{"id":656600,"date":"2026-04-01T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:58:22","slug":"yankees-news-carlos-rodon-reports-hamstring-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656600\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Carlos Rod\u00f3n reports hamstring tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/articles\/yankees-carlos-rodon-hamstring-injury-update-3-31-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNY | Phillip Mart\u00ednez<\/a>: The Yankees hoped to have left-hander Carlos Rodon back at some point in April, but those plans might have hit a snag. On Tuesday, manager Aaron Boone revealed that the southpaw, who had a 3.09 ERA and struck out 203 batters last year before encountering some elbow issues in the postseason that resulted in surgery, reported hamstring tightness in his most recent throwing session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The team is unsure about the severity of the ailment, and making guesses about how long he will be sidelined would be premature. What we do know is that an April return is now unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/31\/reverse-framing-why-yankees-catching-director-receivers-arent-into-abs-mind-games\/?share=ictrhwet0nvwainryrca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Daily News | Gary Phillips<\/a>: The \u2018reverse framing\u2019 strategy, believe it or not, might become a thing as we go deeper into the ABS era. The term basically means that catchers can make strikes look like balls as they try to lure opposing teams into wasting a challenge. The Yankees, as an organization, are excellent framers behind the plate, but Tanner Swanson, the team\u2019s director of catching, doesn\u2019t seem so open about trying psychological games just yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Swanson did say that he has \u201cthought about these things, and we\u2019ve had discussions around them,\u201d but he isn\u2019t quite ready for the risk that the strategy carries with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cA large majority of borderline calls still go unchallenged,\u201d Swanson said. \u201cTo take a strike and try to turn it into a ball, you\u2019re banking on either forcing the hitter to challenge it, or having to challenge it yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nyyankeesstats\/status\/2039159480542208366\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Yankees Stats on X<\/a>: Giancarlo Stanton drove in a run in the first inning of Tuesday\u2019s game in Seattle in the ugliest way you can think of: with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YESNetwork\/status\/2039160969083928895\" rel=\"nofollow\">a blooper near the right field line<\/a>. It counts anyway, and it was the slugger\u2019s 500th RBI in pinstripes. He became the seventh-fastest Yankee, in terms of games played, to reach the mark: it took him 745 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FoulTerritoryTV\/status\/2039048833330778378\" rel=\"nofollow\">Foul Territory on X<\/a>: Former MLB general manager Jim Bowden, now an analyst and writer, weighed in on the alleged trade proposal the Yankees made to the Pittsburgh Pirates last year involving Paul Skenes. He said that if the Bombers indeed put names such as Cam Schlittler, George Lombard Jr., Carlos Lagrange, and Spencer Jones on the table, the Bucs should have taken the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf I\u2019m Pittsburgh and I got offered those four guys that I could control for six years and not have to pay any of them for three years, I have a better chance of winning with those four guys, and I have a better chance of winning longer with those four guys,\u201d Bowden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SNY | Phillip Mart\u00ednez: The Yankees hoped to have left-hander Carlos Rodon back at some point in April,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142,3881],"class_list":{"0":"post-656600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-yankees","15":"tag-yankees-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116329572402534381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}