The Yankees placed infielder Miguel Andujar on the 10-day injured list, as first reported by Jack Curry of the YES Network (Twitter link). He’ll be replaced on the active roster by Tyler Wade.
It emerged after testing that Andujar has suffered a “small labrum tear,” manager Aaron Boone conveyed to reporters including MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch (Twitter link). The injury, which was suffered when Andujar dove back to the bag on a pick-off attempt, could require season-ending surgery. While the club will first attempt non-surgical treatment, it’s clearly a significant injury that will need to be handled with care.
It’s the second injury-related loss of the day for the Yanks, who already put star slugger Giancarlo Stanton on the shelf. The organization does have some intriguing depth options, but it obviously would prefer to have its first-choice lineup on the field as much as possible in a highly competitive American League East. For the time being, solid veteran DJ LeMahieu will step in at the hot corner, but that’ll take him out of the rotation at the other infield spots.
The long-term repercussions are even more worrying. Andujar, 24, was one of baseball’s best rookies last year. While he’s a work in progress defensively, Andujar posted a healthy .297/.328/.527 slash and launched 27 home runs in his first full season as a big-leaguer.
Dear Lord what is happening in New York?
Spare us the sermon
Preach
Spare us your heathen take.
Twas not a sermon, merely a question.
The Mets became good so the Yankees had to take over their role?
After a whole three games..WTF
Exactly when did the mets become good?
Idk since Van Wagenen took over and started making decisions is probably the answer.
Exactly? About 8:32:pm ET tonight 4-1-19. )
Mets don’t belong in same sentence as Yankees.
JD you just commited blasphemy.
Yet you used Mets and Yankees in the same sentence.
blasphemy!
Can they at least be in the same paragraph?
I don’t know, neither team has won a World Series in the past nine years. And only one has been to the big dance during that time, and it’s not the Yankees. (yes I conveniently used 9 years).
well, you mean what is happening in the Bronx. Mets are ok, knock on wood
Bad trainers! That’s the griping everyone said about the Angels’ problems the last few years.
“Andujar is said to be dealing with a shoulder injury that he suffered diving into a bag.”
VAGUE (Odd for u, Jeff..) HEADFIRST. Not with legs.
I seem to remember Didi torn cartilage in his wrist from headfirst slide… And that was in the playoffs! how many different ways can headfirst slide hurt? Ban this farce.
This wasn’t a run and slide, this was a pick off play. So he was diving back to the bag not sliding. You can’t dive back to the bag feet first. Do you think we should remove pick off attempts from the game, or perhaps leading off the bag? Because head first is the only option in this situation. No one likes injuries and you want to minimize them, but they are part of sports. You can’t change the rules every time someone gets hurt.
The leading cause of TJ surgery is throwing hard. Should we ban that too?
Yeah it’s not typically a good thing when your healthiest player is Troy Tulowitzki.
Sucks!
Journeyman-in-waiting Tim Tebow prayed for injuries in New York but didn’t specify a team.
Now here come the idiots saying “Baaa see they shoulda signed Machado!!”
If the only signed MACHADO!
Next thing you know, Ellsbury will play!
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
Lol good luck with that Oxford
Ugh, no, that China Doll that is in disguise of an outfielder is finished.
Worst April Fools ever
Im a die-hard Sox fan ..and I feel bad for the Yankee’s.. hopefully it’s not as bad as there making it out to be..I was hoping this kid became a superstar for the Yankee’s he seems like a really nice kid.
On the good side BC sure piled up on the depth of the infield.. But Tulo isn’t going to last either.. His health scares me.. Exspecially when in Toronto.. With that stupid field..
A die hard Red Sox fan who hoped Andujar would become a superstar? Color me skeptical
No truly henhas swag like the 2nd baseman.. Not as much as him but still he seems like a good kid and let’s face we both need great young talent for years to come so we can keep our rivalry alive for many more yrs…I guess it’s what I mean..I don’t wish any harm on any players,, now slumps is different.. Don’t get me wrong there..
Talk about adding insult to injury…
They added injury to injury
Can you rehab a labrum tear?!….didn’t think you could without surgery…
You can’t rehab it, serious injury, career ending type, 1st base here he comes.
Confusing Andy and Pedey injury..?
If it’s a minor tear, yes. He’s not a pitcher. It will take months for his arm to get back to full strength.
At the rate they’re going the Yankees will have more players on the DL than off of it.
The Yankees will not have one player on the DL all year long.
You’re absolutely right! However, they might have a few on the IL.
Is the 60 day still the DL?
