MARCH 15: Manager Aaron Boone told Marly Rivera of ESPN and other reporters that Chirinos will undergo surgery Tuesday. He’ll need four to six weeks to recover.
MARCH 11: Catcher Robinson Chirinos has been diagnosed with a fractured right wrist, the Yankees announced. “Wrist and hand specialists will be consulted in the coming days to determine best next steps,” according to the team’s official statement. Chirinos suffered the injury after being hit by a pitch during yesterday’s game with the Pirates.
Chirinos was in camp on a minor league deal, signed to provide some catching depth and perhaps give Kyle Higashioka some competition for the backup catching job. Since Chirinos has been roughly a league-average hitter over his nine MLB seasons, this track record made him perhaps a touch overqualified for the “Spring Training depth catcher” role, which could have been indicative of how the Yankees were approaching the catching position given Gary Sanchez’s struggles in 2020. However, Chirinos’ chances of making the Opening Day roster are now over, and he could possibly face a lengthy layoff depending on the severity of his fracture.
Bothered by an ankle injury for much of 2020, Chirinos struggled through an ugly season that saw him hit only .162/.232/.243 over 82 combined plate appearances with the Rangers and Mets. It was a big step back for a catcher who had been a productive bat for much of his career, hitting .234/.329/.439 with 85 homers over 2043 PA with the Rays, Rangers, and Astros from 2011-19.
Gary Sanchez breathes a sigh of relief
Yeah, now he can continue slacking off.
I hope Sanchez is still with the Yankees when his contract year comes up. He is paycheck player with some of the best talent at the catcher position. His bat is equal to Piazza’s in his prime. Unfortunately, he has no drive and doesn’t love the game like other players like Trout, Baez, Tatis and Gardner. It’s a shame. One of the most naturally gifted players in the game today and he could care less. He could be on a HOF trajectory but he would rather be a bum. I wish you could take his natural athletic ability and transfer it to someone like Austin Romine. Someone who would appreciate it. Someone who would put in the work to actually improve their game. Instead he just coasts by and doesn’t care. I bet he has a career year the season before free agency and some team will give him $100+ million. I hope it’s not the Yankees cause he will definitely become the next Vernon Wells after he signs his deal.
You lost me at the “his bat is equal to Piazza’s in his prime”
After that gibberish I lost all interest in your ramblings…….
I know right? Equal to piazza’s?! Lolol. Waaaaay better than Piazza’s, no question.
Literally a tough break for Robinson even if he was never going to make the team. I was still rooting for him. Not sure how many chances he has left. Hopefully he can catch on somewhere when he’s healthy again.
I’ve watched him in a few games this spring & was impressed. Strong throwing arm & blocking capabilities. Too bad, hope the break isn’t serious & he can come back. He showed command & confidence behind the plate.
@curly imo that’s the important stats of a c how good is he behind the plate and how he interacts with the pitching staff. c should not be a focal point of your off a c real value is the non numerical values i.e. calling a game holding runners blocking crap pitches ect. if sanchez is committed to being a good c then throw out your off numbers and work on the important things that make a c good. if not then the yankees need to move on from him and let him be a dh or 1 bagger on a rebuilding team.
This could be his swan song. That would make him Robinson Caruso.
Robinson Crusoe*
But definitely. I could see Robinson Chirinos going on a journey that mirrors British Colonialism if he doesn’t get another shot at the majors.
Actually Caruso. If it’s a swan song you want Caruso singing it. Clever play on names.
This must be outside of my entertainment knowledge (which I admit is not too expansive). My bad dude.
Either way I stand by Robinson Chirinos traveling the world by boat, debating whether he has the authority to punish cannibals, and just generally traveling places like he belongs there.
Well, Caruso was like a hundred years ago, so it’s quite ok if you don’t know who he was. He made hit operatic recordings in the early 1900’s.
Learn something new everyday and probably the most unique thing I’ve learned on a baseball site.
He also had the first recording to sell over a million copies…. ‘Vesti la giubba’ from Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci. It was recorded in November 1902 and released by GT.
guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-milli….
