The Yankees didn’t have the month they’d dreamed of in May but given their extensive injuries (particular to starting pitchers) and continuing power hitting woes, it was about as good as it could have been. They came out of the month with a .500 record (14 wins, 14 losses) which kept them in contention for the wild card whilst letting Toronto open up a lead at the head of the American League East.
More injury problems for the Yankees. Carlos Beltran, who had been listed as day-to-day, went to the 15-day disabled list.
The Yankees lost Shawn Kelley to the disabled list, to add to their pitching woes. He is suffering with stiffness in his back and will be unavailable until the 28th of May at the earliest.
They do say that bad luck comes in threes and the Yankees have now lost three of their starting pitchers for the next few weeks.
Turning to the second part of our April survey, we find that the success of the pitching might have turned on a necessity of Tommy John surgery and a large glob of pine tar on someone’s neck………
Well, here we are a month into the new baseball season and time to begin our run of monthly surveys of the New York Yankees. We will be taking a slightly different approach this season. Anyway here goes with the batters and their performance in April:
I’m not really planning on daily updates in this column but the Yankees are going through quite a few changes at the moment.
I’m writing this on Wednesday morning, April 8th, as the Yankees have just taken possession of the lead in the American League East, for the first time this season, following their win in their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles.
There are 3 changes to jersey numbers on the major league squad from those that were worn in Spring Training. The other numbers can be seen on the March updates.
It’s funny how things work out. The last day of Yankees’ Spring Training schedule – a game against the Miami Marlins – was rained out.
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