New York Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes reacts after striking out swinging with two runners on base, next to New York Yankees catcher Austin Romine during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, in New York.
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Sandy Alderson called it “bad optics” that Yoenis Cespedes played a round of golf hours before landing on the disabled list with a lingering right quadriceps injury.
An MRI revealed Cespedes did no further damage by playing through the injury, but Alderson acknowledged the team likely made a mistake by not sidelining him quicker after he suffered the injury July 8.
The 41-year-old Rodriguez wasn’t in the lineup Thursday night at Yankee Stadium for the wrapup of the Subway Series. “I don’t care about perception”.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi repeated that he’s not sure when A-Rod would be playing, but mentioned Rodriguez’s struggles against right-handers and that his success agianst Colon was not recent as reasons for keeping him on the bench tonight.
The Mets recalled outfielder Brandon Nimmo from Triple-A Las Vegas to fill Cespedes’ roster spot. I got a nice little knot in there, ” said Teixeira, who will recieve treatment today. Severino tossed 4.1 innings of sharp relief on Wednesday night, giving up just one uneaarned run and earning the win. “But that message will get to him, at least circuitously, and probably directly”.
NEW YORK (AP) – Alex Rodriguez is back on the Yankees’ bench despite whopping career numbers against Mets starter Bartolo Colon, and it’s not certain when the slumping slugger will play again.
Alderson has reached out to Cespedes’ representatives to discuss his golfing habits, but the larger issue is how the Mets will try to stay afloat without their best player. Collins said the team wanted to let the injury “quiet down” before resuming baseball activities.
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“In retrospect, probably we should have just put him on the DL at the beginning of this episode, which is generally true with most injuries, unfortunately”, Alderson said. “Hopefully at the end of two weeks he’ll be back and hopefully 100 percent or close to it”.
