Yankees lose reliever to IL, another headed for MRI
Another reliever is injured.
Five days after taking a liner off his pitching arm, left-hander Brent Headrick was placed on the 15-day injured list with a forearm contusion.
Headrick was injured in the ninth inning last Wednesday when Twins infielder Brooks Lee hit a 93.2 mph liner off Headrick's left forearm.
Headrick finished the inning and didn't allow any runs in the Yankees' 4-1 loss, but didn't pitch this past weekend when the Yankees swept three from the Cardinals in St. Louis.
'He had CT scans and X-rays. All negative, but he's still not quite right,' Boone said of Headrick, whose IL stint was backdated to Thursday.
The news that Headrick needed an IL stint occurred so late Tuesday afternoon that the Yankees had to play a man short in Tuesday night's series opener against the Rays.
They'll add call up a reliever on Wednesday, then possibly activate Fernando Cruz, who has been on the IL with a left oblique strain since June 30 (backdated to June 28).
The Yankees wanted Cruz to pitch a third rehab outing on Tuesday before thinking about taking him off the IL.
Veteran reliever Jonathan Loaisiga, on the IL since Aug. 2 with back tightness, would have been a candidate to replace Headrick if he hadn't reported soreness in his throwing elbow and triceps Tuesday morning.
The right-hander began a rehab assignment last Sunday by working a scoreless outing in a Triple-A game. Hurt a lot throughout his career, Loaisiga returned in May from April 2024 right UCL surgery.
Loaisiga will get an MRI to find out the severity of his latest arm issue.
'It's been an up and down season for him as he returns, but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself,' Boone said of Loaisiga. 'I just got the report this morning that he had some soreness.'
Loaisiga, 30, is 0-1 with a 4.25 ERA in 30 games this season. For his career, he has a 3.54 ERA over eight seasons, all with the Yankees from 2018-25.
The Yankees are optimistic that Headrick will miss the minimum amount of time on his IL stint. He's pitched to a 3.13 ERA for the Yankees in 17 outings over three stints.
Candidates to get a recall from Triple-A on Wednesday include three bullpen arms who are in the Yankees' 40-man roster: right-handers Scott Effross and Ian Hamilton, and lefty Jayvien Sandridge.
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