From Josh Kirshenbaum:
Another Yankees romp turned sour in the blink of an eye, with third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera suffering a serious left leg injury in the top of the ninth inning on Monday night during the team’s 11-5 victory over the Mariners at T-Mobile Park.
“I think everyone understands it was a pretty serious situation,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Just praying for our guy Cabby tonight and hoping for the best, and trusting he’s in good hands as he goes through the night here. Obviously, a great game in a lot of ways, but a lot of guys feeling for their teammate, who is the best of the best of them.”
Cabrera tagged up from third base on an Aaron Judge sacrifice fly to right field with the bases loaded and one out. As Leody Taveras’ throw came home, Cabrera ran wide to avoid Cal Raleigh’s tag at the plate. Cabrera beat the throw and the tag, but overran the plate by multiple steps. As he tried to stop, his left ankle buckled under his momentum.
Cabrera was able to stumble back and tag home plate with his hand but stayed on the ground after the play and did not move as the training staff rushed out to check on him.
After a brief time, the center-field gate at T-Mobile Park opened to allow the cart to come out, but it made its way only to the right-field foul pole before turning back and exiting. A few minutes later, as players from both teams stood in silence on the field, an ambulance came out and made its way to home plate.
“It’s definitely one of those unfortunate things that pops up that lends perspective to what we’re doing,” Boone said. “We’re playing a game. You get so consumed with it all the time and the ups and downs of it, and something like that happens for someone you feel so good about. … It smacks you with that perspective that we try to talk about and have all the time. At the end of the day, it’s a game.”
I mean, how can you NOT be haunted by the sight of the trainer rubbing Waldo’s back, trying to soothe him as best as he can? That’s fucked up, especially because Waldo is clearly one of the nicest Yankees on the team. Trent Grisham started crying in the middle of a post-game interview thinking about the injury. That’s how much Waldo means to the rest of the team. He’s definitely one of the most beloved members of the team (bizarrely, he’s also now one of the longest-tenured players on the team. I think he’s now literally the sixth-longest tenured Yankee on the current team, and the second longest in terms of time spent in the Yankee organization. Amusingly, he moved up to second when Carlos Narvaez was traded. Yes, Narvaez has been around for a looooong time). So it sucks.
It was a great win, as the offense really is firing on all cylinders, and Clarke Schmidt had a pretty good game (Mark Leiter allowed Schmidt’s last run to score, but it was on a bloop single). Tim Hill had a shitty inning, allowing the Mariners to get within three, but then the Yankees tacked on three more runs.
DJ LeMahieu was set to return to the team tomorrow, and now I suppose Waldo’s injury makes LeMahieu an everyday player, playing either second or third depending on whether Jorbit Vivas or Oswald Peraza is the other guy in the lineup (presumably LeMahieu plays third if Vivas is playing second, and second if Peraza is playing third). I assume Vivas and Peraza will split time against righties and lefties, and Pablo Reyes will just be the guy on the bench who can fill in at any position when there is a pinch hitter late in the game (as now, due to Trent Grisham’s hot start, the Yankees inherently will have a good pinch hitter on the bench for late in the game opportunities, whoever sits between Bellinger, Rice, Grisham, Dominguez, and Goldy). An interesting question is whether it makes any sense to carry a guy who can legit pinch hit, as Reyes’ multi-positional ability doesn’t mean AS much when Peraza, Vivas, and LeMahieu can already play most positions between themselves. I guess you just stick with Reyes for now.
Get well soon, Waldo!
Aaron Judge is Aaron Judge, of course, but the fact that the Yankees are averaging SIX RUNS a game is still INSANE.
It was obviously a nasty injury, but the way they treated it, you almost thought he might end up paralyzed.
Terrible that it happened, and I feel for him, but thank God it’s only an ankle injury.
Have they confirmed it’s only an ankle injury? I thought he might have also torn stuff in his knees.
I don’t know about confirmed – but as I wrote yesterday, that was my best guess when I rewound the video (advantage of being back in New York for a few weeks), and then they did say it was his ankle in the post-game show.
No one has averaged even 5.9 runs a game since the 2007 Yankees! The last team to average 6 runs a game was the 2000 White Sox, knee deep in the steroids era.
And how’d that work out for the 2007 Yankees?
Strange how other people playing a baseball game can affect your mood. But since it’s true, I’m glad Fried will be pitching on my birthday 😉
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Thank ye much, fellas!
May 13 is your birthday.,,what year? Every year! Haha.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday Pete!
I hope the Yankees bring you the gift of lots o’ runs.
Happy birthday, Pete.
🎂 🥂
Thanks, all!!!
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“the gift of lots o’ runs”
Amen!
Yankees announced that Oswaldo Cabrera fractured his ankle last night.
DJ LeMahieu took his place on the roster.
It’s awful news, but it truly COULD have been worse.
I think that is the early classification. I can only imagine the amount of hardware he’s going to need in there. I won’t watch the video, but described as “gruesome” and “graphic” is enough for this non-MD to make a diagnosis.
But I did rewatch it, and there’s nothing gruesome there.
It was the behavior of the people around him that made the injury so hair-raising.
