The Yankees have reinstated slugger Giancarlo Stanton from the 10-day injured list, per the team. He is back on the active roster batting cleanup as the designated hitter.
New York weathered the loss of Stanton just fine, having gone 7-2 in his absence. Stanton spent the minimum amount of time away, missing only nine games. Prior to his placement on the injured list, Stanton was hitting .285/.339/.523 in 168 plate appearances with 11 long balls.
The corresponding roster moves were made yesterday after last night’s ballgame. Miguel Andujar was optioned to Triple-A. Andujar appeared in 12 games, slashing .268/.279/.317 through 43 plate appearances while mostly playing left field.
Tim Locastro also completed his rehab assignment. He was reinstated and optioned to Triple-A as well. The speedy Locastro is largely a reserve option for the Yankees. His ability to play all three outfield positions provides some value as a pinch-runner and defensive replacement.
Please DFA gallo in a corresponding move
This was guaranteed after they sent down Andujar last night. Glad to see Stanton and Donaldson back.
Andujar has improved defensively. They could easily move on from Gallo.
I was surprised at how natural Andujar looked in LF. For the first time, he looked like an OFer as opposed to an infielder trying to learn the OF. He didn’t light it up with his bat, but his ABs were competitive. I’d have no issue if they shipped out Gallo and turned LF over to Andujar and turn Hicks into a roving 4th OFer, meaning playing all three OF positions.
They should tell Andujar to work on taking walks during this stretch at Scranton. Get his OBP up to .330 and they can then move on from Gallo.
Yes they can.but are they willing to eat the money? After all they got him for free last year, so what’s the big deal ,theyre already ahead
They got him for “free” cash wise, but they certainly paid a price in prospects. Not high-level prospects, but still at least a couple who I believe will be productive major leaguers. There’s a balance between being patient and being stubborn. The Yankees should realize Gallo is just not going to work, and figure out how best to move on while improving the team, with an eye toward the postseason. They simply can not give ABs every game in the postseason to Gallo. He swings through 92-mph meatballs. Postseason pitchers will eat him alive, although it’s difficult to say he’ll be any worse, since he he looks horrible right now.
The Yankees gave away prospects last year so they could reset the luxury tax. That won’t be an issue this year. They have money to play with before they hit the next threshold, so they’ll be open to adding salary for this season. They need to settle Judge’s arbitration hearing first so they know exactly how much they have to work with.
Who’s going down? Andujar or Banuelos?
Andujar. They also optioned Locastro, who was rehabbing. Carpenter took his spot.
Banuelos is an interesting situation. They can’t option him without sending him through waivers. He’d be grabbed so I think he’s here for an extended look.
Thanks for the info! Didn’t realize that Banuelos couldn’t be sent down without being exposed to waivers.
sorry to see Andujar go… They’ll miss his bat. Gotta say Ciao to Joey Gallo
Absolutely ridiculous to keep Gallo and send andujar down… andujar doing well in the field, Gallo is not, andujar is hitting, Gallo isn’t even making contact… a sac fly once in awhile wouldn’t hurt
Gallo provides strong defense and left handed power, if he can break out of his prolonged slump. It’s very frustrating to watch him at the plate right now but I still have faith he can turn it around
Gallo needs to go play for a lousy team again so he can “be who he is” offensively and not have to worry about making adjustments and winning ballgames.
StudWinfield, You are quite right. Gallo is not able to play in New York. Yanks should off him to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, or another small market team. If anyone would pay the approximately 7 million he is owed for the rest of the season, the Yankees should jump on it. Seven million and a roster position is worth more to the Yankees than Gallo.
I imagine Gallo will do just that next year, but for the next few months he’s still a Yankee. If he can just get close to his career numbers, he’ll be valuable to the team
Yes. A slump is not playing horrendously for over 100 games. Gallo needs to go, he be can be replaced by a potato.
Exactly. He said over 100 games to show what he has, and we can see it is nothing
Only if the potato bats left handed.
Has anyone scouted Ore-Ida yet?
I think that a huge upgrade Lars.
@DR, the issue is good Gallo never showed up. Before he put on a Yankee uniform, he was a feast-or-famine type of hitter, but overall very productive. All we got is the famine since he arrived last July. Good Gallo was left behind in Texas. The Joey Gallo of Texas was a career 116 OPS+ hitter who could carry a team for a month. The Joey Gallo of NY is an 85 OPS+ hitter (and only 72 this season), and has done nothing in nearly 400 PAs. Maybe he is the hitter version of Javier Vázquez, who just isn’t going to produce while in NY.
