2016 OFFICIAL YANKEES SEASON THREAD... THANK YOU A-ROD

A-Rod could miss an extended period of time due to an oblique injury

The Yankees lost for the eighth time in their last 11 games Sunday afternoon (TB 8, NY 1), and in addition to the ballgame, the team also lost DH Alex Rodriguez to injury. He left the game with an oblique problem in the sixth inning.

Manager Joe Girardi confirmed A-Rod suffered the injury not during the game, but in the batting cage underneath the stadium as he took swings between at-bats. Rodriguez went 1-for-2 with an RBI double off the wall before exiting the game. Here's what Girardi told reporters about the injury following the game (video link):

"It was not after his double. It was when he was preparing for his next at bat by taking swings in the cage ... Anytime someone leaves with an oblique you're not really optimistic because they take a while depending on the severity of it. I even think sometimes when players physically feel ready, sometimes they don't have the strength they had before. It takes some time to get that back, so yeah, I worry. I hope whatever it is turns out to be really, really minor. He said he didn't feel that bad when he went to get the MRI, but I think the MRI will tell us more."

The Yankees are expected to make a roster move prior to Monday's game because they are without outfielder Aaron Hicks in addition to A-Rod. Hicks is day-to-day with a sore shoulder he suffered attempting a diving catch Friday night. The team doesn't want to play with a 23-man roster, even if only for a few days.

In all likelihood A-Rod will wind up on the DL because obliques can take a long time to heal, as Girardi said. They're very easy to re-injury as well, so the Yankees won't want to rush things and potentially lose Rodriguez even longer than originally expected. The team has not yet announced the MRI results.

With A-Rod (and Hicks) out, the Yankees could call-up an outfielder and use Carlos Beltran at DH full-time. Veteran Nick Swisher and outfield prospects Ben Gamel and Aaron Judge are call-up candidates in Triple-A. Swisher signed a minor league deal with New York a few weeks back. He was released by the Braves in spring training.

Rodriguez, 40, is off to a dreadful start this season. He went into Sunday's game hitting .132/.233/.245 (38 OPS+) with two home runs and 18 strikeouts in 60 at-bats. Losing his bat in the short-term won't hurt, but he won't get back on track sitting on the DL.
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Pretty sure on the postgame they hinted that Gamel will get the call, not Swisher. And certainly not Judge.
 
Think i did :smh:

Im gonna go ahead and take the L ... I had the game in the small pic all night watching wrestling :smh:

uncultured swine ...
 
I turned it on in my living room like a fool :smh: should have never left my bed.
 
Back to picture and picture for the win ....

I swear it's funny but deep down we're all looking at how we ****** this up :lol:


Now i could eat my Entenmann's chocolate donut :smokin
 
Mad as **** DB gave up a bomb. He looked off from his first pitch though. Didn't look right.
 
Severino rocked out there :x

Yankees' Luis Severino failing to meet expectations

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The names come quickly to anyone who has followed the New York Yankees in recent years:

Phil Hughes

Joba Chamberlain

Ian Kennedy

Manny Banuelos

Andrew Brackman

Where will Luis Severino rank on the recent list of major Yankee starting pitching prospects? So far, the results have not been very good. The Texas Rangers shellacked Severino for six runs in three innings on seven hits in a 10-1 Yankees' loss. He is now 0-3 with a 6.86 ERA. He has allowed 32 hits over 19 2/3 innings.

Severino is just 22. He may just be having a couple of bumps to start his second season. Hitters definitely are taking advantage of the fact they know, despite his excellent stuff, they can feast on the knowledge that he is always around the strike zone. Severino needs to make his pitches dart out of the zone more to be less hittable.

What could derail him, at least in terms of how he is judged, are the expectations. It happened to the guys before him.

If you look at the first three names on the list above -- Hughes, Chamberlain and Kennedy -- the immediate reaction is that they somewhat failed as Yankee prospects.

While money is not how you totally measure a player, those three have done enough to be rewarded nearly $200 million in total contracts. That doesn't really sound like failure. Granted, they were never aces, but they were solid major league pitchers.

Banuelos has made the majors with the Braves, but hasn't amounted to much, while Brackman pitched in three big league games -- all of 2 1/3 innings -- for the Yankees in 2011.

It is too early to judge Severino. The signs this year are warning against the high expectations that accompanied this season. There was a thought that by the end of the year that Severino could possibly replace Masahiro Tanaka as the team's No. 1 starter.

Maybe it will still happen, but the hits per innings are very alarming. It is not yet time to lower expectations, even as the growing pains become more and more apparent.
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