It might never happen, of course, but IF Stanton were to return, what the fuck do you even do with the lineup?!
Right now, there is a LF/CF/DH/1B rotation. You have five guys for those four spots. Presuming a week’s worth of games (seven games), that’s 28 games needing to be accounted for.
Right now, it’s basically the following out of 7:
6 games for Belli
6 games for Goldy
6 games for Rice
5 games for Grisham
5 games for Dominguez
Now you add Stanton in there, what the fuck is it THEN?
Let’s say you get 2 Rice at-bats a week at catcher, and send Escarra down when Stanton returns (you could even send down Reyes and keep Escarra as a third catcher).
So you’d be:
5 games for Stanton
5 games for Belli
5 games for Goldy
5 games for Rice (including 2 at catcher)
5 games for Grisham
5 games for Dominguez
Hmmm…I guess that actually works.
Hmmm…I don’t think that actually works.
… It was not immediately clear if there was any further damage to Cabrera’s ligaments around his ankle or if it was just a clean break, which may be the best-case scenario in an otherwise brutal development.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/sports/oswaldo-cabrera-injury-update-yankees-worst-fears-confirmed/
Okay, here ya go. Out of seven games, a rotation that gets them all five starts a week.
1 Stanton DH Dominguez LF Bellinger CF Goldschmidt 1B
2 Stanton DH Bellinger LF Grisham CF Rice 1B
3 Stanton DH Dominguez LF Grisham CF Goldschmidt 1B Rice C
4 Stanton DH Bellinger LF Grisham CF Goldschmidt 1B Rice C
5 Stanton DH Dominguez LF Grisham CF Rice 1B
6 Rice DH Dominguez LF Bellinger CF Goldschmidt 1B
7 Judge DH Dominguez LF Bellinger RF Grisham CF Goldschmidt 1B
I’m sure they’d like to DH Judge more than once a week, so maybe Stanton only plays four games a week? Or perhaps, by this point, Grisham has fallen off enough that you’re fine starting Dominguez over him.
In a historic, sweeping decision, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday removed Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and other deceased players from Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list.
The all-time hit king and Jackson — both longtime baseball pariahs stained by gambling, seen by MLB as the game’s mortal sin — are now presumably eligible for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Manfred ruled that MLB’s punishment of banned individuals ends upon their deaths.
https://www.espn.com.au/mlb/story/_/id/45115659/pete-rose-shoeless-joe-jackson-players-reinstated-mlb
Fair enough. Just don’t elect them to the Hall before Bonds, A-Rod, Clemens, etc.
Pete Rose AS A PLAYER should absolutely be voted in before the steroids cheaters.
Joe Jackson may well not have been guilty of anything he understood at all.
If you want to take that route, start with the conscious, intentional, actually direct cheating in Houston. Jackson and Rose should EASILY be eligible before THOSE guys.
So Rose and Shoeless Joe were reinstated by Manfred
Rose and Jackson are worse than McGwire and bonds who didn’t break any rules at all at the time.
Yep. Which is why I’m fine with saying their ban was only for their lifetime. Just don’t elect them to the Hall of Fame before A-Rod, Bonds, Clemens, etc.
I mean Bud Selig is in the Hall, and Landis, there’s no case for keeping anyone out really
This reinstatement is brought to you by DraftKings.
https://bsky.app/profile/francisgasparini.bsky.social/post/3lp3depckak23
The legacy of late capitalism is the total corruption of society by unchecked avarice, executed by power brokers who see no downside to turning every aspect of American life into a casino – not dissimilar to the figurative (or literal) gambling houses where they “made” their own fortune.
Baseball is small potatoes.
mmm, potatoes
T Grisham (L) CF
A Judge (R) RF
C Bellinger (L) LF
P Goldschmidt (R) 1B
A Wells (L) C
A Volpe (R) SS
J Domínguez (S) DH
O Peraza (R) 3B
J Vivas (L) 2B
The plan was always to activate LeMahieu tonight, then start him tomorrow, but I am legit surprised they’re sticking with that plan.
The only reason Rose will be eligible is to appease Trump. I would’ve been fine, though I wouldn’t have e agreed with the decision, if Manfred had done it last year.
Sorry (not sorry) for the repeat:
Pete Rose AS A PLAYER should absolutely be voted in before the steroids cheaters.
Joe Jackson may well not have been guilty of anything he understood at all.
If you want to take that route, start with the conscious, intentional, actually direct cheating in Houston. Jackson and Rose should EASILY be eligible before THOSE guys.
And as someone else already started the old argument yet again…
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The steroids guys should be excluded forever, simply because we don’t know what their real abilities were – maybe they really were that good (a statistically ridiculous, but possible posit), but well never know… and that we never will know is absolutely their own doing. And again, the rules quote is nuts. There’s no rule against decapitating an opposing player during the game, or against putting sleeping pills in their water before the game, so… that’s not cheating?
Was there an official rule against the camera in center field being used in the Giants-Dodgers “shot heard around the world game”? No? So that’s not cheating, it’s okay?
Seems a prima facia ludicrous kind of argumention to me.