BTW It’s quite possible that Andujar showed the Yankees enough so that they will now be comfortable moving Gallo. Andjuar can request a trade, as he did, but he’s under Yankee control and their job is not to move him just because he wants out. His job is to prepare and be ready. He’s being paid $1.3M this year to fill exactly this role. It’s a good living if you find it.
“Before he put on a Yankee uniform, he was a feast-or-famine type of hitter, but overall very productive.”
This is precisely why I dislike TTO-style players and think they’re overrated. And I was/am a Gallo fan. I bought into his acquisition lock-stock & barrel. Unless you drill down game-by-game, AB-by-AB, you can get someone who appear really decent with good power, but gets all his numbers from non-critical ABs, in games that aren’t close, against teams that aren’t really good. And, if the famine comes at the wrong time, it’s the difference between losing a series, or the playoffs, and winning with a player a bit more consistent.
I really enjoy watching Andujar when he hits. The gap-to-gap line drives are awesome. Moves the lineup, moves the steaks, wins ballgames.
Too many TTO guys is a problem. I’ve been preaching lineup diversity for. a few years, meaning a mix of lefty and righty hitters, and a mix of boppers with higher-contact guys. The Yankees went too far in one direction. They’re moving away from that, but Gallo is the biggest issue. I suspect they will address this by the trade deadline.
They do it because they can, regardless of the impact to the psyche on the player. I’m sure they would send gallows down if they could. Miggy will be back I’m sure. And hopefully this time for good
Whoa, Doc! Nobody is talking about bringing out gallows here… we want him gone, but not that way!
A slip of the typewriter Clip.
It is time to cut hair on Hicks. He’s below average defensively now and a below average bat. Maybe put together a deal with a mid level prospect or two (Deivi Garcia and Estevan Florial) and throw in 10 million to make Hicks remaining balance $20 mill and get a AAA reliever or a better back up catcher than Higgy. Than recall Andujar.
Hold off on dealing Gallo as defensively he’s a stud and if his bat catches up he can be good for us down the stretch or maybe we can deal him and get something at the deadline.
Judge becomes full time CF, Gallo and Stanton share RF, Andujar in left with Carpenter and Gonzalez on the bench.
No one is giving you anything for Hicks if they also have to pay half his salary
Brutal. The man is bald and you still want to cut his hair. Hicks has no trade value. They are better off keeping him a roving fourth OF’er/pinch runner. Garcia has shown past success and has mechanical issues so no reason to sell low on him.
Nobody will give you anything for Gallo or Hicks they both completely useless. Gallo they can just release they already got his services for 10 million for two years, and much of the 10 million is already gone as over a third of the season is gone already. At some point I’m sure they will let Gallo go for marginal return if any.
Hicks are stuck with ,nobody’s going to give you anything for him and they still have him for three years. Judges shown he can capably play center so let Hicks be a back up ,and they could find a part-time centerfielder somewhere better than Hicks who can alternate with Judge. agreed.
“The man is bald and you still want to cut his hair.”
Hahaha!
That makes no sense. Why package him with prospects for a trade when they can just cut him? $10mil for 3 years is chump change to the Yankees, Cashman is just too stubborn to dump him bc it would be admitting that acquiring and extending Hicks was a horrible idea. Just dump him and call up Florial. The sun will go supernova before any team is interested in trading for Hicks.
Yankees Bingo
You can check off Florial in an outgoing trade folks
The only thing Miggy has going for him is he’s not Gallo or Hicks. He still sucks and he’s not out producing Hicks either. Locastro is the one who deserves an extended look if the Gallo nightmare ever ends.
Miggy has a 0.3 bWAR and Hicks has a -0.2 bWAR, so, yeah, Miggy is outproducing Hicks.
Miggy outproducing Hicks and Gallo put together
Yankees any good this year? Remember in the 90’s and early 2000’s when they’d win every year? What happened to that? They sign a lot of players but they never seem to make it very deep into the post season. Is that an ownership thing or is it management or just a bad location and fanbase? The Yankees used to be one of the best teams in all of sports like the Red Sox or the warriors and honestly I haven’t thought about them at all in like 10 years LOL
In spite of your indifference, the Yankees have the most wins in the majors this year. Thanks for checking in.
