April 3, 2025

41 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Gil (right lat strain) shut down for at least six weeks”

  4. NESN:When Verdugo underwent an awful 11-game slump to begin the month of August, he didn’t vow to spend a few extra hours in the batting cages or the film room. Instead, Verdugo blamed his tattoo ink as the root cause, claiming an allergic reaction between the ink on his hands and the material of his batting gloves made it difficult to hit.

  5. “The reigning American League Rookie of the Year”

    I honestly believe the unlikelihood of Gil repeating that particular achievement is great enough for Hoch to feel safe just going with “last year’s American League Rookie of the Year.”

  9. Dominguez and Jones mashing today against the Phillies’ minor leaguers, like they should.
    Hopefully we’ll see them do it against MLB pitching too.

    2. Tariffs only make the seller raise prices, and the buyer ends up paying more. So when Cashman tries to trade for Vlad Jr at the deadline, he’ll have to send 5 prospects instead of 3.

  11. LeMahieu himself told the Yankees beat this morning (via Greg Joyce of the New York Post). It’s a Grade 1 or 2 strain, and while there’s no official timetable yet, LeMahieu will go at least a “couple” weeks without any baseball activity at all.

    1. That (absence) doesn’t sound like anything that will put a noticeable dent in his performance, so I’m not worried.

  12. Cash: Stanton started dealing with this last year and we tonight we were in a good place. He’s having another PRP injection. Surgery is a last resort.

    1. So instead of getting treatment in the off season, he waits until he shows up in camp and then goes for treatment.

    2. It’s how the Yankees roll. The regular season is for surgeries that were put off in the fall/winter.

    1. I don’t know much about him except that he definitely was not teased about his name as a kid

    3. I don’t think we’ll see Sterling this year, as it’d be a bit too much of an insult to the guy that they wooed here from Seattle.

  20. So Stanton is getting a THIRD round of PRP, meaning the dude is still in significant pain. I think they really have to plan on Stanton not being available this season.

    I’m slowly coming around to a Wells/Rice platoon at DH, with Escarra catching on days Wells DHs.

    Rice DH
    Judge RF
    Bellinger CF
    Goldschmidt 1B
    Wells C
    Dominguez LF
    Chisholm 2B
    Volpe SS
    Waldo 3B

    It’s not ideal, of course, and I would still prefer them make a fucking move, but it might not be awful, either.

    1. Two rookies, two guys we know can’t hit, and Goldy in the cleanup spot, while needing everyday production from him.

    2. This suggests to me that his condition recently got much worse and maybe is still getting worse, not that he sat around and did nothing about it.

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