3:05pm: Boone says Chisholm’s strain is of the high-grade variety and he might miss four to six weeks, per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
8:51am: The Yankees announced this morning that infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. is headed to the 10-day injured list due to a right oblique strain. The move is retroactive to April 30. Fellow infielder Jorbit Vivas has been recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to take Chisholm’s spot on the active roster.
Chisholm exited Tuesday’s game with discomfort in his side and sat out Wednesday’s contest. Manager Aaron Boone revealed earlier this week that Chisholm would undergo an MRI on Thursday’s off-day. That imaging clearly revealed enough for the Yankees to sit Chisholm down for the next week-plus. The team hasn’t formally provided a timetable for Chisholm’s return yet, though even Grade 1 oblique strains can sideline players for upwards of a month. There are instances of players making it back from very mild strains sooner than that, of course. Boone will surely provide more information on Chisholm’s injury outlook prior to tonight’s game.
The 27-year-old Chisholm has hit for plenty of power this season but has been far more strikeout-prone than he was in 2024. He’s slashing .181/.304/.410 with seven homers, three doubles, six steals (in seven attempts) and a career-best 12% walk rate. He’s also fanned in what would be a career-high 31.2% of his plate appearances and been dinged by a .200 average on balls in play — hence the low batting average.
Even with the basement-level batting average, Chisholm’s approach at the plate doesn’t look as alarming as one might expect. He’s actually chasing pitches out of the strike zone at the lowest clip of his career. His 21.1% chase rate sits nearly seven percentage points lower than league-average. In general, Chisholm is seeing more pitches than ever before. He’s swinging at a career-low 41.1% of the pitches he sees, and his 4.27 pitches per plate appearance is both a career-high mark and the 24th-highest among 168 qualified hitters.
The driving factor behind his strikeouts is easier to explain than to fix: Chisholm’s contact rate on pitches within the zone has cratered from 80.7% last year to 72.5% this season. (League average is just over 85%.) Chisholm’s strikeout rate had actually begun to come down in recent weeks; he’s fanned in one-quarter of his plate appearances over his past 80 trips to the plate — right in line with his 2024 levels — so perhaps the spike in punchouts can be chalked up to some early-season white noise. Time will tell.
In the meantime, Vivas will get his third recall to the majors and hope to finally be plugged into to the lineup this time. He’s been summoned to MLB two times in the past, but Boone has yet to write the 24-year-old’s name on the lineup card or even send him into a game as a pinch-hitter, pinch-runner or defensive replacement.
Vivas is doing his best to force the issue in Triple-A. He’s had a superb start to his 2025 season, batting .319/.426/.436 (139 wRC+) with a pair of home runs, five doubles, six steals (in 10 attempts) and more walks (12.9%) than strikeouts (6.9%). The lefty-swinging Vivas, acquired from the Dodgers in the 2023-24 offseason, can play both second and third base.
Maybe Vivas will get an at bat this time
Vivas is replacing Jazz on the roster, but Peraza is replacing Jazz in the lineup and Vivas is replacing Peraza on the bench
Scrabble
Finaly is out for good
Unrelated but we have to get Carrasco out of the rotation, surely theres someone in AAA that can deliver the exact same production with the chance theyre slightly better, right?
Vivas better get an opportunity very very soon.
âŚto pitch?
Worst case they will wait for Gil and hope no one else gets hurt.
They are stretching out Winans, he might get the call if Cookie continues to crumble.
I just dont see what would change if we keep throwing Carrasco out there, he hasnt had a good season since 2020
You don’t think his 2022 season was good?
He did ok in 2022 i guess. 97 ERA+, tick below average/basically average. Hes been real bad outside of that though
There might be, and stop calling me Shirley.
Dreben–you’re needed at the hospital!
I like Vivas but it’s more important now to give Peraza a real chance. I think he’s out of options. There’s no question of his fielding skills but his batting has sputtered at best in the MLB. If he can’t hit, let’s move on. Maybe he can figure it out in Chicago.
Either way, once (if ever!) DJ returns, you know he’ll be in the lineup. These young guys better seize the day now.
I think Reyes will be first on the chopping block when DJ gets back. Unfortunately DJ will be given a long leash. I would be nice if Vivas takes advantage of the callup because I have zero faith in Peraza and Cabrera is better suited to his part time utility role.