Sanchez’s work ethic is not to be questioned. He works at it, just not sure he can consistently produce. Very skeptical he can ever be even an average catcher defensively. I think he’s slow to adjust to the pitchers and will always be prone to short outbursts of brilliance followed by long periods of bad performance.
This is accurate. I am a Yankee fan and follow all things Yankees and everyone says he works hard, perhaps too hard. Much of the criticism against him is in trying to up his defense his hitting began to suffer.
He doesn’t have the physique of an athlete that works hard.
He’s actually in great shape after playing winter ball. I’ve always been the first to point out Sanchez’s lack of athletic physique but from the pictures I saw, he looks like he’s in fantastic shape this year. Maybe he can actually block a pitch in the dirt now.
Rusty Staub & John Kruk had chunky physiques, look what they accomplished. Just because you look soft doesn’t mean your not hard as nails
Do you even watch sports? I’ve personally witnessed during pre-game warmups the likes of Bartolo Colon, CC Sabathia, Panda, etc. contort their bodies like Olympic gymnasts. Same for football players. Appearances have very little to do with how athletic one is.
Gary’s work ethic is legendary at the Hot Buffet in Washington Heights.
La Isla cuchifrito. Check it out. El Duque had guys running back and forth to this place. Off the hook good
As long as Sanchez hits I and the Yankees can deal with subpar defense
Probably is Sanchez CAN NOT HIT!
i’d rather have a catcher who hits .087 and dose the little things behind the plate and the “stuff” you can’t put on a stat sheet. than a catcher that can hit .300+ with 40 bombs and all the great adv numbers too. catcher is not the position you sacrifice d for o.
Rob Brantley…you have moved up to 3rd catcher on the depth chart
That bomb he hit on the first day of spring training was nice
Brantly**
He had no chance to make the Yankees. He was in camp in case either Sanchez or the back-up catcher, whose name I can’t spell, were injured. Instead, it was Chirinos who got injured.
Higashioka the home run stroka
“productive bat for much of his career, hitting .234/.329/.439”
Amazing that here in 2021 we consider these kinds of numbers “productive”.
All the same, wishing him a speedy recovery.
Those really are productive batting stats for a catcher
Chirinos was never a threat to Sanchez, or probably even to Higashoika. Due to covid unpredictability, all teams are required to have a 5 player taxi squad when they play on the road, in addition to their 26 man roster.. One player on the taxi squad must be a catcher. That was Chirinos. He was signed to be on the covid taxi squad. Question is, who will be the taxi squad catcher now?
As usual, any story adjacent to Sanchez brings out the basement dwellers.
Chirinos was more of a threat to higgy not to Gaby not sure why anyone would think otherwise Gary yes has been suppar past two years but he also has had revolving catching instructors & funny how people willing to run him out of town saying he has no work ethic yet even cashman himself has stated no one has worked harder or is the first to arrive than gary his issue has been the different philosophies by his different instructors he is a big guy not even close to say like john kruk as most as mentioned here as a joke stating he is out of shape he has arms that are more like tree trunks I expect Gary this year to hit 30 hrs hit .270 make the allstar team and cement himself as one of the best catchers.
JT Realmuto is off to bad a start already after signing his contract but just a few years ago no one would say he was the best catcher in the game.
Catchers in MLB is the most demanding of all positions and most difficult to sustain excellence and up until past two years Gary was one of the best catchers period and youngest to reach 100 hrs for all catchers but also second all time for all players
Higgy wasn’t go anywhere as he’s Cole’s personal catcher. I’m aware that Cole has changed his tune on this recenty. Barring injury, I’d be surprise if he catches Cole less than 40% of his starts this season. Cole starts will coincide with a Sanchez DH day or rest.
Time to call Tyler Flowers.
Wow, first Britton and now Chirinos. In the past, the yankees would dicker around, make empty statements about players’ status, and then eventually just admit the guy was done and let him go have surgery. Maybe now that the pacemaker is installed, they realize they need to actually do something to make a player get better. I know Boone doesn’t make these decisions but in the past he has been the mouthpiece of vacuous team statements. Maybe the yankees realized they didn’t have a patsy for their nonsense anymore and decided to actually take action on their injured players. What a concept.
