The Yankees announced the placement of reliever Ron Marinaccio on the 15-day injured list this afternoon, retroactive to October 3. He’s dealing with a stress reaction in his right shin. Bullpen mate Albert Abreu is back from the 15-day IL to take the vacated spot on the active roster.
The IL placement rules Marinaccio out for the American League Division Series. Manager Aaron Boone expressed optimism he could return for the AL Championship Series, should the Yankees advance (via Bryan Hoch of MLB.com). It doesn’t seem like an especially long-term concern, but the issue is serious enough the Yanks will have to play their ALDS without a reliever who’d have otherwise been very likely to make the playoff roster.
A former 19th-round pick, Marinaccio has overcome a lack of fanfare as a prospect to emerge as a solid bullpen option. He was added to the 40-man roster last offseason and made his big league debut this April, kicking off a successful rookie campaign. The Delaware product has appeared in 40 games and tallied 44 innings, posting a 2.05 ERA. He’s induced swinging strikes on a very strong 13.9% of his offerings and has punched out opponents at a robust 30.9% clip. A 13.3% walk rate certainly isn’t ideal, but Marinaccio has shown the ability to miss plenty of bats and limit damaging contact against left-handed and right-handed hitters alike.
Abreu steps into the vacated roster spot for the final couple days of the regular season. He’s been out since mid-August due to inflammation in his throwing elbow. The out-of-options righty has bounced between a trio of teams this year. Sent from the Yankees to the Rangers before Opening Day in the deal that landed José Trevino in the Bronx, Abreu struggled mightily in Texas. The Rangers traded him to the Royals. He didn’t stick in Kansas City either, and the Yankees eventually brought him back off waivers.
The 27-year-old has pitched pretty well for the Yankees, posting a 3.24 ERA with a 24.2% strikeout rate over 25 innings. He’s only walked 5.7% of batters faced in pinstripes after struggling mightily with free passes in both Arlington and Kansas City. The Yankees have nevertheless mostly deployed Abreu in low-leverage situations, so he seems more of a borderline candidate to land a playoff roster spot.
I am so happy that Aaron Judges home run chase is so often being played on MLBN because I get to see guys in (primarily) the ALE that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise being a Dodgers fan. I’ve gotten to see marinaccio a handful of times and I like his stuff a lot, good gem find by the Yanks!
Is lack of fanfare really something that has to be overcome?
Saw this kid pitch on tv for the first time recently. Friggin nasty
Another quality Yankee relief pitcher injured because that sack of no goodness Arolids Chapman couldn’t get out of a jam.
Uggh. That’s a blow. Their bullpen has been depleted with injuries but they manufacture swing-and-miss relievers as well as any team. No time to recover on this one. Abreu is not a suitable replacement. Hope he’s back for the ALCS.
If you don’t make the playoff roster, do you still travel with the team during the playoffs?
Some likely do for injury purposes.
They are going to have to get it done with their SP which scares me outside of Nasty. Cole is such a wildcard factor with his Jekyll and Hyde performances and Sevy has squeezed the ball way too tight in his past playoff performances and never made it deep at all. This bullpen doesn’t have the talent or depth of years past that can make up for an early exit from their SP.
Sevy has pitched quite well lately while pitching deeper into games.
I like the yankees rotation its the offense that scares me. I believe if the yankees offense shows up. They will make it to tge world series
In order: DJL, Torres, and JD all need to hit as opposed to throwing up 0-for-# with 2 walks.
Speaking of Cole… I don’t like the ideology that “we are starting him because he’s our ace.” Why? Because the next sentence, if the thought is finished, is: “And, Cole is our ace because we paid him the most.”
They need to start the best SP for the postseason, not the guy that makes the most money, or the guy who [should] be the best. He’s just not right now.
Hopefully Cole proves his $325MM worth this postseason. But, history doesn’t favor the odds in his case.
Sevy has been really, really good. Certainly #2-level stuff, and borderline ace at times.
Fast Ball get hit VERY hard a la COLE, ABREU, CHAPMAN LOAISIGA,,needs to pitch no to throw
COLE needs to chear his money with the Yankees AS (Nestor Cortes)
Congrats Aaron Judge on #62!
*The* MLB single-season HR leader.
-Take a backseat, Barry PED Bonds, Judge did it without that huge needle, er , cloud of suspicion.
Kid’s middle name is James. Idk about you guys but Jimmy Marinaccio sounds like a boxer or a gangster.. Get well soon Ron.
I don’t care if Cole strikes out the world. Those long balls have disaster written all over them in the postseason. So far, 33 HR in 33 starts, the most in the AL. If they give him the ball in the first game of the playoffs because they insist on calling him the team ace, they’re asking for trouble.
Over 1.5x the major league average for HR/FB % rate… wow. I did notice, with the HR graphic during the Toronto series, that Cole’s HRs are mostly off FBs in the center line of the zone. So, guys are sitting on his FB somewhere near the middle and getting a jump. But, that’s where Cole must adjust, as we often hear Coney discuss. Cole tends to try to power through hitters and becomes predictable to a degree. When he maximizes his pitching IQ and becomes unpredictable, he’s excellent at freezing hitters (see some of Vlad’s ABs against Cole).
1. Barry Bonds (36) 73 2001
2. Mark McGwire (34) 70 1998
3. Sammy Sosa (29) 66 1998
4. Mark McGwire (35) 65 1999
5. Sammy Sosa (32) 64 2001
6. Sammy Sosa (30) 63 1999
7. Aaron Judge (30) 62 2022
Alex Rodriguez admitted in 2009 to using steroids from 2001 to 2003 while with the Texas Rangers. In 2013, Rodriguez was caught again, and banned for the entire 2014 season.