Peraza’s fielding is superb, and that and speed do not slump. It’s worth it to find out if he can hit in the MLB if given some consistent playing time. At the very least, showing off some of his skills will help his trade value. I would love to keep him on the team and root for him every at bat.
Interesting how back in the day a guys BA lower than, say, .250 would indicate a bad hitter. Nowadays we are taught to look more at OBP. So guys like Schwarbs can hit .220 but with an OBP more than a hundred points higher (along with the power). and nothing negative is said. No comment really other than I find it interesting because some guys just played in the wrong era.
I always think of Dave Kingman whenever someone brings up this topic. Batters are taught now to be selective & patient. In the olden days, they were aggressive at the plate & emphasized ‘contact’, versus ‘driving the ball’. I like HRs as much as anyone, but it takes away a lot of the old strategy. It makes me nuts to watch the Yankees get a runner or two in scoring position with less than two outs & then see the next couple of hitters dismiss any attempt at situational hitting.
Yeah good comp. And I recall Andre Dawson who didn’t take many walks, saying that as a cleanup hitter he was taught to swing if it was close cuz he was there to drive in runs, not to walk.
Dawson had a decent average with men in scoring position. AI claims .279 which is his career average.
from a fan stand point it definitely makes it less fun to watch, baseball is easily most exciting when the ball is in play. from a team stand point they want to score the most runs possible and this seems to be the best way to do so
nobody enjoys watching a .171 average no matter how much they walk
Be thankful you’re not a Ranger fan right now.
I totally understand because the Tigers have the same issues. Sometimes you hope for a double play so they can get a run in. To many times it’s second and third with no one out and still can’t score.
Dave Kingman isn’t anywhere near as good as Kyle Schwarber..
They’re the same player except that Kingman would have 30 or 40 walks per season while Schwarber gets over 100. Kingman also caused a lot of off-field controversies.
King KONG. A legend indeed.
Coop I think the biggest problem is people want a singular stat that will tell the story on every ball player. Nuance is hard for most.
Excellent comment! Even in the real world, there are very few single unifying stats. I liken it to an income statement. Revenue is high, but margin weakened. Operating margin was strong, but SG&A increased. Bottom line was good, but backlog weakened.
I’d say the only downside is getting fixated on one particular data point.
gene tenace and jack clark come to mind as players who were under appreciated due to their schwarberesque stat lines
Initial reaction was wot, Gene Tenace? Then looked him up, yikes! .242/.388 OBP. A veritable green and gold monster of walks. Career .817 OPS! Admittedly he didn’t play much and sat (crouched) Indian style most of his time but he’s a modern day platoon style player in a markedly different era.
Similarity score to Mickey Tettleton who I’m more familiar with as a grunge kid: .241/.369/ .818 OPS not too shabbie
hereâs a deep cut to look up: greg gross
peak years 1973-1979 he was a 5 bwar player with 139 ops+ but only 1 all-star selection. most people know him for going crazy in the 1972 WS but he was a solidly above-average player for a long time
He the dude who was crying about his dog running away
Gene Tenace a true professional
Jack Clark walked alot and hit many years for a good average. Not .220.
I still have a hard time believing heâs not a sound cloud rapper.
Yeah his IG makes it seem like he’d rather be a sound cloud rapper, but he just happens to only make money playing baseball, so he kinda has to force himself to try to care about the game, haha.
Please listen to my demo
“Please attend my DJ night” – Portlandia
Chisolm has been good this year, but he, like a lot of guys, got a little too reliant on homeruns and the rest of his offensive approach has suffered.
Seems to be happening to Ben Rice, now, too.
Those torpedo bats be messing with Yankees’ perception of themselves as being purely pull homerun hitters.
Not everybody has to be Jason Giambi circa 2002-2003 seasons.
Rather be swaggie Jeremy Giambi hooting up a storm on the clubhouse table after another A loss
he’ll have more time to spend on twitter
Really wish he would stop swinging himself out of his shoes and just trust his talent. He’s swinging at good pitches but consistently gets all out of balance. Lots of pop ups.
Chisholmâs 107 wRC+ with a .181 BA and .200 BABIP is a statistical unicorn. 7 HRs and a 31% K-rate in 125 PAs outpace league average despite a contact crater.
his K rate is so high because he questions every close pitch that gets called a strike so the umps give the pitcher the benefit of the doubt
He crushes a mistake meatball and any quality pitches he sees he’s useless.
