9:53 am: Tarpley is set to undergo an MRI on his balky elbow, tweets Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
9:15 am: The Yankees announced a correction to Tarpley’s injury. He suffered a left elbow impingement, not a shoulder impingement as previously reported.
7:46 am: The Yankees announced today they have selected the contracts of relievers Joe Mantiply and Brady Lail. To create 40-man roster space, the club has transferred Giancarlo Stanton to the 60-day injured list. Infielder Breyvic Valera was optioned to Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre, while left-hander Stephen Tarpley was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left shoulder impingement, opening up active roster spots.
New York just acquired Mantiply from the Reds on Friday. While the acquisition was swung after the hard July 31 deadline, Mantiply was still eligible to be traded because he initially signed a minor-league contract with Cincinnati. The left-hander threw a solid 29 innings in a long relief role for the Reds’ Triple-A affiliate before the trade and will get his second big league crack, having previously pitched five games for the Tigers in 2016.
It’ll be the first MLB go-round for Lail, who turned 26 on Friday. The Yankees’ 18th-round pick out of high school in 2012, Lail hasn’t been among the club’s top 30 farmhands since 2015, per Baseball America, and he went unselected in the Rule V draft last offseason. That said, Lail pitched to a 1.93 ERA with a 36.9% strikeout rate in Double-A this season. Like Manitply, he’s worked multiple innings in the minors and gives the club some long relief depth.
Stanton’s transfer to the 60-day IL is more of a formality than an indicator of any new health problems. He was already known to be out until September, and because his initial 10-day IL placement occurred June 26, he’ll be eligible to return August 26. With a commanding lead in the AL East and stunning production from their fill-in options, the club will surely be cautious with the star slugger.
The club didn’t announce a timetable for Tarpley’s return. The 26 year-old has served as optionable bullpen depth himself this season, pitching dreadfully in the majors- to an 8.24 ERA- but putting up solid results in Scranton. As James Wagner of the New York Times notes, he becomes the 27th different pinstriped player to hit the IL this season, making the club’s 76-41 record all the more remarkable.
Valera, a May waiver claim most notable for his defensive abilities in the infield, has been used sparingly at the big league level this season, but has raked in Triple-A. He’s hitting .328/.402/.532 with more walks than strikeouts for the RailRiders. He’s also bounced around in trade over the past few years, indicating multiple teams view him as a quality depth piece.
Oh f***! Who are we losing now!
Cy Young, the way Cashman uae been finding guys
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So Stanton’s our for the year!!! Ouch
Maybe a Kyle Schwarber like return
Stanton isn’t back until Sept. I am pretty sure it’s just a procedural move. It’s not 60 days from the placement.
Can Stanton come back and be good for October?
Yep, it’s just procedural. There’s no reason to think he can’t make it back in time for the postseason.
No Stanton back before September
Did you not read the article? Yeah… no.
No? And even if he was he hasn’t played all year and we have the best record in the AL and 1 game behind the Dodgers for best record in baseball
The Yankees should go get Brian O’Grady from CIN – Louisville. He will be better than Luke Voit.
Is this supposed to be a joke?
I assume people no longer think that Jeter is secretly still working for the Yankees and did them some huge favor with the Stanton trade, right?
Favor? No way. He stuck the Yankees with an expensive used car that he suspected was about to break down. Former roids guys — once they give up the stuff — become far more injury prone.
There were other teams would have been interested. Look at the deal Stanton had signed with Loria.. it contained NT provision and Stanton had made clear NYY was where he wanted to go, devaluing his trade value somewhat and making sure he ended up with NY, or stayed in Miami.
Boston spoke with Loria earlier in Stanton’s career about acquiring him when it “seemed” he would be amendable to boston, but when a player has a full NT deal, not much to be done and making all that cash as it is when said player would probably want some type of sweetner to move to a non preferred destination.
Stanton never made it clear “NYY was where he wanted to go”. The only two teams that made a play for him originally were the Giants and Cardinals, and he nixed those teams. Since the Dodgers never showed any interest the opportunity to make a bid became available to the Yankees, and Stanton gave the ok for New York. The Dodgers were always his true desire.
John Silver: your comment is complete garbage. Fact much??? What a moron. Never post again since you just type false statements.
And who ever the moron was who upvoted this should be ashamed!
Ctyank- former roids guy? His entire career has been under extreme testing. Way to throw out accusations under cover of the internet. You’re brave.
“His entire career has been under extreme testing” So was Cano’s, Cruz’s, and others before getting caught. You’re naive.
But it’s idiotic to accuse a guy who hasn’t had any firm connection to a positive test, biogenisis, etc. Frankly, it would be grounds for libel if he were brave enough to say it without the cover of an internet username
And they got caught. Weird how that works.
The science will always be ahead of the league testing. One, because it takes the league so long to get agreements with the unions on updated testing to catch-up. Sometimes players just slip in their regiments.
@Bocephus So it’s guilty until proven innocent? Why do you even follow baseball or pro sports? Utterly ridiculous.
“Why do you even follow baseball or sports?” Now that’s an utterly ridiculous question. I never stated anyone was guilty by the way.
You’re both idiots!
So @ctyyank7 Stop it with the roid stuff. No proof at all.
