Injury updates: Teixeira, Robertson, Garcia
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Mar 05, 2013 
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Mark Teixeira
Brian Cashman made it clear that there’s some significant concern about Teixeira’s wrist. Cashman said he hasn’t spoken to Teixeira, but Cashman was told that Teixeira felt a “pop.” An MRI revealed a strain of the right wrist, and he’s expected to miss at least 10 days. He will be further evaluated in New York tomorrow.
“I’m obviously worried about it,” Cashman said. “Wrists are very unpredictable. Even if you can get a positive diagnosis back — which of course we’re going to hope for — that still doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods, because wrists are tricky. They’re hard to get a handle on. I’m concerned about it, to be honest. This could be something where, even if it plays out as not serious, it could play out longer than anybody would want.”
Dave Robertson
Scheduled to pitch today, Robertson was scratched when his shoulder had trouble getting loose in the bullpen. Joe Girardi said he’s heard Robertson slept funny and it might be nothing more serious than that. No tests are planned.
“We’ll see how he feels tomorrow,” Cashman said. “That one, right now, is low-level concern. Just more of a precautionary, get to the showers, we’ll see how it feels tomorrow.”
Adonis Garcia
The minor league outfielder broke the hamate bone of his left wrist during batting practice on Sunday. He’ll have surgery on Thursday and is expected to miss six to eight weeks.
Here are some up close and personal observations from tonight’s snooze-athon at GMS Field:
-Corban Joseph has no future in a major league infield, he is awful out there.
-Nunez is throwing the ball much better (shorter, more compact motion) than in previous years, the relay on the DP was very good tonight.
-Montgomery was not good tonight, I didn’t see anything that looked like a plus slider and he was missing the glove by a mile on most of his pitches.
-Gardner looks locked in at the plate, Ichiro looks pretty good as well-his double was ripped
-Stewart made just a horrible throw to second, it looked like the ball parachuted out to Nix about 6? wide of second.
-Phelps wasn’t very good in the 1st couple of innings but threw better as the game went along. The Braves brought most of the regulars so he was facing some good hitters.
-I didn’t think Chamberlain threw the ball all that well but that’s just my observation.
GMS Field is really great, parking was easy in and out and it’s a good place to watch a ballgame-we were in the last row right behind home plate in the 2nd deck, about 15? from the Yankees radio booth, I was waiting for Suzyn Waldman to start screaming something but went home disappointed.
I wouldn’t put too much stock on how young pitchers look in preseason, particularly minor leaguers trying to make impressions in preseason. What they do during the regular season will matter. Not now.
Looks like Tex found his ready made excuse for 2013.
Like I said earlier, I hope either we find out Tex needs surgery and is out or it’s nothing at all. He’s show to be a very high maintenance player who if one thing is off or lingering it affects his overall performance. A lingering wrist thing will give us a player at 1b and in the middle of our order who is more ineffective than he already has become vs. RHP.
If he is out for a long period of time, the team needs to make a move. The middle of the order is Robbie Cano and nothing else without Grandy and Tex in it.
And I’m not saying “I told you so” but to approach a season with no depth like this because they didn’t want to give out multi-year deals to good solid players courts this kind of stuff.
I truly hope it’s nothing and Tex just needs a few days off. If he’s shut down for 2 weeks I think it’s a lot more serious than this team can presently handle and expect to win.
With all that is going on the Yankees have to load there .300 hitters together. Gardner, Jeter, Ichiro, Cano. Prob L,R,L,R knowing Joe. No-one else might crack .250.
The only good thing with all the injuries happening this early is that the Yankees will definitely make a move before the end Spring Training to get some depth, which is must needed.
Good thing they resigned Swisher n his 280 n 25 homers so he could cover 1b in case. And good thing we have offense at catcher and RF and DH.
Well we can probably kiss goodbye our hopes for Teixeira to regain his lefthanded mojo this season. Not that I was really expecting that anyway.
I hope this somehow opens a door for Mustelier. Maybe he can be the East Coast Kung fu panda.