NY injury updates

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I thought I'd start a thread for these and run through the latest updates on where guys stand:

Luke Voit: At the alternate site now and slowly ramping up, probably ready to return in 1-2 weeks.

Zack Britton: They put him on the 60 day IL to clear a 40 man spot and expect him ready when he is eligible, which is the end of May.

Luis Severino: Cashman said this week he is on track and they expect him back sometime between June-August.

Clarke Schmidt: Finally some positive signs here, Boone mentioned him yesterday:

"Schmidt recently began playing catch as he tries to rehabilitate a common flexor tendon straight he suffered at the start of spring training. The 25-year-old righty received a second opinion and a cortisone shot April 13.

“He’s doing well,” manager Aaron Boone told reporters. “He’s thrown now two or three times in his catch play and each time has gone well so hopefully he’s on his way now to start building up. Obviously, it’s going to take a while because he’s starting from scratch essentially, but he’s doing well.”"

Robinson Chirinos: NY's third string catcher, hit by a pitch in the wrist in spring training and had surgery to repair it on March 16, with a 4-6 weeks estimated recovery period, so he should be starting to get back soon hopefully.
 

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Voit will play games for AA Somerset when they start on Tuesday, they are hoping to have him back a week later (5/11).
 

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Darren O'Day onto the IL with a right rotator cuff strain, Michael King back up.
 

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Not really an "injury" but WTF is going on here?

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/yankees-gleyber-torres-tests-positive-for-covid-19-team-up-to-eight-cases-and-cdc-will-look-into-outbreak/

The New York Yankees have had eight members of their traveling party test positive for COVID-19, the team announced. Third base coach Phil Nevin, first base coach Reggie Willits, pitching coach Matt Blake, and four support staffers were among the positives earlier this week. On Thursday, the team announced infielder Gleyber Torres has tested positive as well.

As with the other seven positive cases, Torres had been fully vaccinated, and in fact he had previously contracted COVID-19 this past December. Here is the team's statement:

"The Yankees can today confirm that INF Gleyber Torreshas received a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. He was fully vaccinated and previously had COVID-19 during the most recent baseball offseason ... Torres is the eighth Yankees player, coach or traveling staff member to test positive this week. All of the positives are breakthrough positives, occurring with individuals who were fully vaccinated.
Major League Baseball, its medical experts and the New York State Department of Health are currently advising and assisting the Yankees, who continue to undergo additional testing and contact tracing."
 

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It also sounds that all the cases were asymptomatic. So does that mean the J&J vaccine was effective in preventing them from coming down with it but didn't stop them from being carriers?
 

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It also sounds that all the cases were asymptomatic. So does that mean the J&J vaccine was effective in preventing them from coming down with it but didn't stop them from being carriers?
It sounds like they likely all got it during a rain delay in NY last weekend when the coaches were confined to a small room. My guess is one person gave it to all of them and most or all of them would never have noticed they even had it if they hadn't been getting tested constantly.
 

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OK, let's do a run through:

Stanton: Day to day with left quad tightness.

Gleyber: Day to day with a positive Covid test, Boone seemed to imply he might be back shortly but he doesn't really know.

Hicks: Torn sheath on his wrist tendon, this could be the kind of thing where he is back quickly or needs surgery and is out longer term, we just need to wait and see. Teixeira had this injury in two separate seasons with NY, one time he was back quickly and hit great after that, one time he was out long-term.

Severino: He started to pitch to live hitters this week, now he is in the start of the spring training mode and will get built up over the next month or so.

Britton: On track to be activated 5/31, the first day he can.

O'Day: Still shut down for another week or two.
 

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Oh, and Odor is not too far away, working out with the team and likely activated in the next week sometime.
 

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It also sounds that all the cases were asymptomatic. So does that mean the J&J vaccine was effective in preventing them from coming down with it but didn't stop them from being carriers?
Quote from recent WaPo article:
Is [the Yankees’ outbreak] predictable? I think it is predictable if you have a vaccine that doesn’t prevent that particular outcome of covid and if you’re relaxing some of the infection-prevention practices that we’ve been practicing for a while now during the pandemic. So if you’re gathering indoors and taking off masks and being closer to one another and you have a vaccine that doesn’t prevent asymptomatic infection [as well as the others], then you’ll see these events if you’re testing for it.
 

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They have Chris Gittens but they inexplicably won’t bring him up, I think they expect Odor back in the next day or two.
 

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The contract that appeared to be a good deal seems much less so now.
Four more years after this too. The first three years of the deal have been almost a total washout, with the massive exception of his three run HR off Verlander in the 2019 ALCS, the first time NY ever beat him in the postseason after much frustration.
 

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Four more years after this too. The first three years of the deal have been almost a total washout, with the massive exception of his three run HR off Verlander in the 2019 ALCS, the first time NY ever beat him in the postseason after much frustration.
Aaron Hicks always said* he wanted to be mentioned in the same breath as Jacoby Ellsbury







* as far as I know he never said this
 

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Brutal, maybe my man Chris Gittens will finally get a shot.
 

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I had to look up subscap. Biggest muscle in the rotator cuff, so maybe he was close to really hurting that? No wonder they're being cautious.

Voit grade 2 oblique strain.

View: https://twitter.com/lindseyadler/status/1397662106661576722?s=21
While not rotator-cuff related, his prior injury (teres) was also related to keeping his shoulder intact. No one has officially connected the two, but this doesn't seem to be a surprising cascade for a 35-year old pitcher. Its too bad, as he had returned to good form.
 

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Britton and Severino are both pretty close to returning.

Britton has had a few rehab outings in AA games and was moved to AAA today, so maybe he will join the team for the TOR series a week from now.

Severino threw 34 pitches in a low A game on Sunday, Mike Axisa goes into the Statcast numbers in the linked piece below to show that Severino's stuff is the same as it was the last time we saw him in MLB, velocity and spin rates. NY has already said they plan to activate him before he is fully stretched out, so he should be back in 2-3 weeks with no setbacks (Axisa goes into this in the piece also).

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/yankees-stock-watch-why-luis-severinos-first-rehab-start-was-promising-struggles-on-the-bases-vs-al-east/
 

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Britton back and activated today, Severino in his second rehab outing (starting for high A Hudson Valley) and Voit starting a rehab outing somewhere tomorrow.
 

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Queue the "our trade deadline acquisitions are on their way back to being healthy" that you hear from basically every team who doesn't make a big splash.