5 Yankees on roster bubble who aren’t helping their cause, including Miguel Andujar, Mike Ford, Jhoulys Chacin
Updated Mar 13, 2021;
Posted Mar 13, 2021
Yankees who aren’t taking advantage of their spring training opportunity include (clockwise from top left) Miguel Andujar, Mike Ford, Jhoulys Chacin, Asher Wojciechowski and Albert Abreu.
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There are spring training surprises for most every team most every year, and we’ve already seen that in Yankees camp with lefty journeyman Lucas Luetge contending for a bullpen spot as a non-roster journeyman who hasn’t pitched in the big leagues since 2015.
All the while, inevitably there are disappointing showings for roster hopefuls, and the Yankees have that area covered, too.
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Just after the start of the Yankees’ exhibition game against the Tigers on Friday, the team announced a number of moves to cut down their roster. It’s the first time this spring that the Yankees have made a big batch of changes to give fans a better idea of who might make the club on Opening Day.
Reliever Adam Warren was likely the most prominent roster contender demoted to minor league camp. He had been a non-roster invitee and appeared to be healthy after recovering from Tommy John surgery in the past year and a half, but despite throwing three scoreless innings across three games in spring training, the Yankees seemingly did not think that his repertoire was MLB-caliber at this point. Barring a rash of bullpen injuries, he’ll have to work his way back into the team’s good graces at the alternate site in April.
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March 11, 2021
Despite an atypically mediocre performance from their bullpen last year, the Yankees project to have the strongest relief corps in 2021 according to our forecasting systems. However, their chances of fulfilling that expectation have taken a hit with the news that Zack Britton, the team’s top setup man, will undergo arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone chip in his left elbow. The 33-year-old lefty could be out until mid-June or later.
Britton had already been slowed this spring by a bout of COVID-19, which he contracted in January while going to the hospital when his wife was giving birth to the couple’s fourth child. He told reporters that he lost 18 pounds and had been set back in his offseason throwing regimen. After experiencing elbow soreness in the wake of a bullpen session on Sunday, he underwent an MRI on Monday that showed the chip.
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