The Yankees continue to hemorrhage stars as Mark Teixeira will be out eight to ten weeks due to his wrist injury:
Teixeira was evaluated on Wednesday by team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad and specialist Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser. Teixeira has been advised to have four weeks of complete rest in New York and will not rejoin the Yankees in Florida this spring.
“It’s not what you want, but it’s what you’ve got to deal with,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “It’s life.”
Teixeira was diagnosed with an ECU tendon sprain, which is a similar injury to the one that Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista suffered last season at Yankee Stadium. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that surgery will not be required.
The Yankees are without their stars at third, first, and center. Their shortstop is coming off a serious ankle break. They look pretty week at catcher. The pitching is going to have to be very good.
Classic case of “if the Yankees didn’t have bad luck they’d have no luck at all.”
Texeira should never have been allowed to play in the WBC in the first place. The Yankees look like they’re being run by a clown right now.
Somehow, I can’t worry too much about the poor Yankees. They’ll just go out and buy some more players, and they’ll be fine.
Jeff A » What is interesting about the whole situation is that the Yankees are getting hit with the perfect storm of austerity and injury. The plan was not to spend a lot of money for a couple of years to get back to a low luxury tax rate. They figured that owned enough talent to make them competitive. Now that talent is disappearing, and they don’t want to spend the money to replace it. Even Cashman is walking around on a broken leg!
Even the Yankees go through down periods. The luxury tax was designed to take them down a notch, it just took a decade to work. Now, it’s hitting them with a vengeance.
Fortunately we have Cash’s minor league system as a safety net. (Never mind)
The problem is magnified because they suffered significant downgrades at RF, C and maybe DH and Jeter is a big question mark, as is Youk at 3B and they have no high level prospects ready to step up.
Year they went into ST with little depth hoping against hope they would be healthy.
With Hughes ailing and geriatrics like Kuroda and Pettitte, I don’t much like their SP depth either.
Right now the Yankees are my front runner for last place in the AL East.
In the meantime, they should move Youk to 1b, Jeter to 3b and Nunez at SS. That probably won’t happen and the Captain will be a statue at SS and set UZR record for lowest UZR/150 with that bad ankle, and Youk will struggle to stay healthy at 3b, while they run out a replacement level 1bman.
The Yankees never cared much about the luxury tax alone, which cost them 15-20 million. However with the revenue sharing rebates tied in with the luxury tax savings required to get the rebates and the reduced payroll which avoids the tax the Yankees got greedy over a measly 60-80 million dollars in potential savings.
Should be a lot of empty seats and lost revenue dollars as a result of their greed which may change their mind about their approach in 2014, but they may be too far gone for a good offseason to reverse course unless some prospects get developed.