What a weird stat line
as noted above jazz has been unlucky at the plate and has played an elite second base. come back soon!
my guess is the org is hoping peraza goes on a hot streak and builds back a little trade value before the deadline. he just doesnât hit the ball hard enough or high enough
excited to see what vivas can do. djlm is still a ways away so vivas should finally step to the plate as a major leaguer
I got a question how can Trent Grisham have been a “salary dump” in the Juan Soto trade when he was (and still is) in arb at that time which means the Padres could have simply non-tendered him if they wanted to “dump” his salary?
They don’t want to say it, but Jazz is suffering from what is called a “torpedo bat” oblique. This is a serious problem that affects batters who are not home run hitters. Once they taste the allure of the easy home run, they think they have become Arron Judge.
I like a Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA now and again.
Is A.rron Judge A.Aron Judge’s short stubby twin?
Typo dumpster diving?
I can’t stand Jazz. All of the flash and zero of the plate discipline. He’s like a beer league softball player. Toss him a mistake and he’ll crush it. Make a good pitch and he’s useless. Hopefully Vivas gets some AB’s and crushes it making Jazz expendable.
Haha okay boomer
I’m a boomer because I can’t stand a guy hitting .171 with a 37% strikeout rate who wears monkey armbands and a Mr T starter kit. Ok, little boy.
But how many RBIs does he have with his batting avg
The MLB average walk rate is 8%-9%. Jazz is at 12%. You summed up an average to above average, not elite, player which Jazz has been.
His strikeout rate is 37% which is horrible….as is his .181 batting average. So NO…..not average to above average. It’s CRAP.
It’s 31.2%.
Still horrible.
Agreed
Geek alert
@yankeebleachercreature
When the batting average is that low, the overall isn’t average. Yes, yes, WAR has him there, but flaws exist. Sometimes having a low BABIP is because your not hitting line drives, and luck has nothing to so with it.
Not Wllie Mays Hays and his .181 BA.
….seriously?
Well, hopefully he comes back and just wants to hit for average and maybe stumble into a few home runs but not be so focused on being a pull power hitter.
It really is like he forgot that there’s an entire field he can hit the ball into…. also he seemed a little unfocused in the field a couple times recently.
I believe in Jazz.
He had a mini-slump before his true slump and he seemed to suddenly get very serious, very focused and brought his numbers back up, then got comfortable and loosey-goosey again.
Here’s to Jazz returning in 30 or 40 days and raking to the tune of like .275 w/ 18 HR’s and 50 RBI’s through the the remainder of the season and goes into the post season like it’s the first week of 2025 all over again for him.
See ya in July đ
4-6 weeks means Jazz’ll be back in time for the first Yankees-Red Sox series of the season.
I was always a pro Cashman guy but these three trades are an example of why I have changed my mind:
Miami trade for Jazz?
I would take Agustin Ramirez back in a Miami second to be the Yankee back up catcher/dh right handed bat they are missing in the lineup
Milwaukee trade for Devin Williams?
Give me Caleb Durbin back to play second and leadoff. He doesnât strike out, walks allot, steals bases, is everything this lineup needs!
Also Bestir a Yankee favorite left handed swing man.
Texas trade for Gallo?
This trade was perhaps the worst of them all!
Josh Smith playing third would look great in this lineup. Another left handed bat who plays solid defense, can run, solid offensive bat!
These 3 guys are all young, all homegrown, and would change this Yankee lineup tremendously yet they were all traded at the time most fans and sports media assumed it was another Yankee trade win but each one has so far been a loss and Jazz is still up in the air but the fact he strikes out just about 3 times every game is beyond frustrating!
Ohhh I forgot trading Michael King an ace for Soto who would walk has not been a total loss because he was a huge reason they made the run to the World Series plus Grisham has been a stud this year but I would want a do over on that trade also!
Jazz sucks.
Get rid of him.
DJ back in 2 weeks. Will take over 2B.
Bye bye Jazz. Back to Miani for you. Or Tampa, perhaps!!!!
Home games at Steinberger field. What a coup Tampa!!!
Jazz is the definition of home cooking.
at the stadium 250/.371/.596/.967
His away numbers are absolutely dismal .113/.238 /.226/ .464