According to Joe Dixon, RHP Matt Sauer will have Tommy John surgery this week. Bummer. He was placed on the Low-A Charleston injured list last week and it has since been determined he needs ligament reconstruction. The Yankees have not confirmed the news, though that’s not unusual for a non-40-man roster minor leaguer. Sauer, 20, allowed three runs in 8.2 innings with the RiverDogs before the injury. The Yankees gave him $2.5M as their second round pick in 2017.
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (8-6 loss to Rochester)
- LF Trey Amburgey: 1-5, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 2 K — now hitting .288/.323/.441 with Scranton after hitting .258/.300/.418 in Trenton last year
- 1B Ryan McBroom: 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB
- 2B Gosuke Katoh: 2-4, 1 K — multiple hits in five of 12 games this year
- RHP Drew Hutchison: 4.1 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 5 BB, 2 K, 3 HB, 5/2 GB/FB — 52 of 96 pitches were strikes (54%) … five walks and three hit batsmen in 4.1 innings? not even mad, that’s an impressive number of free baserunners
- LHP Stephen Tarpley: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1/0 GB/FB — 13 of 23 pitches were strikes (57%) … 7/4 K/BB in six total innings this year
The Double-A Trenton Thunder were rained out. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
High-A Tampa Tarpons (9-4 win over Charlotte)
- CF Pablo Olivares: 2-4, 1 R, 1 HBP
- SS Diego Castillo: 1-4, 1 HBP — 10-for-29 (.345) during his eight-game hitting streak
- 2B Oswaldo Cabrera: 2-4, 2 R, 1 K, 1 HBP — had been in a little 2-for-22 (.091) skid
- 1B Dermis Garcia: 3-5, 3 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 K — third straight game with a dinger … hitting .313/.338/.642 with six dingers (one was an inside-the-parker) … here’s some video of his first five homers, you can see how the ball just explodes off his bat … Garcia figuring it out right as we shut down RAB would be something … RAB must die so Dermis can live
- RF Isiah Gilliam: 2-4, 2 R, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K
- C Jason Lopez: 0-5, 3 K
- RHP Frank German: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 5 K, 2 WP, 4/3 GB/FB — 44 of 80 pitches were strikes (55%)
Low-A Charleston RiverDogs (7-1 loss to Kannapolis)
- CF Brandon Lockridge: 1-4, 2 K
- C Gary Sanchez: 0-3, 2 PB — caught five innings as scheduled … those are his first two passed balls of the season (catching an unfamiliar pitcher can’t be easy) … he’s going to join the Yankees tomorrow and be activated Wednesday
- RF Josh Stowers: 1-4, 1 K, 1 SB
- DH Josh Breaux: 2-4, 2 K
- 2B Wilkerman Garcia: 1-4 — first game of the season … not sure if he was in Extended Spring Training because of an injury or because the Yankees wanted him there to work on things
- LF Canaan Smith: 1-4, 2 K
- RHP Alex Vizcaino: 4.2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR, 2 WP, 2 HB, 7/1 GB/FB — 54 of 94 pitches were strikes (57%) … Sauer’s injury likely means this rotation spot is Vizcaino’s for the foreseeable future
The Short Season Staten Island Yankees, Rookie Pulaski Yankees, and two Rookie Gulf Coast League Yankees teams begin play in June.