That’s still too offensive, SMH
Can’t they just call it the Dinjured List so the PC people can be appeased and everyone else doesn’t have to remember new acronyms.
It’s that hard to remember the difference in two letters? Man, talk about people needing a safe space.
hey man it’s the 2019 season so you gotta say IL.. “Disabled List” offends people.that get that government money.
The kind of person who’d be offended by the switch from DL to IL is the kind of person that badly needs to be offended anyway. Lest they continue to believe they can opt out of evolution…
the switch to IL in itself is rather inoffensive. it is, however, a symptom of a much bigger problem. im just saying people arent simply upset at the IL change so it would be disingenuous to assume that they are
Prediction – yanks miss the playoffs in 2019
Prediction – You’re wrong
Prediction we’ll see this troll again.
Why because of one player?
Yanks will almost certainly miss, say, the NHL playoffs in 2019, so I suppose you’re kind of right.
har har har
They also won’t make it to the 2019 MLS Cup Playoffs.
Please please say April Fools.
April Fools ???
Should the Yankees fire their trainer? No one can stay healthy apprently
*apparently
It happened sliding into 3rd. Not sure the trainer could have prevented that one…
HEADFIRST slide. Remove it, from the game
I blame Andujar, sliding head first.
“Why do they keep doing it?” Trainers don’t teach players sliding with your feet reduces injury risk?
Pete Rose and Rickey Henderson slid head first for years with no severe injuries.
Miggy is no Rickey or Rose. Miggy is not as athletic or has Rose’s “energy” they had back then when a few greenies can make u feel like Superman. These guys are playing slower in every way.
Doesn’t hardy slide headfirst into 1st base or did he smarten up? It’s coaching. Like movie Major league- push ups for every headfirst slide like Willie Mays Hayes popping ball up.
This wasn’t a run and slide, this was a pick off play. So he was diving back to the bag not sliding. You can’t dive back to the bag feet first. Do you think we should remove pick off attempts from the game, or perhaps leading off the bag? Because head first is the only option in this situation. No one likes injuries and you want to minimize them, but they are part of sports. You can’t change the rules every time someone gets hurt.
Wow! Ban headfirst slides because occasionally someone gets injured. This country really has gotten soft.
I think to reduce injury andujar should just stand on first base with no lead. You don’t want him stubbing his toe on a slide back to first either.
Ray Fosse would disagree highly with this statement. His career was basically ruined by Rose “sliding” into home in a completely meaningless game.
As far as sliding headfirst or feetfirst, there’s injury risk either way. Some people who measure this stuff say that there’s no advantage to sliding headfirst in terms of being quicker to the bag, although it obviously allows more control about actually touching the bag.
I can see some merit in the danger of a headfirst slide on a play where you’re running full speed but if we’re talking about a headfirst dive back to first I’m not really buying the danger of that.
Have you ever played baseball, or seen a game?!? You don’t slide feet first on a pick off play. Injury could have happened diving for a ball. Are you going to say not to dive for a ball?
+luclusciano
I mean, i dont see any other team dealing with injuries like the Yankees have the last two seasons. These are all muscle tears and inflammation. Its not like when Judge got hit by a pitch and its a freak accident. The guys are getting hurt just playing baseball. Severino, Betances, Andujar, Hicks, Stanton, all injured simply playing baseball. The strength and conditioning trainers have to be doing something wrong.
There are 45 guys in baseball, excluding Yankees, that have similar injuries. This also excludes all players recovering from surgeries of any kind. Yankees are not alone in this. Nothing trainers could do about most of these injuries.
tfranco
Yankees stand alone at the most people on the IL.
When Stanton gets injured simply swinging the bat, Sev by simply pitching, Hicks by simply showing up, Betances by simply pitching… they obviously arent conditioned. Is it a coincidence that all these injuries are happening so early? When your team is limping coming out of Spring Training (you know, the moment players report and trainers get a hold of them) you have to look at the training staff.
Watch Tulo be the only Yankee to stay healthy this year.
tulo and ellsbury are gonna duke it out for comeback player of the year lol
Bird is giving you the eagle eyebrow thing!
Voit is fielding grounders at 3rd!
OMG
Let all the injuries happen early. So they r healthy for the stretch run. One can hope right
Would the last healthy Yankee please turn out the clubhouse lights when you leave?
**Lights stay on overnight…
Before any Yankee haters start to celebrate, the guy taking Andujar’s place is DJ LeMahieu….who hit above .300 and won the GG three times in the last three years.
