The Yankees played a man short Saturday night against the Astros at Yankee Stadium, when outfielder Cameron Maybin was unavailable with a Grade 2 strained left calf that will land him on the injured list Sunday.
The Yankees went to 12 pitchers the day before Aaron Judge came off the IL on Friday night, which is one less than they like to carry. So they will replace Maybin with a pitcher, but wanted to wait to determine who.
“We are going to wait [and see] where we are at based on where we are through [Saturday’ s game],’’ manager Aaron Boone said before his club put a seven-game winning streak on the line. “We will see what our needs are going into [Sunday].’’
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre right-handed reliever Joe Harvey is a candidate. Harvey last pitched an inning on Friday night for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Chance Adams, was scheduled to start for SWB on Saturday night but was scratched, so he could be promoted to work out of the bullpen.
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Boone speculated Maybin, who suffered the injury Friday night playing left field and left the game after scoring on Gary Sanchez’s home run in the third inning of a 4-1 Yankees victory, could be out for six weeks but admitted, “I don’t want to [give] an exact [time], but it will be a pretty fair amount of time.’’
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Losing Maybin will hurt the Yankees because he filled in very well after being acquired from the Nationals organization. In 42 games, the right-handed hitting Maybin batted .314 with five homers, 14 RBIs and a .391 on-base percentage.
Had the Yankees wanted to replace Maybin with an outfielder, their choices were Mike Tauchman and Clint Frazier, but that doesn’t seem to be the way they will go.
Maybin is the fifth Yankee this season to miss time with a calf injury.
Aaron Hicks got the start Saturday after dealing with a right-shoulder issue that required a cortisone shot Thursday. He replaced Maybin in the fourth inning Friday.
“I feel good, shoulder feels good. Better than it was [Thursday]. I think it was the shot and now it’s gone,’’ Hicks said.
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