{"id":687067,"date":"2026-04-30T23:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687067\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:15:15","slug":"yankees-roster-moves-cole-rodon-take-next-steps-in-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687067\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Roster Moves: Cole, Rodon Take Next Steps In Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Yankees announced a number of roster moves and notable developments on their roster over the past two days, including a positive update on ace Gerrit Cole.<\/p>\n

The Yanks confirmed<\/a> Wednesday that Cole is moving from High-A to Double-A in his rehab assignment, continuing to progress in his return from Tommy John surgery, which forced him to miss the entire 2025 season. The Yankees are targeting a May or June return for Cole, who last pitched for the Yankees in Game 5 of the 2024 World Series on Oct. 30, 2024.<\/p>\n

Despite missing their top starting pitcher, the Yankees have the league’s best team ERA anyway, at 3.11 entering Thursday. Key to their success has been baseball’s second-best strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.15).<\/p>\n

In addition to Cole, Carlos Rodon is making progress in his own injury recovery. The Yankees announced<\/a> Thursday that they’re transferring Rodon from High-A Hudson Valley to Double-A Somerset. Rodon is recovering from October surgery to remove bone spurs in his throwing elbow.<\/p>\n

The Yankees also announced Wednesday that veteran outfielder Randal Grichuk was designated for assignment. Grichuk had posted a .535 OPS in 31 at-bats over 16 games for New York in the early-going of the 2026 season. And that’s despite displaying some pop, as he’s on track to record the second-highest hard-hit percentage of his career (54.5%).<\/p>\n

To take Grichuk’s spot on the roster, the Yankees called up pitcher Elmer Rodriguez from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees announced a number of roster moves and notable developments on their roster over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,2004,61486,2281,4,1690,62,2548,2547,1448,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-687067","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-carlos-rodon","10":"tag-elmer-rodriguez","11":"tag-gerrit-cole","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkyankees","17":"tag-randal-grichuk","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116496205325030385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687067","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=687067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}