*yawn*
Get a better troll game.
The award for the “stupidest comment of the day” goes to @whyhayzee. Is anyone really surprised?
Why, do you need like a hundred examples? Are you kidding me? Keep wearing those yankee fan blinders.
Nah, @whyhaze.
Ya gotta give it to @Yankee-4-Life75 on this one.
He’s right.
wow please tell me whyhaze is at least drunk or on lsd because that has to be one of the dumbest post i’ve ever read. i should know i read what i post on here lol
I immediately scroll past anything he posts. It’s amazing the mods haven’t IP-banned him.
Every time Boone spoke, he said nothing. Vacuous statements about injuries. The team is a mess.
On September 4, the Yankees said Loaisiga was suffering from “a medical condition that prevents him from playing and necessitates placement on the injured list,” with manager Aaron Boone later specifying that the right-hander’s absence was not due to COVID-19.
The Yankees’ season has again been punctuated by injuries for high-profile players, but manager Aaron Boone tells reporters that both Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton could get at-bats at the alternate training site this weekend and return “shortly after that” if all goes well (Twitter link, with video, via SNY). On a less-optimistic note, MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch tweets that Boone also acknowledged it will be “challenging” for lefty James Paxton to return this season.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone provided reporters (including ESPN’s Marly Rivera) with updates on injured sluggers Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge, saying that Judge will increase his baseball-activity work on Monday. Stanton, who Boone feels is “a little ahead of Judge” in terms of readiness, has already been taking part in baseball activities and is now running at 80 percent as he continues his recovery from a hamstring strain.
The Yankees announced Friday that third baseman Gio Urshela and right-hander Jonathan Loaisiga have been placed on the 10-day injured list. Urshela is dealing with a bone spur in his right elbow, while Loasigia has “a medical condition that prevents him from playing and necessitates placement on the injured list,” per the team’s release. Manager Aaron Boone tells reporters (Twitter link via The Athletic’s Lindsey Adler) that Loaisiga’s condition is not Covid-19 related.
The Yankees are placing Aaron Judge back on the injured list with a similar low-grade calf strain to the one that shelved him earlier this month, manager Aaron Boone tells reporters (Twitter link via James Wagner of the New York Times). Judge only just came off the injured list this week, but he exited his first game back with tightness in his problematic calf muscle.
Bone spurs and calf strains aside, nothing at all.
Lol
Look at this! ^
Bro…you can’t seriously expect any of us to actually read all that do you? Good heavens you must have a very high opinion of yourself.
We see you as nothing more than a hate-filled, spiteful, wimpy, little weasel with a keyboard. None of us are going to waste our time reading this, man
@Ducky Buckin Fent- well said! All @whyhayzee wants to do is troll, his comments like him make zero sense. So tired of all his non-sense. He needs to get a life and to grow up.
Man.
Ya know, he actually hinted to me that he’s a little embarrassed by his comportment. He literally posted that he “needs a new hobby”.
I suggested my favorites: bird hunting, waterfowling, cafe racers, fly fishing, sail boats…
I think he’s just really…umm… let’s just say not that kind of guy. If I was a better man, I’d probably pity him. But, well, I’m me.
But I’m certainly not going to read all that lol. Why?
wow just even skimming that was painful, can you guys tell how boone is going to stop bone spurs and soft tissue injuries. other than urshela these injuries fall more on the players (either over/under preparing) and the training staff.
@whyhayzee if your gonna troll the yanks least make witty so we can least get laugh
Curse of the Yankee cheating ways strikes once again.
can you explain how the yankees are cheating they haven’t won a ws since 09, if there cheating there doing a p1$$ poor job of it unless there goal is to cheat to just be mediocre.
Joe Girardi accidentally stated live on air in mlb Network how they were stealing signs in 2017/2018 from the press boxes. Plus the vid of the high lens camera during their 2018 WC game. Plus the letter that the judge needs to unseal. I mean I could go on towards the Mitchell Report but there’s prob characters ceiling on MLBTR.
Boohoo….bad Yankees….wah wah wah