marwin’s defensive versatility to also cover third.
Why not slide IKF or Cabrera over there? Then put Peraza at SS where he belongs. Instead, they lose Peraza (their own future SS, which is stupid) so they can keep IKF at SS? That’s just plain dumb imo.
I don’t get the whole “IKF has to play SS because he has played SS this year,” anyway. Peraza is better on both sides of the ball than IKF. IKF should be the new Marwin, dump Marwin… it’s just a bad decision for a number of reasons, imho.
“Playoffs tested”. For the same reasons Cole is starting Game 1. I agree with playing the hot hand and Marwin has been ice cold all year.
Hey, if we had our camera in CF to tell him which pitches were coming, I’d be all for keeping him. But without knowing which pitches are coming, he’s not very good.
No, he said the Yankees, not the Astros
I want Peraza there, at minimum, for defense. My fear, like many Yankee fans, is IFK is going to bobble the ball at a key moment. He already did on the first play of tonight’s game.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE STEAL BY JED AND THE CUBS.
It certainly looks that way at the moment, but Effross isn’t old and they still control him for many years so they should still get good use out of him down the road. Real shame for Scott this season though, maybe for Tony too.
The Cubs appear to have gotten the better of that trade., but they are still a sub .500 team.
Just like the Cubs got the the ” Better” of the Kimbrel trade. Kimbrel stunk for the Sox but Heuer and Madrigal haven’t even played a half a season between them for the Cubs. I wouldn’t cackle TOO loudly. It sucks for NY and Effross.
I wouldn’t expect non-fans to have noticed, but the Cubs were 8 games over .500 in the 2nd half. The rotation got healthy and reinforced, and they stopped giving hundreds of ABs to the worst hitters.
Thank you, Matt. Every team has injuries but the Cubs suffered through an extended period of time with Stroman, Hendricks, Miley and Smyly on the IL at the same time (not to mention Mills and Alzolay, also). Whether they are great or not, when you have six of your top seven (Steele) heading into camp all out at the same time, you are going to struggle.
You can only survive so long trotting out the Leiters and Swarmers of the world.
However, it provided a ton of ability to see Thompson develop (maybe Sampson, maybe Assad),learn that Kilian wasn’t ready and learn that guys like Newcomb, etc. aren’t part of the future.
Also dead on with your hitter comment…..although Villar was even worse in the field than in the box.
But did get enough of a look that Schwindel wasn’t for real, Ortega is a non tender and Rivas isn’t an answer.
And now if only Jed would realize that Wisdombisnnot good. Some power, yes, but strikes out too much h.
That is coming, coop. They tried desperately to see if Morel can play third in September (oh boy, he cannot)……but I’m sure Wisdom is no lock for a roster spot going forward.
I know Wisdom was playing with/off a broken finger but him playing multiple positions late was more of a function of getting extra time in the infield for Morel and McKinstry in search of that 25th/26th man next year.
Injuries are completely unpredictable. I don’t think that’s a value metric for a trade, honestly. I respect the fact that the Cubbies may have gotten the better end of the deal despite the Effross injury.
But, an injury subsequent to a trade isn’t getting a “steal” imho. If so, and Weisneski gets injured next year when Effross returns, does that mean the Yankees then “stole” the deal back?
The Yankees have Effross for five more years, so plenty of time for fans to needlessly argue about who won a trade. : -)
shh…
Think I’ll get Johnny Holmes surgery. It’ll increase my “in”nings.
So you’re basically telling us that you’re too small? Ah, got it. Thanks for sharing.
“… while pitching in high-leverage situations despite missing about a month with a shoulder strain.”
Another burned out Yankee relief pitcher. Sad how many they do this to. They never learn.
it says he pitched 12 2/3 innings., that qualifies as burned out. ?
12 2/3 innings in one month. That’s 70+ innings for a season. And he barely made it to the majors last year. Not easy innings, but lots of high leverage situations. So yes, burned out.
Oh the horror, 12 innings in a month. How will a pitcher ever survive? JFC
When you use a guy close to every other game and you ask him to shut the other team down every single time as opposed to just giving him work when he’s rested? That alone is not a problem. However, he was a newbie with no durability track record. Plus he had been in 47 games over 4 months with the Cubs. So, yes, he didn’t survive.
They didn’t bring this guy in off the street. He’s a major leaguer. 12 innings is nothing.
He’s not burned out from twelve innings. You do know that seventy innings isn’t enough to burn a guy like that out right? I mean if you can’t throw seventy innings in a season without getting burned out then why bother?
Suffering a significant injury this close to the finish line has to be deflating.
A long year of rehab awaits.
Hope he can come back and be effective.
Call up Chapman in Miami ?
Still have Castro and Weissert as options.
Feel bad for the guy. He DID do well for the Yankees, and now it will be an off-season 40 man spot, or a DFA depending on whether they decide to keep him or that failed prospect Deivi Garcia.
He’d never survive waivers to be outrighted. The Cubs would take him back on waivers in a heartbeat even at the cost of a winter 40 man spot and probably losing someone in Rule 5.
There’s literally zero chance he gets DFAed.
I have never seen so many injuries especially to pitchers…..what the??
I’m a Yankees fan and despite NY’s injury troubles, no team has had it worse than the Rays when it comes to pitching staff injuries this season.
You can’t do much about it. Lucky for the Yankees they match up well against Cleveland so it may not be a big deal yet. They can use some of their other starters in long relief. If they get through this series, then it may prove a more significant loss.
“meaning Effross will be need a roster spot from November to February.”
Darragh I think this needs to be edited
Why? Was the meaning not clear? You must have been so proud of yourself to find an error.
Waiting for the Cub fans to start proclaiming the 33rd round pick is a staple of the future rebuild.
He is electric. I wouldn’t put too much into when he was drafted, he was drafted. And we all know how crazy the pandemic effected the scouting work. Harder to find starters, cubs have a ton of relief. He looks more like the former than the latter.
And he was a 6th round draft pick. 33rd by the rays and he went to play college instead. A ton of guys do this… not sure what you are trying to get at it with that.
Some folks just hate the Cubs so much, it’s all they can do. I just feel pity for such folks.
You think this is a staple wait until Alcantara trade for Rizzo hits the outfield in two years. Between those deals and Crow Armstrong for Baez those NY teams have been a nice pipeline for the Cubs.
I would still use him and waste him. We still got plenty to go around like the grilled whole chicken at Costco.
The Yankees will probably beat the Guardians however they will not beat the Astros or the Dodgers!!
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More brilliance by the GM for life.
Neither of his deadline deal pitchers made it healthy to the post season.
Perhaps it’s time for the Yankees to consider switching the doctors they use to evaluate the “medicals” on players they’re considering trading for.
I like Effross, he’s very good, but I do wonder how he ended up with these issues so soon after the trade. Who knows? Only the Cubs. And Effross.
Irresponsible comment.
Irresponsible Handle. No one says Oriental anymore.
Irresponsible handle. No one says Oriental anymore
This season isn’t even over yet and the Yankees bullpen has already been dealt a blow for next season
I cannot believe Hick instead of Cabrera. Cabrera is not an automatic K, his defense is stellar, and he has an arm in the outfield. Plus, his head is in the game as Hicks in the last month made at least half of dozen mental errors.
My error as I see Cabrera is in the lineup tonight. Just following on some faulty roster information. My apology.
This makes the trade for Hayden Wesneski look more of a steal. Wesneski is a legit #2.