The bat leaves a lot to be desired. He can hit .300, but he doesn’t add much value despite that on offense.
DJ is more valuable than Andujar. He’s literally an upgrade at 1st base. We don’t need more hitting. If we struggle with offense this year, Andujar isn’t our only problem.
in what world have upply determined DJ is more valuable than Andujar. Yanks thought he was more valuable that they jaf him as the super utility backup? what are you basing this on?
Guess you can’t decide whether you believe in stats or not…..DJ is a former 2016 batting champion and 2 time Allstar… if you think his bat leaves a lot to be desired, then you don’t know anything about baseball.
While he may not be a prolific homer hitter, the Yankees need a hitter like him to keep the line moving much more than clearing the bases and adding 150+ K’s.
Rocky you have identified the difference between Fangraphs/WAR baseball and real live baseball. Fangraphs used the actual 2018 stats to determine that the NYY were a 104 win team and BOS a 97 win team –based on WAR.– a miss by 15 games of the real results.
Fangraphs used the same WAR approach to determine that the 2014 & 2015 KCR teams that came within one game of back to back WS wins should have had a losing record BOTH years.
The Brian Kenny/Fangraphs method believes you need to look at the stats without knowing how, when and where they were accumulated. Also , that a K is just another out. When you watch the games you understand the value of situational hitting and the harm done by players who strikeout trying to hit a home run when a hit or a walk is what is needed.
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For those of us who actually watch games we see
Thank you Rocky. Nevermind JDGout. He cheers for a team with cheap owners and players not capable of hitting .300. Infact the Blue Jays have been on a no-hit watch at least 3 games out of 5 to begin the year.
Could they use a Gold Glove winning .300 hitter? Absolutely not! There are plenty of guys hitting below .150 he’d rather have.
lol
All it takes is one look at his baseball reference page. If you don’t know what a good batting line looks like, that’s on you guys not me. The initial poster said not to be worried about the Yanks since he hits .300. Ok anything else? No.
I know you don’t like being objective Trim, but how does the team I cheer for impact DJ Lemahieu’s below average bat? Look at what’s being said, not who is posting it. And when you start out with name calling, it’s clear you don’t have much of an argument to build off of.
Considering Rocky and JML validated what I’ve cbeen conveying to you for months, I would disagree with your inaccurate assessment over my objectivity. I would also point out that you’ve been quite combative since I joined this site. Hypocrisy is a practice you are trying to perfect.
You cheer for a team with deep pockets with no desire to spend or sign draft picks or win. Yet despite siding with the billionaires you attempt to seek and destroy those speaking positively about owners. Spare me your whining over name calling. All I did was point out that the Jays could use a .300 hitter or 5 in their lineup. You’d rather buy low and sell high. That hasn’t worked during the Rogers era. You will never understand.
DJ lemahieu’s been an above average hitter in the major leagues in exactly one season. The season he happened to win the batting title. He’s coming off one of his poorest offensive showings. Wouldn’t be real hard to frame him as a “buy low” signing by the Yankees. Idk what your problem is with JD but it shouldn’t be about Lemahieu. Who again has been an above league average hitter exactly one time. The one time he did that he did win a batting title which is probably why you think he’s consistently a good hitter. He is an interesting signing if he can raise launch angle as he made a lot of hard contact last year but I’m guessing you didn’t know or care about any of that.
DJ Lemahieu and I went to the same baseball school. Yes, I do know what he can bring to the table. Not looking at WAR and other fraud stats, you and JD wouldn’t have a clue what a guy like Lemahieu can bring to the table.
Every team can use, and needs, a DJ Lemahieu type player. JMI1950 made a point on-top of Rocky’s point. Unfortunately if you are all about WAR and the other statistical bullcrap then you will believe what you believe, and I along with those guys will think differently. Difference is, hitting is how winning is done (along with stud pitching). Always has, always will. Lemahieu hits .300 in New York and he’ll be a stud. At least use the Colorado effect as an argument next time you want to crap on DJ.
Pretty sure DJL is about 30 years to young for your ‘school’ of baseball…
He’s pretty good at getting to first base. Everything after that is where he’s lacking. Anyone who follows baseball even casually should be able to see that that is a bit of a negative…
Trim, Im a big DJ fan. One of most underrated
Trim, stats you hate so much, say your boy, DJ, plays otherworldly Defense. UZR and DRS
DJ LeMahieu Best 2B defense on planet
+18 DRS and +11 UZR. (2018)
+8 DRS and +4.4 UZR. (2017)
•Never had negative DRS.
• Only once had negative UZR.
