Yankees Week In Review
By: Matthew Brindisi
Tags: Yankees, Gary Sanchez, MLB

It seems as if the Yankees may have checked out a tad early towards the end of this past road trip. The lineups the Yankees rolled out were less than ideal in Arizona and they ended up finishing 6–3 on the west coast. The Yanks went back home for a series win over the Twins. It’s always good to see the Twins coming to town after a couple losses. Regardless of how good the Twins get, they always falter against the Yankees. Ron Gardenhire still wakes up with night sweats thinking about playing this team.

There was more of the same injury roller coaster this week. As soon as we heard some updates from the good news bear about Andujar and Clint, Paxton went down. I would like a world where I don’t have to replace someone coming back from the DL with another big injury. The early reports on Paxton are that it is going to be a max of 3 weeks which will probably add up to 3 starts.

I‘ve been pretty skeptical of timetables lately but when you throw out the word “max” you better be right. Looking at you CashGawd. Look at all that other news too! Stanton, Hicks, and even Didi’s return is on the horizon. Are we going to see Didi before we see Tulo? I don’t know. I’m not a doctor but Tulo seems real big on aggravating injuries. We saw Greg Bird in the dugout and the Yankees didn’t lose so he’s not all bad luck. Baby steps.

Right at this moment Paul O’Neill said “Hey there’s another IL fella”. Never change, warrior. And immediately after that Mike Tauchman bought himself another week in the lineup with a home run. For the people saying we need to apologize to Mikey T, he’s still batting under .200 so we let’s hold the apologies until he gets above Brendan Ryan numbers. Pineda seemed like he wanted Tauchman to hit a homer. He just kept feeding him meatball after meatball and was subsequently shocked after it went over the wall.

Our young son Miggy Andujar came back this weekend and we are going to give him a few chances at 3rd right? Not just jump down his throat and call for Gio Urshela. Nope, he made a couple errors and everyone went nuts. Albeit they were pretty terrible. I am not saying that Andujar doesn’t need work because he absolutely does but in the same breath he definitely needs a longer leash than one game. He’s coming off more than a month on the shelf and he has a slightly torn labrum. Granted if this continues they’ll have to figure something else out. But let’s look on the bright side, he is always going to hit. It’s awesome to have him back in the lineup.

Look at my guys! Boone said it last year about Andujar “He’s one of those guys that warms the room,” Boone went on and said. “He’s one of those guys I really look forward to seeing every day because he puts a smile on my face.”

If he doesn’t boost clubhouse morale, I don’t know who will. (Didi. Definitely Didi)

Another return from injury today is the wildling, everyone’s collective boy, Clint Frazier. Mikey T is staying up and Tarpley is going down. That’s fine with me as long as Clint gets in there everyday. I think he has proved enough but it would be nice to see him get rolling again with Hicks and Stanton returns just around the corner.

Luke Voit and Gary Sanchez are carrying this team for the moment. Voit just snapped his 42 game on base streak. I definitely down played it but he has been a force in the lineup. I’m also glad that it’s over so it doesn’t hang over his head. I’m sure Michael Kay will say verbatim “Now up, Luke Voit who just had his FORTY TWO game on base streak snapped. The first pitch, called for a strike” He will mention that for at least a week.

Gare Bear hit a single on Sunday and I’m worried. It wasn’t 110 mph off the bat and didn’t go 400 feet. Here’s a home run from Saturday though.

Here’s another.