It’s not as if they gave up any valuable pieces to get him, and they’ve got all the money in the world, so it’s not as if the contract will keep them from spending if they need to.
lofl
Lol Stanton is opting out next year and the Marlins are paying Castro basically the same after the money they sent NY
“Stanton is opting out next year” WTF are you on?
Buried Mantiply’s handedness, didn’t even mention Lail’s.
They each have two hands. You’re welcome. 😉
Awesome!!
I for one don’t care if swing and miss Stanton ever comes back. Jeter got us good on this one.
Stanton is and always was a guy that hits a lot of his Homer’s off of late inning relievers when the game is lopsided in either way.
Playing for the Marlins that scenario was just about every game.
Real ace pitchers eat him up at the plate.
Seriously ignorant baseball comment right there.
How so?
Stanton has a career OPS over 1.000 against some of the best pitchers in the game. The list includes Kershaw, DeGrom, Bumgarner, Corbin, Strasburg, Cole, Morton. I don’t know why some people keep spouting this nonsense. He does beat up bad pitching, but everyone does, He does hit good pitchers very well, too. The injury riddled season is frustrating, but he’s not faking. This is a guy who got hit in the face crushing his cheekbone and came back to win an MVP award.
In a “down” year in 2018, he had a season most guys would consider very good.
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Get out of here with your facts!!!
Stanton’s 60 days are up August 25th since he last played on June 25th..
Stanton still under contract thru 2028 at close to $30 mil per year
Exactly. Which means he isnt going anywhere for the next 9 years. So we’ll just have deal with him.
Pretty sure the marlins took on some financially and I think he’s closer to 20-25
With how he got last postseason, and against top pitchers in general, I hope we don’t see Stanton it nail 2020. He’s a regular season player.
Jacoby Ellsbury still under contract thru 2021 at $21 mil per year
Actually through 2020 for Ellsbury. 2021 is a club option buyout year.
There are numerous players around ML Baseball who are being paid through injuries or otherwise like retirement who are being paid by their former teams…..what’s you point?
And by the way, insurance is paying 75%, I believe, of his salary.
This is why long term contracts, which every player wants off a good season, don’t really work very well for the team.
Again, what’s your point?
So Stanton is new arod?? This is where we’re going? 39 and 100 last year. No fault on anyone else that yanks aren’t going into the postseason? Happ and Tanaka have been awful. Can’t even explain what is going on with Judge.. he’s been dreadful. We need Stanton for playoffs. We need to outslug teams. That means we need sluggers. Gio gio Edwin Judge Dj el Gary hicks voit. Didi and gleyber
The most potent lineup we can have. And home field. But y’all are right Stanton can’t hit. Idiots
They’ve been literally outslugging teams all year long. Tanaka and Happ need to be who the Yankees signed them for. Yanks are a lock for the postseason but have a steep uphill climb getting past the Astros.
When worrying about Judge, remember that he had a bad wrist injury last year. It usually takes a couple of years for power hitters to return to 100% from wrist injuries. He will be fine in time.
Remember when yankees fans tried to say Stanton wasn’t injury prone? That was a good laugh…
I guess you and the guy who gave you a thumbs up were voted “most likely not to succeed” in high school….so I guess you ignore the fact that Stanton played 158 games in 2018 and 159 in 2017. Yeh, he’s injury prone alright!
And nice try with the “yankee fans said”….made that one up too did you!
Don’t be salty bc it’s true and you’re saddled with this contract for 9 more years. In his 10 yr career, he’s played 122+ games or more 4x. That’s 40 games (or 1/4 of the season) in 6 other seasons minimum, that he’s missed. And it’ll only get worse with age. Don’t cherry pick 2 years to suit your argument. The guy is quickly becoming the next Tulo.
If Stanton played for the Red Sox this homer would be screaming all the things you just said.
And that average of 122 games has been a pretty good journey so far regarding results…care to name other ballplayers who match up in games played vs results?
Nobody has. crystal ball regarding performance forward of a ballplayer….yes his contract is extreme but that’s done with so I don’t hear you screaming about Bryce Harpers contract and he isn’t half the ballplayer Stanton is.
To be precise he’s averaged 115 games over 10 MLB seasons.
I didn’t say average. GCF is correct… his average game total is even less. I stand by my statement
… which was accurate and proves my point. I said nothing about him not being productive when he did play but you like to jump to your own conclusions when triggered, apparently.
Did you just ignore his entire career to try and prove a point? Seriously what’s up with you and not being able to take any criticism whatsoever about the Yankees?
Well if the details and criticism was correct and relevant and didn’t smack all the time about anti-Yankee this and the Yankee Homer fans then you’d understand my point of view.
Exactly how do any of you equate fact with fiction when it comes to the Yankees and then scream when you get called out.
Grow up!
What details or criticism was inaccurate, out of curiosity?? This should be good.
I see the MENSA candidates are sharing their Stanton insights again.
So you offer a sophomoric insult. I see you’re another self important basement dweller chiming in.
Pretty sure I hurt your feelings.
Grendel where did I post a comment about this article other than replying to your muck? If you need it go ahead and give yourself a win.
yankees looking to sign Darcy Walthenheimer who has absolutely owned her third grade recess team. The cash man and his cracked analytics team says her spin rate is “off the charts”. Her peripherals are otherworldly and her makeup is phenomenal. She’s expected to be available for the 40 person roster by September 1st.
I think the Yankees need to re-evaluate their training staff!! Something is wrong!!