{"id":699906,"date":"2026-05-15T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699906\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:15:13","slug":"yankees-place-max-fried-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699906\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Place Max Fried On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees have placed lefty Max Fried<\/a> on the 15-day IL due to a bone bruise in his left elbow, the team announced. An exact timetable isn\u2019t clear, but it\u2019ll be more than a minimum stint. Fried will be reevaluated \u201cin a few weeks,\u201d and only then will the Yankees determine when he can resume throwing. His MRI will also be reviewed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in the coming days. For now, the Yankees made no mention of structural damage or anything pertaining to Fried\u2019s ulnar collateral ligament. Fried himself tells reporters that he does not think surgery will be necessary for his current issue (link via Joel Sherman of the New York Post<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Fried exited his most recent start (Wednesday) after just three innings. The Yankees announced at the time that he was dealing with posterior soreness in his left elbow, prompting concern about a potential major injury. The bone bruise isn\u2019t a best-case scenario but certainly isn\u2019t worst-case either.<\/p>\n

Losing Fried for any period of time \u2014 and this, as mentioned, seems very likely to be more than the minimum \u2014 is a major hit for the Yankees. The severity of the blow is lessened, to an extent, by the looming return of Gerrit Cole<\/a>, but the Yankees\u2019 vision of a Cole-Fried tandem leading the rotation still has not come to fruition since signing Fried to an eight-year, $218MM contract in Dec. 2024. Cole\u2019s elbow blew out during spring training 2025, costing him the entire season. The Yankees have still yet to have both aces on the active roster at the same time. Cole likely has at least one more minor league rehab start to go before he\u2019s ready to return.<\/p>\n

Fried, 32, is out to yet another terrific start. He\u2019s given the Yankees 61 2\/3 innings with a 3.21 ERA, a 20.8% strikeout rate, a 7.9% walk rate and a 48.8% ground-ball rate so far. His debut campaign in the Bronx produced a 2.86 earned run average over the life of 195 1\/3 frames.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s exactly the sort of production for which the Yankees were hoping when signing Fried to a contract that still stands as the fourth-largest ever given to a pure pitcher (fifth-largest, if we include two-way star Shohei Ohtani<\/a>). Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a>, Cole and Stephen Strasburg<\/a> are the only pitchers to ever command a larger guarantee than Fried\u2019s $218MM, whether via extension or free agency.<\/p>\n

With Fried headed to the IL alongside Cole (at least in the short term), the Yankees\u2019 rotation includes four locks: Cam Schlittler<\/a>, Carlos Rodon<\/a>, Will Warren<\/a> and Ryan Weathers<\/a>. They could plug long relievers Paul Blackburn<\/a> or Ryan Yarbrough<\/a> into the rotation for a turn or two, and prospect Elmer Rodriguez<\/a> has already come up to the majors for his debut this year, so he\u2019s another candidate to pick up some innings. Righty Luis Gil<\/a> was optioned earlier this season but is on the minor league injured list due to right shoulder inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have placed lefty Max Fried on the 15-day IL due to a bone bruise in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,108],"class_list":["post-699906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-max-fried"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116580668441448525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699906","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=699906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}