The Yankees announced Tuesday that they’ve reinstated Carlos Rodon from the 15-day injured list, recalled infielder Oswald Peraza and outfield prospect Everson Pereira from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, placed outfielder Billy McKinney on the 10-day injured list due to back spasms, and designated outfielder Greg Allen for assignment. The recalls of Peraza and Pereira were reported on yesterday.
Allen, 30, will lose his spot on the active and 40-man rosters to clear the way for Pereira to enter the outfield mix in the Bronx. Allen is out of minor league options, so he can’t be sent down without first clearing waivers. He appeared in 22 games for the Yankees since returning to the organization but received just 28 plate appearances in that time (during which he went 5-for-23 with a pair of walks and 10 strikeouts). Allen has been used primarily as a pinch-runner and defensive replacement late in games.
That’s a role with which Allen has become increasingly familiar over the years. The fleet-footed switch-hitter hasn’t topped 134 plate appearances in a big league season since 2019 and has never tallied 300 trips to the plate in a given season. Allen is a career .231/.300/.340 hitter with 11 home runs and a 48-for-57 showing in stolen bases (84%) at the MLB level. He’s played all three outfield spots extensively and draws above-average marks at each, per Statcast. Defensive Runs Saved pegs him as a plus left fielder but a lesser option in center field.
Allen’s brand of speed and defense could prompt a clear postseason contender to consider him on waivers in the next few days. Rosters will expand from 26 to 28 players on Sept. 1, and as long as Allen is with a new organization at 11:59pm ET or earlier on Aug. 31, he’d be eligible for postseason play with that new club. It’s relatively common for teams to carry pinch-running and defensive specialists in such settings, so Allen isn’t a lock to make it through waivers. If he does go unclaimed, he’ll be able to reject an outright assignment in favor of free agency and sign with any team.
Rodon will look to get into a good groove and carry some momentum into 2024. He signed a six-year, $162MM deal in the offseason but hasn’t yet been able to provide the Yanks with any return on that investment yet. He dealt with forearm and back issues early in the year and wasn’t able to make his team debut until July. He struggled through six starts, posting a 7.33 ERA, before landing back on the IL due to a hamstring strain.
The Yankee season has largely been sunk by injuries, including those of Rodon but also many others. They are now 60-64 and 9.5 games back of a playoff spot with just over a month left on the schedule. Their playoff odds are down to 0.4% at FanGraphs. But both the club and Rodon would surely be encouraged if he could post some good starts before the offseason gets going, carrying some good feelings into the winter.
Who is going to be the second man out? If I had to guess, I’d assume they might send Cabrera back to AAA.
Then again, they might just send down a reliever like Weissert.
Weissert was already sent down after Sunday’s game to make space for Rodon.
Bauers need to be remove from the roster, tell that he is better than Florial?
Bauers is a much better first baseman than Florial. Until Rizzo returns, Bauers has to stay.
They have some time to decide since McKinney put on the IL. When he gets off he might be the odd man out. Or Cabrera gets sent down like you said.
We’re all just waiting for the Yankees fire Cashman and Boone article.
We would all of that. But it’s not happening.
In the not so distant past after getting swept by the Red Sox for the second time in a season George would have fired Boone and Cashman before the Red Sox players finished high-fiving eachother on the field
They all would have been gone in 2017, after losing to the Astros the first time.
The manager did get fired after 2017.
Such gratitude Yankees. The guy came within a couple of inches of possibly ending the losing streak and he’s gone. Maybe it also has something to do with the fact that he’s not very good.
Who, Allen? This is good for him. He still gets paid, and he is the kind of specialized player that actually gets picked up by teams for the postseason.
Rodon got hurt opening his eyes when he woke up this morning and was immediately placed on the 60 day injured list.
He’ll injure his elbow trying to pick up his wallet next month
Do not worry, Scott Boras will be there to make sure his wallet is picked up.
I saw Pereira a couple of weeks ago in Scranton. He had a couple of throws from the outfield which were really not good. Missing the cutoff man, or nowhere close to the base where he was throwing.
I have a feeling that MLB teams are going to test him continuously until he proves that his defense is major league quality.
Defense does not have to be superior as Yankees problem is offense! They have aging veterans that cannot even make contact let alone a hit. I’ll take my chances with Pieria, Peraza, Wells and Dominquez whom i really believe has an excellent chance of being with 2024 club. Torres should be dealt for pitching and Bader should be avoided at all cost as he is a injury waiting to happen once signed long term.
Scouts have him above-average defensively with plus arm strength.
“Rearranging deck chairs” ring a bell? Except good ship Yankee is already on the bottom of the Atlantic.
Is the goofy Sean Casey experiment already over?
Yankees have to blame someone, so he’ll probably get canned at the of the season and that’s who the front office will blame.
