The Yankees are dealing with their fair share of injuries these days, but most of them are cases that they have known about for a while and are currently rehabbing or working their way back. There were no new concerns\u2026 until Monday.<\/p>\n
Gary Phillips of the New York Daily News reported that infielder Jos\u00e9 Caballero, who had been solid as a fill-in for injured shortstop Anthony Volpe<\/a>, hurt the middle finger on his right hand while sliding back to base on Sunday.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Per the insider, Caballero has received treatment, but feels enough discomfort to warrant an MRI, which is definitely not what the team wanted to hear. There is a chance the finger is not fractured, and the infielder himself believes that\u2019s not the case, but we know better than trusting players on their own physical ailments.<\/p>\n After the conclusion of Monday\u2019s game, Caballero is expected to return to New York to see a hand specialist as well as Dr. Christopher Ahmad, the Yankees\u2019 physician, to get a look at the injury. Bombers\u2019 manager Aaron Boone told Phillips that \u201cthere\u2019s definitely some concern<\/a>\u201d over Caballero\u2019s finger.<\/p>\n Caballero had a rough start to his season, but has improved considerably in recent weeks. He is slashing a solid .259\/.320\/.400 with four home runs, 18 runs scored, 13 RBI, 13 stolen bases, and a 104 wRC+. He\u2019s already at 1.1 fWAR, fourth on the team among position players behind Aaron Judge<\/a>, Cody Bellinger<\/a>, and Ben Rice<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Caballero had been so good that the Yankees recently optioned starting shortstop Anthony Volpe to the minor leagues after his own rehab stint was up. If the former needs a trip to the injured list, the latter will almost certainly be back on the major league roster.<\/p>\n Max Schuemann<\/a> is playing shortstop for the Yankees on Monday\u2019s opener against the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> in Caballero\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are dealing with their fair share of injuries these days, but most of them are cases…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35539,10094,4459,15492,48671,89529,13917,4460,54119,60099,17704,9,14051,11,10,321,44814],"class_list":["post-228027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-boone","tag-aaron-judge","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-ben-rice","tag-christopher-ahmad","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-gary-phillips","tag-jose-caballero","tag-max-schuemann","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-the-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}