•Past 5 of seven yrs: eight or more DRS
•Past 3 of six: 10 or more DRS.
Now, Yanks are asking him to play 3rd. So far, eye test tell me he can duplicate those GODLY defensive stats at 3rd too.
The hitting is a bonus.
Can’t dismiss the fact he played in Colorado. His game played well there, will it translate well to a new home park and league?
The problem with him is that while he’ll hit .300, he’ll SLG about the same away from Coors…
Except his road slugging % and ISO the last two years in Coors and on road were nearly identical.
I thought the IL time was moved back up to 15 days?
I think that’s for next year. It’s 10 this year
That will be for pitchers only and happen in 2020. Closes the loophole that so many teams used…..shuttling pitchers back and forth.
2020 will also be the expanded roster, smaller September roster, 3 batter rule and designation of pitcher/position player.
May be an unpopular opinion but I don’t mind the 10 day DL abuse for a pitcher. Gives a AAA arm another major league paycheck and doesn’t really hurt anybody. The 26 man roster fixes that problem as well though.
Between him & Stanton that’s at LEAST 500 Strikeouts they’re losing in those 10 days!!!
Or like 300, but let’s not let facts get in the way.
I don’t think you’re giving these 2 STUDS the credit they deserve. 800 STRIKEOUTS!!!!
3000 HOME RUNS!!!!!
2700 doubles
With 350 home runs also.
123 errors
300 errors!!!!
When you’re home, and you lose 2 out of 3 to the Orioles, the Baseball Gods punish you…..
Shows how little baseball you actually know because Andujar don’t strikeout much. So maybe next time when you try to troll, do some research.
The correct term is “doesn’t strikeout much”. Next time you try to correct someone you may want to do some research.
zing!
And you misuse the word ‘term’… when you point out a mistake in parentheses the way you did you should have said ‘phrase’… can everyone stop correcting English and grammar, what are we here to discuss, baseball or something else?
+melkor
I think correcting English and grammar can help prevent/correct misunderstandings, which is helpful in all conversations. I’ve seen so many interactions here where someone says something, it becomes misunderstood, and then someone argues against a point that was never made and it just snowballs from there. That said, I do agree that people are being nitpicky. I thought it was pretty clear what the OP was referring to, even if he did forget to hit the reply button.
Dropping like flies …
Yankees are falling a part and are still better than the Angels lolzzzz
Lost the series to the worst team in MLB. These players should be proud. Fire Boone now!
The 3-1 Orioles
Pretty sure they did that twice last year. Still ended up with 100 wins.
Why is everybody concerned? The yanks will just heat up their pursuit of Manny Machado…. o wait …
I kid I kid
Oh come on !!!! 🙁
Headley is sitting by the phone right now
Hope he’s not waiting on a job offer
Bring Hechevarria back.
Matt Chapman for frazier and bird, which team says no? Yankees get their 3b replacement. A’s get their much needed 1b help with olson out. Frazier has been an A’s target for years going back to sonny gray trade talks
A’s would be dumb as bricks to do that.
Agreed
Obviously the A’s say no
The only thing that makes this terrible proposition work is if you add Severino. There are zero guarantees that either Bird or Frazier can even be a full time major leaguer, let alone a star like Chapman. Why would anyone make this trade?
Now you’re dreaming if you think the Yankees are going to overpay like that even for an everyday proven player like Chapman….and aside from his defense, what makes him a “STAR”?????
If he’s a STAR, than Sevy is just as much STAR as he!
That’s the entire point Rocky. It takes a star to get a star. Thank you for illustrating exactly what I was going for.
Nobody said the Yankees would do this. A player of Severino’s caliber is how far off this trade proposition is, that’s all.
Why would you want to do that?
Lol no way you’re an A’s fan and proposed that.
Are we back to the days of delusional yankee fans thinking all other teams are falling over themselves to give them their best players in exchange for their scraps? Frazier has been a busy so far, too many injuries have prevented him from proving what he can do. Same story with bird, at least he has hit the little time he has been healthy. At this point both are nothing but filler in any kind of trade not the main pieces. At some point a bit of reality has to enter the delusional realm yankee fans call home
*bust
wow $85 Million on the IL.
Could we have a replay of the 2008 WS???
Bring back Toe??
The Curse of Aroldis Chapman strikes again!!!!
What does this have to do with Chapman?
Longoria headed back to the AL East.
It must be all the PEDs they use….j/k. I guess it’s just the sport.
You had it right the first time
I’m a Sox fan and I want to beat the full strength yanks. Poor young kid. Hope he recovers quickly.
