{"id":32369,"date":"2025-07-29T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32369\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:58:08","slug":"yankees-notes-judge-bellinger-goldschmidt-slater-schlittler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32369\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Notes: Judge, Bellinger, Goldschmidt, Slater, Schlittler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Judge<\/a>\u2019s right flexor strain<\/a> continues to be the overarching story impacting the Yankees\u2019 business on and off the field as the trade deadline approaches.\u00a0 Manager Aaron Boone provided some more details on Judge\u2019s status in an interview with Jomboy Media\u2019s \u201cTalkin\u2019 Yanks\u201d podcast (link to X<\/a>) today, saying that Judge is slated to start hitting off a tee no later than tomorrow.\u00a0 It will still be 10-15 more days before Judge is able to throw, however, keeping with the initial expectation that Judge will be limited to DH duty when he is able to return to New York\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n

Judge received a PRP injection in order to help the healing process, and if he is able to swing without discomfort, that should allow him to get back into the field at least as a designated hitter.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good sign that Judge is already set to take some swings, though there won\u2019t be many sighs of relief in the Bronx until Judge is officially back from the 10-day IL, and perhaps not until he is able to take his regular spot back in right field.\u00a0 The longer Judge is DH-locked, the longer Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> will have to play the outfield, which is itself a roll of the dice considering Stanton\u2019s lengthy injury history.<\/p>\n

The ripple effect of Judge\u2019s injury can\u2019t be understated, as the superstar\u2019s absence adds to the recent misery for a Yankees team that is 15-24 over its last 39 games.\u00a0 While the Yankees are 57-49 and remain the AL\u2019s top wild card team, SNY\u2019s Andy Martino<\/a> reported yesterday that the club was considering selling some talent at the deadline if Judge\u2019s elbow issue had proved to be season-ending.\u00a0 Following up on that report, Martino adds<\/a> that the Yankees floated Cody Bellinger<\/a> and Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> in talks with at least one team.\u00a0 Goldschmidt is an impending free agent, and Bellinger can opt out of his $25MM player option for 2026 and enter the open market as well following the season.<\/p>\n

This could just be due diligence and an example of how front offices tend to prepare for any scenario, as Martino again stressed that it is quite unlikely that the Bronx Bombers will be anything but deadline buyers.\u00a0 New York has already been busy on the trade front in adding Ryan McMahon<\/a> and Amed Rosario<\/a>, and remain linked to multiple other players on the rumor mill.<\/p>\n

Austin Slater<\/a> is the latest name in the mix, as ESPN\u2019s Buster Olney<\/a> lists Slater as one of the right-handed hitting outfielders on the Bombers\u2019 list of possible targets.\u00a0 The veteran outfielder is hitting .244\/.308\/.437 over 131 plate appearances for the White Sox this season, with an .897 OPS in 74 PA against left-handed pitching.<\/p>\n

A right meniscus tear shelved Slater for about five weeks earlier this season, but has looked good since returning in May.\u00a0 Slater is one of the more inexpensive rentals on the market, as he has only around $580K remaining on his $1.75MM salary for the 2025 campaign.\u00a0 He\u2019d fit into any team\u2019s budget at that number, so plenty of teams beyond just the Yankees figure to be checking in with the White Sox.<\/p>\n

As Martino noted, the Yankees may be more apt to make modest deadline upgrades than to swing any real headline-grabbing trades.\u00a0 If the club did do something a little more consequential like move a highly-touted prospect, Cam Schlittler<\/a> might be a player to watch, as MLB.com\u2019s Bryan Hoch<\/a> writes that the right-hander \u201cis rumored to be near the top of several wish lists\u201d from rival teams.<\/p>\n

Schlittler is just three starts into his big league career, with a 4.91 ERA over his 14 2\/3 inning in the Show.\u00a0 His 13.2% walk rate and three home runs allowed are signs of growing pains, but Schlittler has posted very good numbers in the minors since being a seventh-round pick for New York in the 2022 draft.\u00a0 Offering a big league-ready young starter can open the door in many trade talks, yet given how the Yankees are themselves stretched for rotation depth, they might well see the value in keeping Schlittler for the rest of the 2025 stretch run, let alone for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge\u2019s right flexor strain continues to be the overarching story impacting the Yankees\u2019 business on and off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[465,24781,49,8293,48,8298,462,18213,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-32369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-austin-slater","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-cam-schlittler","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-cody-bellinger","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}