Mark Teixeira has pulled out of the World Baseball Classic and is on his way back to New York.
The Yankees announced that Teixeira has a right wrist strain. He will be evaluated in New York tomorrow and will be seeing Yankees’ team physician Dr. Chris Ahmad along with Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser.
He suffered the injury while hitting a ball of a tee during earlier today during practice prior to Team U.S.A.’s scheduled exhibition game with the Chicago White Sox. X-Rays were taken right away and were negative. The Yankees said Teixeira will have more tests tomorrow.
Teixeira joins a growing list of Yankee players who are making their way back from injuries this Spring. CC Sabathia, Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter are all coming back from offseason surgeries, Phil Hughes is battling a bulging disc in his back and Curtis Granderson is out until at least May with a fractured forearm.
New york (AARP)yankees is coming from spring trainning , will see after April first. Forget this team.
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Best-case scenario: Teixiera misses the first week or two of the season, Dan Johnson holds down first during that time, big deal, Johnson has power (56 HR in 1551 career PA including 3 HR in 31 PA last season.) I could live with Johnson for a week or two.
Worst-case scenario: Teixiera is out 'til mid-May or later and the Yanks get a long look at Johnson at 1B unless they trade for someone.
Forget Youkilis holding down 1B because then who's at 3B, Nix? Who backs up Nix, Nunez who sucks in the field? If Youkilis holds down 1B, David Adams should be the 3B until Teixiera returns and if Adams hits well enough, he stays at 3B, Youkilis backs up at 1B and 3B and shares DH with Hafner, too bad if they don't like it. Forget Nix at 3B because he can't hit his way out of a paper bag and the Yanks might as well start an unknown quantity at 3B in Adams. Also Adams needs to play every day so I say let him do that and Nix do what he does best: back up. Forget Juan Rivera at 1B, too, as he is not as experienced at 1B as Johnson or Youkilis and they'll need him to platoon in RF with Diaz.
C – Cervelli
1B – Johnson
LF – Suzuki
RF – Rivera / Diaz
NO PANIC TRADE.
I thought he was out only 2 weeks? I'm not concerned though, these guys are all veterans and know what to do when the games count.
Yeah – they're all veterans. Of course, they're also such excellent ballplayers that the Yankees were able to pick them up for a couple beers and a bag of chips. Pretty sure all of these excellent veterans were let go by their previous teams.
2013 is NOT shaping up to be a good year. Sorry. Hoping I'm wrong, betting I'm right.
And I don't bet.
Why do people keep saying Nunez sucks in the field? He doesn't suck in the field. He is very good in the field. He sucks at throwing the ball anywhere and it turns into a "Steve Sax" problem. If he could get reps at 1b he might be a viable option.