SUNDAY: The Yankees announced Maybin’s IL placement, which is retroactive to Saturday. The club recalled left-hander Nestor Cortes Jr. from Triple-A Scranton to take Maybin’s roster spot.
FRIDAY, 9:31pm: Maybin said after the game he “felt a pop” in his calf. He’s going to be on the IL for “a while,” according to manager Aaron Boone (via Bryan Hoch of MLB.com).
8:32pm: Yankees outfielder Cameron Maybin exited the team’s game Friday with a left calf strain, Meredith Marakovits of the YES Network reports. Maybin will undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the injury.
Calf strains often lead to IL stints, which would be a particularly unfortunate outcome for the red-hot Maybin. Then dealing with injuries to starting outfielders Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Hicks, the Yankees acquired Maybin as a stopgap in a late-April trade with the Indians.
New York only gave up cash to get Maybin, who has since played so well that the team hasn’t been willing to get rid of him even as its top outfielders have returned. The club’s unable to send down Maybin, who has no minor league options remaining, so its choices are to designate him for assignment, keep him in the majors or find a taker via trade.
For the Yankees, parting with Maybin this week would have been extremely tough after he hit a home run in each of their four games from June 15-18. The 32-year-old now has five as a Yankee, to go along with an excellent .314/.391/.500 line (137 wRC+) and six steals across 133 plate appearances. For comparison, Maybin hit .254/.322/.368 (92 wRC+) in 3,848 trips to the plate with various teams from 2007-18.
This saves his roster spot for now, via an IL stint and using the max IL MiL stint upon his return, maybe someone pulls a hammy by then and Maybin slots back in. Poor Clint Frazier, he’s still the odd man out, despite a great showing at the plate.
He’s basically been a trade chip his entire career, hopefully he can find a home soon and get regular playing time.
He’s been a solid corner outfielder with a good glove and good speed, his showing thus far this year has been most impressive.
@agentp Clint Frazier has been awful with the glove, he is one of the worst defensive outfielders in the game. I like the guy and he can hit the stew out of the ball but he can’t play defense to save his life. I don’t know where you are getting he has a good glove
Last year, Gary Sanchez was one of the worst, if not the worst defensive catchers in the game…..this year, one of the best including his game calling and “stealing” pitches.
My point is 1 year can make a world of difference and that’s why you have coaches…to coach a guy up offensively or defensively….we all need to give the kid a chance…
Actually one of the worst at pitch framing which I think is what you meant as “stealing” pitches, but he has improved with the passed balls.
Love Frazier’s bat though and didn’t think he played as bad defensively last year. Either way, I don’t think he has the range or glove to be anything more than a mediocre defender which is all he needs with his bat
not true.
Stats exist if you ever want to know what you’re talking about.
If a -3 defensive runs saved for his career is “solid”, then I guess your assessment of Maybin is correct.
Um…. #87 out 90 total catchers. He’s stealing strikes from his own team and giving them to the other team.
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Cameron Maybin is a good defender. If some statistic shows otherwise then that statistic is highly flawed.
Never rely on facts. Always make subjective statements.
At this point he is a better catcher than Piazza, case closed!
Gary Sanchez has made 9 errors and only caught 22% of the base stealers. He leads the league in errors while not even qualifying for any leader categories because he’s only played 390 innings at catcher. He is near the bottom in every defensive rated category. Sanchez is nothing more than a DH that wears a face mask.
I’m sure there are a lot of teams that would like to have that DH catching for them!
Most of those errors came earlier this season and he’s been throwing out way more runners lately. Don’t let those stats fool you
I agree Rocky!
Clint is athletic and works hard. Yes there is some growing up to do but every kid is different. I would not sell low on this kid and if I was to deal him I wouldn’t include a boatload of prospects for a stop gap starter as we all know pitchers are way too volatile.
Dont let the stats get in the way of the story, right?
Well he’s definitely not mediocre. He’s got the worst RF def% percentage in the MLB .909. Not serviceable and will be moved. To a DH role on a good team. Possibly look at Making him A 1B if he wants to play in the mlb
Maybin. Not Frazier.
He is the odd man out, but they can’t bring him up with 4 OF’s since the playing would she slim. Needs to play everyday. They’ll used him as a trade chip but I’d like to see him stick with the yanks and take over LF next year with Stanton as DH. Or they can both be LF/DH but in the everyday lineup.
He won’t be a LF. He’s terrible defensively and not MLB OF material. At .909 field %. Only dh or possibly make him a 1b. But he won’t be a Yankee. I guarantee that
I would love to see a league wide drug test done over the course of a week. There are too many players having these unreal years after multiple, mediocre seasons. Maybin, LaStella, Ketel Marte, Soler, Dietrich, Goodwin, and the list goes on.
Ball is wound tighter this year. Baez hit one yesterday that convinced me the ball is juiced.
Juiced for sure, that’s ok, but not for the players. Time to put all the PED guys in the Hall.
I wouldn’t say Maybin is having an unreal year. He’s had a hot couple of weeks.
what a valuable insight.
