It is clear as day that the New York Yankees are aiming towards working on their future by trading away many of their older players and picking up the future.
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Nimmo was sent down Tuesday when All-Star right fielder Jay Bruce reported to the Mets, a day after he was acquired from Cincinnati.
In 21 games since the quad injury, Cespedes has hit only.227 with one home run and seven RBI’s.
Rays 3, Royals 2: Brad Miller hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning to help Tampa Bay beat Kansas City for a series split.
The Reds received two minor-leaguers in the trade: infielder Dilson Herrera and left-hander Max Wotell. Jerry Blevins replaced Colon with two down, and Aaron Hicks plated the Yanks’ first run with a single to center.
After Curtis Granderson reached on a double one out later, Eovaldi (9-8) exacerbated his troubles by attempting and failing to nail Granderson going back to the bag on Alejandro De Aza’s comebacker. Just because of who he is and what he’s done so far, there’s going to be a lot of attention on him as we go forward and I just want him to play his game. “He’s got a knack when he’s out there of what he’s gotta do to get outs”, said Mets manager Terry Collins.
Cespedes was put on the disabled list on Wednesday due to a quadricep injury. The class they always display, not only to the Yankee brass, but to the Yankee fans that go there at this time of year, I find incredible and all stadiums, around the league, can learn from these people.
Alex Rodriguez sports some monstrous career statistics against Mets starter Bartolo Colon, but the Yankees’ aging slugger – benched again Thursday night – couldn’t do any damage from a dugout seat. A-Rod is in a 2-for-28 rut, is hitting.204 and has started once since July 22.
“Those are numbers from years and years ago”, Girardi said, pointing out they haven’t faced each other since 2012.
With Rodriguez out of action on Thursday, Colon pitched into the seventh inning, yielding just one earned run in a 4-1 win over the Yankees.
The Mets, who have the lowest batting average in the National League, lost for the sixth time in eight games and dropped 8 1/2 games behind NL East-leading Washington and two games back for the league’s second wild card.
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Severino said he had worked with pitching coach Larry Rothschild to prevent tipping off hitters to his fastball, which was occurring when Severino rocked his head back. The Yankees also optioned RHP Chad Green to Scranton/Wilkes Barre and recalled RHP Johnny Barbato from the Triple-A club.