Oh nice maybe they’ll make it to the World Series for the first time since my 13 year old son was born
They are a very well run team. Perhaps the most successful team in the sport. But by all means act as if a 13 year WS drought (in a league if 30 teams no less) is some sort of sign of incompetence. Give me a break. They are doing everything right.
@cosmo the way their fans talk about them you’d think they were 10 games under .500 lol.
Your post confirms your alleged lack of thought.
They’ll run into the astros in the playoffs and get beat down again
Why, are they banging trash cans again?
I would not doubt it, they know that there’s no penalty to the players. Only penalty the plays would be if they trashed talked, ask Donaldson
When they met in 2017, the Yankees scored 22 runs and the Astros scored 20. When they met in 2019, the Yankees scored 21 runs and the Astros scored 22.
That’s a “beat down” in your mind?
There are bandwagon and real fans and plenty of them.
Showing your age cause they were middling in my personal memory until 1995. It helps when your owner gets banned from baseball…to leave your front office to actually DO the job of developing talent. People forget 1982-1994…wasted most of Don Mattinglys career.
Joey Gallo Has Multiple Gold Gloves,This Is Why He Is A Yankee To Begin With,Why Trade Him Away,When We Need Him To Defend The Outfield?
What Will It Take To Get Joey Gallo To Also Hit With The Rest Of The Team?
Why the hell do you capitalize every word son
Andujar comes up, plays good defense in left field (2 DRS, 0 OAA, 96% success rate), bats .268, bats .333 in high-leverage at-bats, has an 0.18 Win Probability Added — and he gets sent down.
Gallo, whose fielding has declined (0 DRS, -3 OAA, 82% success rate), bats .177, bats .077 in high-leverage at-bats, has a -1.10 Win Probability Added — and he keeps his roster spot.
The New York Yankees can’t afford to eat the prorated amount of Gallo’s $10.28M salary and give the spot to the obviously more deserving player?
Andujar does not move the needle on pushing Gallo out the door. His numbers are a marginal improvement and still a much smaller SS.
I’d be looking at bringing in Laureano or Winker myself. Other than Benetendi I’m not sure if there is a surefire upgrade available.
The Yankees manifestly don’t need an upgrade. Eliminating Gallo in favor of Andujar, however, would be addition by subtraction at the very least. The more exposure Miggy has had, the better he’s played. So far, the only arguable plus to having Gallo in the lineup is the fear factor of his long ball ability, but how much that actually contributes is arguable and theoretical at best.
Pink, People also cherry pic stats or metrics that they want to use to press a player or devalue him. True some of the miggys stats are not stellar ,but others are not bad,and sometimes you have to trust the eye test as well. What I have seen is every day that Mickey played while he was up in the majors this year he did something to win a game or to contribute, whether it be a fly ball to score a run, a walk, a stolen base or a base hit. And that’s what counts most even though it won’t be reflected in these so-called advanced stats for those who worship them. And his war during his 12 days here in the majors was greater than gallos for the entire year by a large margin
agreed. pink. In every day that Miggy play he contributed something, even if it wasn’t a hit ,a sacrifice fly ,a walk a stolen base , there even was one game where he supplied all the offense. The poor guy just can’t cut a break though the Yankees don’t want to lose their investment on Gallo. If he can at least regress to the mean and play better for a few games, maybe they think they can get a can of soup for him at least?
I would just release them and absorb the 7 million whatever that he’s owed, but it’s not my money. They probably wanna wait till the trade deadline when he’s owed less money and they could dump him on some other poor sucker of a team
I don’t think there’s much question that it’s all about money. Andujar has requested a trade, but I have no confidence that Cashman is a nice enough, fair enough guy to honor the request.
They’ll dump Gallo before moving Andujar. He’s not bringing anything helpful back.
You know, on second thought, I think it might be about more than just the money.
Cashman dealt away four players for Gallo, and two of them are already starting players for the Rangers.
If Cashman is ruining Andujar’s career because admitting the failure of the Gallo trade would be too embarrassing, that would be pretty darned unethical.
“Cashman dealt away four players for Gallo, and two of them are already starting players for the Rangers.”
That’s precisely what it is. Although a small sample size, just take Gallo’s performance in this past series: how often did he strike out, or pop out [to an IFer], with RISP and at least once or twice was with the bases juiced. That performance has been indicative of his tenure as a Yankee. He’s simply anti-clutch. He’s the guaranteed out. The guy you want in the box in a critical situation [if you’re on the opposing team].