SMH
Yeah, just so much hate. I just hate when facts slap me in the face and I just invent hate for players. Get a clue EMAC. If you are actually watching games, you will see how average players are now becoming sluggers and hitting the ball more solid. Is the ball juiced? Maybe, but is it really that great where guys who never hit more than 5 HR in a season has 15 already this year, Lastella. Or Soler who is on pace for 40 HR playing in a pitcher’s park like Kaufmann Stadium. I remember 1998, when everyone was wrapped up in the McGwire/Sosa HR race. We all know what we found out some years later.
The juice is on the loose in MLB, and now on Twitter.
Good luck to Maybin. He’s always been hard playing great team guy.
“The club’s unable to send down Maybin, who has no minor league options remaining, so its choices are to designate him for assignment, keep him in the majors or find a taker via trade.”
How come the Yankees can’t put him on the Injury List?
They obviously can. This was their pre injury options….and I think you know this . You just saw an opportunity to be a condescending little punk and took it
No, actually their pre-injury options included putting him on the IL; and IL stints are worthwhile mentions as options anytime there is doom and gloom talk about roster crunches, regardless if whether one has just been utilized in the case at hand.
The Poison Touch of Stevie Donniehugh strikes again
They’ll either get Marte from the Pirates for 3 guys named Fred, or re-acquire Refsnyder, who’ll promptly slash 300/400/500 for the rest of the season……
He has been great for us !! Hopefully he recovers fully 🙁
I hope he gets bsck soon as well. Maybin is one of the good guys in the league . Easy guy to root for . Hes truly a wonderful human being
He seems like a really good guy in his interviews, but ease up with the “wonderful human being” mush. This is the guy that got arrested for DWI during spring training.
Yes but he was very very sorry and also showed the utmost respect to the officer who arrested him. He was so apologetic ,I now root for him as a player who mad a grave mistake.
Maybin has always been a decent player when he’s not injured. He’s an injury waiting to happen which is always.
Hopefully they bring back Frazier, but it’s more likely they just reinstate a 13th pitcher.
They’re going with the 13th pitcher.
That’s clear.
Since he took so long reporting to AAA I doubt he’ll be the first call up coming back. They’ll feel the need to send him a message and/or just send him out of town.
Ya, I didn’t know that. Taking his sweet time to report is not a good look.
I assume you’re talking about Frazier?
On his Instagram account he removed every picture of himself in a Yankees uniform and unfollowed most of the players kn the Yankees
This is stuff 14 year old girls do. Dude obviously is immature. Yanks are better off packaging him for a starter . His play does not warrant the baggage
Package him, like in a box?
Yes Frazier. You get 72 hours to report but everyone gets there quickly…Frazier used that whole timeframe despite WBS not being far from NYC.
Yeah he even appears as a snot nosed red head. Who can hit a ball. But can’t use a glove
How will the Yankees survive without Maybin?? Oh, the humanity!! Lolol
Brett Garbage
Derp
Now bring Frazier Back !!
If I’m Frazier I tell the Yankees trade me!
Believe me he doesn’t have to. He cost them more games than he won them
The Yankees will pick up my Ken Phelps who will slash 600/800/1000 and finally fulfill his promise in pinstripes.
F me I can’t win! Brett Garbage will still be ran out there every day. I cannot get away from this guy.
Make a trade with Detroit for Goodrum and Boyd. Gives a you a young controlled arm. Gives you a LH bat that would thrive in Yankee stadium, and Gardner can go on a long fishing trip.
Grady has been the blood of this team for years. Plays with more passion then anyone. Get outta the comments ballbags
Judge is the heart and soul of this team numb nuts. Now go back on your mommies udders. Who’s “Grady”?
You’re the reason people hate bandwagoners.
Let’s look at the stats for Happ vs Corbin Homers…
Happ…era 5.23 fip 5.12 whip 1.23 babip 299 k/9 7.2
Corbin..era 3.90 fip 3.91 whip 1.20 babip.282 k/9 9.9
Go ahead and justify
It’s even more egregious when you consider that happ got 17 mil a year to pitch in his 36, 37 and 38 seasons but he could not justify paying Corbin 23 mil in his years 34 and 35….
I know Corbin got crazy money and years but that’s what good pitching costs. Otherwise you get happ and cc
Verlander proves what an ace can do, but let’s see what the dummies think. Rocky’s Grammy probably took away his phone, and Begamin is putting up another Greg Bird Fathead.
Hey billy, Stroman just pitched 6 innings shutout ball against the Red Sox. Lowering his era to 3.04. Please explain to everyone why he’s Sonny Gray 2.0.
I agree with you in that I just don’t see Stroman as a Sonny Gray 2.0 because the kid is from NYC and has that bull dog mentality that you need in order to survive in NYC whereas Sonny Gray was not used to the bright lights and playing in front of an Oakland crowd that is not the same vibe as the vibe in yankee stadium. Eventually it should be Stroman while headlining the package of Clint Frazier along with others to Toronto’s liking. Clint Frazier’s attitude even with a lightening quick bat is rubbing off bad on Yankee brass yes it is frustrating as a player to be optioned back and forth but there have been many in his case that has gone thru what he has gone thru I remember Bernie Williams, Brett Gardner, Melky Cabrera to name a few that showed enough in spring training and reg.season but were sent down due to number crunched.