In a 2005 book, slugger and admitted steroid user Jose Canseco outed Clemens as a steroid user. In 2007, his name was mentioned 82 times in the Mitchell Report, which was a report on steroid use in the game.
Andy Pettitte has admitted to using human growth hormone to recover from a 2002 elbow injury. He said that Roger Clemens’ trainer at the time hooked him up with the drugs.
Jason Giambi has admitted using steroids. He reportedly used it several times from 2001 to 2003. He’s also admitted using human growth hormone.
Melky Cabrera played for the Yankees from 2005-09. In 2012, while with the Giants, he received a 50-game suspension after testing positive for high levels of testosterone.
Francisco Cervelli was suspended 50 games for his links to the Biogenesis scandal in 2013. He didn’t battle the suspension. He said he never got anything from Biogenesis, but that he just went there on a recommendation from a friend and spoke to employees.
Jesus Montero, a former top Yankees catching prospect, was suspended 50 games for testing positive for a banned stimulant in 2016.
In 2004, Sheffield admitted using a testosterone-based steroid that was given to him by BALCO after Barry Bonds introduced him to the laboratory. He said he didn’t know what he was using was a steroid.
Jose Canseco is the poster boy for steroid use in MLB. He played one season for the Yankees in 2000.
Chuck Knoblauch, a former Yankees second baseman, was named in the Mitchell Report. The report named him as a customer of Roger Clemens’ trainer, Brian McNamee.
Aaron Judge can thank the Yankees for their contributions to the culture that destroyed a record that he cannot be recognized for in any way shape or form other than 7th place.
What goes around comes around. 7th place.
Not very lucky at all.
The Yankees can stuff it.
Your ethics stink to high heaven. You have zero evidence that Judge ever cheated, but you post this gutless character assassination by innuendo because you’re so effed-up with hatred for the Yankees. You should be ashamed, but it’s apparent that you lack the capacity.
You root for the Mets, who’ve had five players suspended for PEDs compared to the Yankees’ three. Their clubhouse dope dealer, Kirk Radomski, was one of the key witnesses in the Mitchell Report. They brought Cano on board AFTER he tested positive and then he tested positive again in Flushing. They harbored Jenrry Mejia, the only PED cheat to be caught three times and banned.
What a hypocrite you are.
You are missing my point completely. So let me explain. I hate all cheating. Look at the years of home runs more than Judge. They’re in a short period of time. In that same period of time the Yankees had cheaters helping them win. So the Yankees contributed to the culture of cheating. That is beyond dispute! Now, two decades later, Judge might have broken one of the most sacred of baseball records EXCEPT for the cheaters! I find it ironic. And the Yankee are the hypocrites.
I got your sorry “point” all right.
You hate all cheating — except when the cheaters are on any team other than the Yankees, including the Mets and Red Sox. You’re so hypocritical and warped with bias, I doubt you can smell the stink of the trash you’re posting.
Again, you’re missing my point. If not for cheating, Judge would have the record.
Now, wouldn’t that be great? I am saying it would be great. But cheating has ruined it.
Oh, and how did they treat Maris when he broke the record? Like crap. Aaron? Death threats. Seriously, records are supposed to be celebrated. But thanks to MLB and the need to make money and win championships, they’ve become meaningless. That’s my point.
If you want to think something else that’s fine. I’m just the messenger. I’m telling you, Judge’s accomplishment means nothing. And that’s sad.
Right. Because Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa all played for the Yankees.
Oh, wait . . .
Yes, some lowlife Yankee fans were vicious to Roger Maris. And it was only Yankees fans who made death threats against Henry Aaron.
Oh, wait . . .
Who do you think you’re kidding? You saw an opportunity to post another anti-Yankees rant in a tiresome series, and you went for it, trying to scapegoat a single team for a steroids scandal that touched all 30 teams, including any that you root for — but only one team’s cheaters incite your selective moral outrage. You pretend it’s all about cheating when it’s obviously all about the Yankees.
The only part about the Yankees is the irony that their player just hit 62 home runs and that they, as much or more than any other team, embraced steroid use by rewarding known PED users with huge contracts. Everything else is targeting Major League Baseball as a whole. I’m sorry you can get that nuance. I understand that I am so often anti Yankee which creates an illusion that I am always anti Yankee. Here, I am anti baseball. They have ruined Aaron Judge’s accomplishment. It’s just more delicious that he happens to play on the Yankees. As much as you want it to be, it’s not all about the Yankees.
Oh, please. Reread your first post, a litany of Yankees implicated in PED use, even though every one of them played for other teams too. You tried to get over with the absurd suggestion that somehow the Yankees’ bad example inspired all the other PED cheats in baseball, and particularly Bonds, McGwire and Sosa:
“Aaron Judge can thank the Yankees for their contributions to the culture that destroyed a record that he cannot be recognized for in any way shape or form other than 7th place.”
Now you’re backpedaling like Ginger Rogers to reinterpret what you said and pretend it wasn’t a slam at the Yankees.
Just drop it.
Glad you have your own interpretation.
It’s wrong.
If you think the Yankees weren’t a part of the whole PED era, you’re smoking something. If you think the Yankees didn’t REWARD PED users, you’re inhaling. Those are simple obtainable facts. More than any other team! Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera won because of cheater teammates. That’s not opinion or interpretation, THAT IS FACT.
Put your big boy pants on and deal with the consequences of your favorite team pooping the bed for their future stars. The Yankees crapped all over Major League Baseball.
TRUTH.
Deal with it.
Sure took you a while to cop to it, but there it is — another anti-Yankee rant . . . all along . . . like I said.
Well, I am a one trick pony.