{"id":684911,"date":"2026-04-28T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/684911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:48:30","slug":"yankees-news-giancarlo-stanton-to-the-il-with-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/684911\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Giancarlo Stanton to the IL with calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB Trade Rumors | Anthony Franco<\/a>: The Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> Calf Saga is essentially at the conclusion that always seemed most likely. The Yankees had the roster flexibility to wait and see how Stanton\u2019s tight calf responded to a couple days of rest after he was pulled<\/a> from their game on Friday in Houston<\/a>, but they did have him undergo an MRI. They got the results last night, and he will now hit the IL with a \u201clow grade\u201d strain \u2014 not dire, but enough that they knew they couldn\u2019t keep burning a roster spot.<\/p>\n

Following Luis Gil<\/a>\u2019s Sunday night demotion, Jasson Dom\u00ednguez<\/a> had just been promoted yesterday to get some reps against the Rangers with Stanton unavailable. Now, they\u2019ll be able to call up a pitcher to take an extra bullpen spot, as they won\u2019t need a fifth starter until May 5th. Triple-A relievers Yerry De los Santos<\/a> and Kervin Castro<\/a> are the most likely possible options for the \u2019pen since they hold 40-man roster spots, though Yovanny Cruz is also a possibility.<\/p>\n

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New York Daily News | Gary Phillips<\/a>: Both Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a> have begun their rehab assignments, with the potential top two in the rotation due to return to the big-league roster soon enough. However, preventative care with both pitchers will be needed, and Cam Schlittler<\/a> is also still in his first full MLB season. There\u2019s therefore been some talk about how the club will manage all those concurrent needs, though it seems unlikely that a six-man rotation will be entertained. Matt Blake himself quashed speculation yesterday by pointing out that an extra man in the rotation leaves the bullpen a man short, and that seems outside the bounds of the Yankees\u2019 risk profile.<\/p>\n

NJ.com | Randy Miller<\/a>: Once again, the Yankees boast a top-five offense in the game, and once again nobody walks more than the Bronx Strollers. A league-high 12.6 percent BB rate means there\u2019s often a great deal of traffic for Yankee hitters, and that approach has been a hallmark of Aaron Boone\u2019s time as manager. There have been instances this season where I feel the Yankees have been a little too passive however, and while a .197 ISO also paces the league, it\u2019s a couple of ticks lower than last year\u2019s mark, and might indicate that the club is leaving runs on the table by just walking.<\/p>\n

MLB.com | Bryan Hoch<\/a>: After a brutal start to the season, Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/a> seems to finally be returning to his baseline. The Yankee second baseman has had back-to-back strong series against the Red Sox<\/a> and Astros \u2014 ABS challenges aside but more on that later today \u2014 after getting an extra day off against the Royals two weeks ago. Jazz<\/a> used that time to reset some mechanical issues and move slightly back in the box, two tweaks that he\u2019s credited with helping him get off better swings.<\/p>\n

New York Post | Brooke Steinberg<\/a>: One of the downsides of being arguably the most famous sports team in the world is apparently that a whole lot of people express their fandom through their passwords. A recent study shows literally millions of Yankee-related passwords have been leaked online, reminding even baseball fans to come up with stronger, more creative roadblocks for their personal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB Trade Rumors | Anthony Franco: The Giancarlo Stanton Calf Saga is essentially at the conclusion that always…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,20455,2004,11200,2281,310,139,3289,16100,1363,58674,56,2277,4,1690,62,2548,2547,483,89,5000,142,4509],"class_list":["post-684911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-baseball","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-gary-phillips","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-houston","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","tag-kervin-castro","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-luis-gil","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-ny","tag-red-sox","tag-yankee-stadium","tag-yankees","tag-yerry-de-los-santos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116481943378463547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684911","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=684911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}