Good thing the Yankees fired so many seasoned, trained scouts, trainers and coaches the last several years, to bring in new age, inexperienced, Ivy League “analytics” specialists. Oh wait, that was actually a disaster. Never mind.
Since Casey took over the Yankees as team are 29th in MLB in hitting (.227). 30th in hits, 28th in runs scored, 27th in OPS, 29th in slugging and 22nd in Home Runs. The only positive is they are 4th in Walks. Cashman may need to stop hiring coaches off of tv…
So Yankees. DFA the genuine defensive replacement and/or perfectly good spot starter, and keep the defensively challenged “might hit a HR” guy who over the past month or so has a 40% strikeout rate as pitchers have learned that he can’t actually hit.
Yes I would have DFA’d McKinney instead.
They needed to make two ML roster moves and one 40 man move. Releasing McKinney and keeping Allen means they would have had to send Cabrera to AAA; which may have made sense if they were trying to contend for a playoff spot, but not so much if they are focused on “playing the kids”.
if you mean bauers it’s too soon to give up on him. stick him at first and see if he figures it out (again)
I do, and he has been DFA’d by Tampa, Cleveland, and Seattle already. He has never figured it out. He had a good month, bank it and move on.
and his strikeout rate is higher
The Yankees analytics team vetoed the fork and opted for a spork.
I hope they give these youngsters more of a chance than they gave Florial.
“They gave Florial”…Baseball is not a charity or a “participation trophy”. If the Yankees thought that Florial could help them, he’d be in today’s lineup. In my estimation, the Yankees do not feel he can help them win and that’s why he remains in AAA.
He remains in AAA because his strikeout% is high. A handful of sporatic at bats is not a try. They gave Bauer more of a try, and he’s not a true outfielder.
@mlb fan- less then 100 at bats for a player is giving him basically no chance. If the Yankees gave him over 300 at bats and Florial is not performing then that’s another thing. How could you say he has not succeeded, when he’s had no chance? That’s ridiculous.
he’s been given 56 AB’s in the majors.
Because the Yankees track record of evaluating personnel has been soooo great for the past decade. (Eyes rolling)
To quote Charlie Brown as to this sad sack team “I can’t Stand It”
Good grief
Didn’t they also call up a fork to stick in the Yankees (because they’re done)?
They couldn’t, the fork was already on the injured list.
General rule: if you have to explain the joke, its not a good joke.
The fork is already here, Boone .
Boone the fork is already here
at least the yankees improved their roster balance. there are now 3 (and change) outfielders and 847 infielders
Still doesn’t beat San Diego’s 878 shortstops.
Addition by subtraction
Greg Allen will get claimed unlike Estevan Florial who passed through waivers earlier in the season.
That being said Estevan Florial has a lot more upside then Greg Allen. Florial has more power, is a better defensive player, and has the same kind of speed. Florial can bat 8th or 9th in the lineup, or even lst in the Yankees lineup where he’d see more fastballs. We can’t judge Florial when he’s had no opportunity to prove himself, that’s my point.
Rodon,Rendon interchangeable on the IL. Add Stanton for the trifecta.
Rodon, Rendon, and Stanton. Call us if you think you have suffered a debilitating injury. We get paid whether you do or don’t.
So…does this mean the Yankee-Mets World Series is off?
Probably.
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
So what happens on the 10th straight loss? Or the 10th out of 11 games? Where’s the Boss, maybe the kids act like the sons on Succession, no guts! Tired of hearing Boone’s post game comments these last 6 games. Pathetic team and 2024 looks as bad.
If the Yankees were smart (and they’re not) they’d do an overhaul in their management staff, player development, scouting department, and medical department from the majors to the lowest end of the minors.
If Hal doesn’t want to spend money on the major league roster and wants to build from within then you must create the best player development department you can. This is why I don’t see change coming because Hal doesn’t believe he needs to invest in this area. He thinks every move he makes is a good move.
He thinks that when a move fails its because of an outside circumstance such as luck or injury, not because the player was injury proned, on the decline, aging, or because they had inflated stats in other divisions and on other teams with a plethora of variables.
You either buy star players and carry a billion dollar roster (you get the point) or you spend more in your development department and save money on the ml roster by developing great players. This would require getting rid of Cashman for a GM that has better insight on identifying talents and niches in players before and during development. Cashman does not have this ability.
I have no faith in their ability to develop players and its a shame because they have players who could theoretically alter the course of the franchise if developed correctly.
Lh Dominguez in CF
LH Jones in LF
LH Wells at C
LH Rice at 1st
RH Peraza at 3rd
RH Everson at 4th OF
The odds of that turning out are slim, but 4 of those players have been and are on the top 100. Now it’s up to the Yankees to tap into and grow that potential. Hence why I have no faith in this organization.
How many top prospects s/b packaged Stanton to make it viable to take on that contract? 1/year?