And, as much as I like Gallo, he doesn’t seem to have the disposition to overcome this. He’s way too much inside his own head. Probably an incredibly nice guy – he could date my sister, probably love him as a neighbor; but he’s not well-suited for the NYY.
And Hicks, my oh my. Aaron Hicks. He finally hits one past the IF and still get thrown out at second base. He can’t do anything right without overcompensating with a boneheaded move. Good Lord, at least Gallo tries. Hicks also almost ran into Judge {again} last night. If that doofus hurts Judge in a collision they should dock his salary.
Man, that’s a Hobson’s choice — Hicks or Gallo. Gallo does seem to try harder, but it would seem merciful to move him to another team. I always doubted the validity of the New York pressure thing, but he really seems unable to perform with the Yankees.
Very true, I think I misrepresented my position. I would certainly send Gallo elsewhere. He simply cannot play in NY it seems. I was referring more to watching their play.
But, I wouldn’t keep Hicks because of what he’s owed. At minimum, I would transition him to a bench role.
Clip, I would too. But Cashman’s not going to in his eyes throw away 30 million, And who would be foolish enough to take that contract even if some of it was paid off. But hicks would be OK as a bench bat, or a back up in the outfield once in a while, as long as they have a true centerfielder they can at least spell Judge once at center
What is the over under for the number of days till Stanton goes back on the IL?
Well Andujar has asked for a trade according to Ken Rosenthal.
I don’t blame him, the Yankees have treated him poorly. He’s shown that he can contribute., And they still send them down to the minors where he has nothing left to prove. They should just trade him already so he thrive somewhere else. The Yankees don’t think he’s good enough to play for them? But they continue to play Gallo and Hicks who are both total nothings only because they owe money, that says it all hal has his wallet tightly clenched
Andujar / Sweeney for Benintini.
And trade Gallo for some young arms.
Who’s Sweeney?
Trey Sweeney. SS, although some believe he’ll move to either 3B or 2B. Yankees #1 pick from last season, #20 pick overall. Had a nice rookie season (930+ OPS). Started off strong this season, but then got injured and has not hit since his return, but that’s likely as he’s getting back into form. He projects as a MLB hitter. Not sure the Yankees would part with him for only a half season of Benintendi. He’s a favorite of the analytics guys.
Thanks, Rob. Forgot about him completely.
I don’t know what to make of Benintendi. He’s having a career year at age 27. One study done 12 years ago put the peak age for MLB players at 29. But Judge is peaking at 30, and he still might not have reached his peak. His defensive metrics are contradictory, which is often the case, so I can’t form any judgment about his fielding. He’d certainly be an upgrade over Hicks and Gallo if he’s even just adequate in the field.
As for trading Sweeney, if the Yankees didn’t have five shortstops among their top 30 prospects, maybe it would be a gamble to trade him. Remember: the analytics guys loved Gallo, too. I suspect it’d take more than Andujar and Sweeney to get Benintendi unless there’s no trade competition. The Royals’ #5 prospect is a shortstop, Nick Lofton.
Would Volpe and Andujar be enough for Bryan Reynolds?
The more i think about it these teams should find a trade that works. Yankees need a Cf. I think it would take another good prospect, maybe a pitcher like Medina.
I don’t think they do. The Yankees are currently on pace for 113 wins or something. All they need to do is win the division and get home field advantage in the playoffs. The marginal wins added isn’t worth giving up Volpe. Judge is fine playing CF and, if you asked him, he’d prefer to stay there this year going into free agency.
Probably but that still leaves an expensive logjam of outfielders
No. Andujar is a throw in and Volpe is a single prospect. They’d have to add more prospect wise. Certainly at least another blue-chipper.
I think we have to be rational about Andujar. Even in AAA this year, he hit a fairly pedestrian .289/.337/.443. That would be ok in the majors, but not AAA for a guy who have nearly 1000 PAs as a major leaguer and is in his third season in AAA. He should be destroying AAA pitching if he’s still good, but he’s not. And while he looked decent over the last week in the majors, he still has only a .596 OPS. You know who also has a .596 OPS this year? Aaron HIcks. The shoulder surgery Andujar had was major. Some hitters regain full function, some don’t. It’s possible the 2018 version of Andujar who finished 2nd in the ROY. voting is long gone post surgery. Sad, but possibly true. So teams will take Andujar on the hopes he can find his rookie form, but they won’t value him that highly until he shows he can do that. He’s worth more to the Yankees to see what he has left, or to fill an up-and-down reserve tole as he’s doing now.