There is no such thing as non-surgical treatment for a torn labrum. You can function just fine with a labral tear but some days it will feel fine and others will feel awful. Once the cartilage that makes up the labrum is torn…it’s torn. It remains one of the worst injuries for a throwing athlete and extremely misunderstood by those who ve never experienced it.
With his ultra aggressive swing and his position, hopefully rehab works but I fear he’s at a high risk for future issues if it’s not surgically addressed.
Lots of comments and discussion but no1 is asking a key question: WHICH ARM IS HURT?!? Right arm would obvi be more of a serious injury. Need both shoulders to swing, I know. But how’s he gonna throw balls into the photographer pit with a bum right labrum?!?
Left shoulder is more important for swinging, right shoulder is more important for throwing. Either way he will need a long time to recover. It his right shoulder though.
I find this insightful and really cool, thanks.
lol is this sarcasm? i was just answering the guys question. i didnt really think it was all that insightful either
LOL. Just reply “Thanks, Thanks”.
Now they can sign Machado! Have him claim fraud or insanity when he signed his contract.
Even though Dixon Machado has only played 7 games at third, he’s readily available. 😉
I can picture the Yankees getting Colin Moran from the Pirates on the cheap. I think the Pirates would happily trade anyone on the team for cash considerations.
Yankees needed to revamp their coaching staff. A future possible star doesn’t need to headfirst slide in Early April. He has a bad Injury. If he could barely play 3rd b4 due to throwing errors, good luck now. Torres now has to learn a new position again. They are going to screw him up too. Too bad Miggy lost the only award he will ever get- 2018 ROY which was pure politics. Feel bad for the kid. Bird had same injury 2 years ago. How did he make out? He looked like he was swinging a 10lb bat last year. And he doesn’t need to make constant long throws. Hope it’s very very mild and/or Miggy is an animal and heals like a beast
This wasn’t a run and slide, this was a pick off play. So he was diving back to the bag not sliding. You can’t dive back to the bag feet first. Head first is the only option in this situation. Outside of instructing players to never lead off a base, which every player does 100% of the time, I’m not sure what you think the coaches should have done here.
Don’t think Torres need to learn a new position….he stays at 2nd or short….this is why they got DJ Lam….he looked great at 3rd and he becomes the defacto 3rd baseman and Wade becomes the swing man…he’s capable of playing all 3 infield positions in question…no need to panic and make a move for somebody outside the organization at this time…..if there’s still a need at the trade deadline, then there will be plenty of players available to make a move with.
Most of us aren’t surprised Giancarlo Stanton is injured.
Yankees will make some sort of move really soon, as things stand Tulowitzki has to play every day and that’s a recipe for being down another infielder; they’ll get someone who can play 3b at least a couple of days a week.
would Torres to third and DJ at second make more sense?
Season ending surgery. Manny sure is looking great right about now. Too bad George died. He would have signed Manny & Harper & Dallas & Kimbrel.
You ain’t kidding, because it seemed like that he absolutely loved to make those kind of signings and that many of them, even if it meant that they would be over the luxury tax by miles.
What a punch in a gut. Such a young talent gone for the whole year. Yankees are still stacked, but this sucks. I’m no Yankee fan, but I hope this kid recovers quicker than expected.
Right now the Yankees are like the Angels. #1 pitcher gone. #2 hitter gone. #3 hitter gone.
The Yankees also have their #4 hitter. It’s hard to win that way. Few teams can win with those types of injuries.
Unlike the angels the Yankees have DJ lemahieu on their bench and Clint Frazier sitting in the minor leagues. They’ll also add Gio sometime soon. Not exactly as good as the guys their replacing but you’d be hard pressed to find another team who has backups so capable.
all we are saying is give wade a chance
Time to look at MLB trades or minor league prospects & trades for a 3b option w 25 HR potential, sooner, before mid season.
Fire the strength & conditioning trainers
If he does require shoulder surgery, I wonder if that ends his career as a third baseman; he was so bad there anyway, but then it really creates a logjam at 1B/DH for the Yankees in the future.
I would think that him getting the surgery to fix his arm increases his chances to stay a 3B. If he doesnt get the surgery it might be safe to say he doesnt intend on throwing much for a long long while.
On the plus side it will only effect his defense, so I doubt anybody would have noticed if the Yankees hadn’t told us…
So the Yankees will now hope that Greg Bird, Troy Tulowitzki & (to a lesser extent), James Paxton can stay on the field & be the model of being healthy. Yankees are screwed!