A couple quick roster notes to get us started:
- SS Kyle Holder has been activated off the Double-A Trenton disabled list and sent down to Low-A Charleston, the team announced. I have to think the Charleston assignment is temporary. Holder suffered a fractured vertebrae in Spring Training and has been out since. Sounds scary, but if he’s already back playing, it couldn’t have been that bad.
- The Yankees have released both 1B Dalton Blaser and RHP Luis Cedeno, the team announced. Blaser was the team’s eighth round pick in 2016. Cedeno’s been a lower level organizational arm for a few years now.
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (10-3 loss to Syracuse)
- CF Tyler Wade: 2-3, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 BB, 1 K — here’s video of the triple
- LF Clint Frazier: 0-4, 1 K
- 3B Brandon Drury: 0-2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 E (fielding)
- DH Mike Ford: 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 K — here’s video of the homer
- C Kyle Higashioka: 1-3, 1 3B, 1 BB — second triple of his career!
- RF Billy McKinney: 0-4, 1 K
- RHP David Hale: 4.1 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 7/4 GB/FB — 48 of 70 pitches were strikes (69%) … I wonder if the Yankees will call him up to make a spot start at some point during this 14 games in 13 days stretch … at least for the doubleheader in Detroit, right?
- LHP Nestor Cortes: 2 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3/2 GB/FB — 31 of 53 pitches were strikes (59%) … 23 runs in 28.2 innings since coming back as a Rule 5 Draft pick … he allowed 25 runs in 106 innings in 2016 and 29 runs in 104.2 innings in 2017
- RHP Brady Lail: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 3/0 GB/FB — 11 of 24 pitches were strikes (46%)