Andujar’s .289 is the highest BA in Scranton and his .780 OPS is third. The RailRiders are terrible this year.
The Yankees should honor his trade request.
Disagree on this point. The Yankees should not be giving away their depth. We just saw when they needed it, and they will need it again.
I don’t understand when Yankee fans want to weaken their team. Andujar has rights under the CBA, as do the Yankees. They kept him for a reason. They’re paying him $1.3MM to serve this role. He will be out of options after this season. He’ll either be on the Yankees, or some other team. For 2022, he is part of their depth.
If Andujar’s not good enough to supplant Hicks or Gallo, they’ve got Florial in Scranton with an .810 OPS, highest on the team, and he can play center field. Let him be the depth option. Stashing him down in Triple-A when he’s 24 isn’t as bad as stashing Andujar down there when he’s already 27 years old. Florial can still have a career.
Only the Yankees would take someone who finished 2nd in the rookie of the year voting behind ohtani, and let him play only 12 games the next year. Enjoy the regular season success Yankees we all know it’s only a matter of time before they lose in the playoffs
Actually, any of the 30 teams would’ve let him play only 12 games since he was on the IL for the rest of the games.
See what happens when you troll?
since he was 2nd in the rookie of the year voting outside of a little not even 10 game hot streak around this time last year … miggy has 2 hr and 15 rbis in 75 games in 4 years with an ops around 60 or 70 and until this year couldnt play the field. The batting stats even include this years batting stats. Could he have turned things around maybe but to say he is a difference maker is highly suspect especially when half those games were against KC Bal and Det. Id’ rather take locastro back in the bigs to keep judge healthy and keep him in the corner some of those games and a pinch runner in close games.
Andujar has 7 HR and 20 RBI in 78 games since 2020. That’s some cherry-picking to carve 5 of his 7 HR and 5 of his 20 RBI out of a sample that small, don’t you think? As for the strength of opponents, his OPS this year against >=.500 teams is 72 points higher than against <.500 teams.
Nobody's saying he's elite. But he's been playing better than Gallo and Hicks, and his WAR confirms it.
just Yes!
This is Boone’s quote from Bryan Hoch’s article about Andujar’s trade request:
“Competition and performance all matters, and goes into more and more opportunities,” Boone said before Saturday’s game. “Those things kind of declare themselves as you keep moving forward.”
How does he have the gall to make that statement with Gallo and Hicks in the lineup today?
Dr. Boonedoggle probably even has a gall bladder but he would call it, “One of those thingys inside you that has gall.”
yogi had his Yogisms, and Boone has his Booneisms. Just like his decisions on the field sometimes make no sense ,or his explanations of them afterwards, nor do his statements often times
The Yankees have the best team now , deepest roster , good thing Cashman kept his job because almost every one of you Yankee fans wanted to get rid of Cash pre season. Trust the process.
I’ll cop to that. I wanted Hal to move on from Cashman. This year’s team surprised me. But there’s a lot of season left, so I”m not counting chickens yet.
I will cop to it too. But I think they are winning in spite of , not because of him. Who knew judge would do this this year, at this point. The pitchers are performing an unprecedented rate. Nobody knew Severino would do this well after Tommy John ,and missing three years, or that Nestor would become what he is doing this year. With the payroll the Cashman has every year almost anybody could’ve created a winning team, and probably years before this. So I still say it’s time for Cashman to go.
As I’ve written before, I’ve been one of Cashman’s (& Boone’s) most ardent critics, particularly this past offseason. I’m pleasantly surprised with the Yankees season thus far, and if history is any indicator, there’s a 100% chance they make it to the WS based on their current performance.
If they do and I was wrong, I am okay with that. Good for Boone, Cash, and Yankees Nation. Obviously, Cashman still has it. He’s got to be considered one of the better GMs in the game anyway. But, yeah, man, I was down on Cash, thought he was destined for failure this year. Good thing he’s the GM, eh?
I cop to it too,clipper. But I still believe it. I think they’re winning in spite of Cashman and Boone,not because of them.With the payroll he’s had over the last two decades, it’s not surprising that he’d get a winning team sometimes, it’s the ape theory of engineering ,if you understand me.