The Yankees are down one other reliever.
Yerry De los Santos landed on the 15-day injured record on Thursday with proper elbow discomfort.
The appropriate-hander threw 14 pitches in Wednesday night time’s 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels, recording one out whereas permitting successful and a stroll.
“Just felt like he wasn’t able to really extend, so he’s getting the testing done today,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned earlier than Thursday afternoon’s collection finale within the Bronx. “They felt enough last night that it was an IL situation. We’ll see what kind of results [we get] and try to scope out a timeline from there.”
De los Santos, 27, has a 1.80 ERA with 13 strikeouts in 20 innings over three separate stints within the majors this season. He had been with the big-league membership since June 3.
His absence offers one other blow to a Yankees bullpen that misplaced right-hander Jake Cousins to a season-ending elbow damage however that would get Luke Weaver again from a hamstring pressure as quickly as Friday.
To switch De los Santos, the Yankees signed left-handed reliever Jayvien Sandridge to a serious league contract and added him to the energetic roster.
The hard-throwing Sandridge had a 3.00 ERA with 20 strikeouts and two saves over 12 innings within the minors this season, together with a 1.29 ERA over seven innings at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
“He’s had some immediate success down there, and had an assignment clause here recently, so he was going to go on the roster regardless of what happened with Yerry,” Boone mentioned.
That is the 26-year-old Sandridge’s seventh skilled season, although he’s but to look in an MLB recreation. He pitched within the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres’ methods earlier than signing a minor-league contract with the Yankees in February.
Sandridge started the season on the 60-day IL with an undisclosed damage and returned to recreation motion on Might 13.
Thursday’s roster shuffling additionally noticed the Yankees transfer utility man Oswaldo Cabrera to the 60-day injured record. Cabrera has been out since Might 12, when he suffered a scary left ankle fracture that required him to depart the sphere in an ambulance.
CATCHING ON
The Yankees have been happy with Ben Rice’s first MLB begin at catcher.
The 26-year-old caught seven innings in Wednesday’s recreation, working with 4 totally different pitchers who restricted the Angels to 2 runs with Rice behind the plate.
“I wouldn’t say it felt all that different,” Rice mentioned. “Maybe just the routine changes a little bit. You’re out there a little earlier. Game prep is a little different. You’re doing scouting reports, things like that. But overall, felt pretty comfortable.”
Rice is a catcher by commerce, however he made his MLB debut final season as a primary baseman and has primarily been a delegated hitter this 12 months.
With Austin Wells and J.C. Escarra forward of him on the depth chart, Rice had caught solely 7.2 MLB innings earlier than Wednesday, with that work coming in blowout conditions.
Rice threw out one in every of two base-stealers in Wednesday’s recreation, after which starter Ryan Yarbough mentioned Rice did “a really good job” as a receiver.
“I thought he was under control,” Boone mentioned. “I felt like he caught a good game, caught a runner stealing, so I thought it was a successful first go at it.”
