{"id":733653,"date":"2026-06-23T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:03:29","slug":"yankees-recall-catcher-j-c-ecarra-with-ali-sanchez-on-paternity-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733653\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees recall catcher J.C. Ecarra with Ali S\u00e1nchez on paternity list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Yankees\u2019 catching carousel keeps moving along, as only days after getting sent down to Triple-A, J.C. Escarra is once again back with the big-league club to replace Ali S\u00e1nchez, who was placed on the paternity list. This move comes a day after S\u00e1nchez had to leave early in a game against the Tigers, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fvideo%2Fali-sanchez-exits-with-injury-vs-tigers%3Fq%3Dali%2520sanchez%26cp%3DCMS_FIRST%26qt%3DFREETEXT%26p%3D0\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having been hit on the wrist<\/a> by a four-seam fastball, something we don\u2019t recommend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">S\u00e1nchez, who was starting against the left-hander Framber Valdez, was replaced midgame by Austin Wells, who will once again share the catching duties with Escarra, leaving the Yankees currently without a right-handed catching option on the roster. While an X-ray was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/fantasy\/baseball\/player-news\/2026-06-22\/ali-sanchez-wrist-x-rays-come-back-negative\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">negative<\/a>, according to New York Post reporter Greg Joyce, we still await news on a potential CT scan to fully determine the extent of the damage done by this HBP &#8212; particularly, whether S\u00e1nchez will indeed require an IL stint. In the short term, S\u00e1nchez\u2019s wife was expecting anyway, so the roster logistics allow him to go on the paternity list as they welcome a new baby into the world. The Yankees can work out any IL details at a later time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After right-hander Casey Mize toes the rubber tonight, the Yankees will seemingly face not one, not two, not three, but four consecutive southpaw starters, beginning with the greatest that MLB currently has to offer in Tarik Skubal. If Boston follows its current rotation, then Connelly Early, Payton Tolle, and Jake Bennett will pitch their first three games this weekend. In fact, New York will face Skubal twice in this short period with multiple series against the Tigers, and being obligated to start a lefty catcher at all times is not ideal. So it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees\u2019 catching carousel keeps moving along, as only days after getting sent down to Triple-A, J.C. Escarra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142,4675,3881],"class_list":["post-733653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-yankees","tag-yankees-roster","tag-yankees-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116800743269620210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733653","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=733653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}