{"id":257945,"date":"2026-06-07T03:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257945\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T03:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:08:58","slug":"yankees-place-austin-wells-on-il-call-up-j-c-escarra-one-day-after-demotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257945\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees place Austin Wells on IL, call up J.C. Escarra one day after demotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state of the Yankees\u2019 catching position has not been good this season, but now it is in flux.<\/p>\n

In a span of 24 hours, the Yankees went from optioning J.C. Escarra to Triple-A<\/a> and calling up Ali S\u00e1nchez to placing Austin Wells on the injured list shortly before Saturday\u2019s game with \u201ccervical headaches\u201d and calling Escarra back up.<\/p>\n

When Aaron Boone spoke to reporters two and a half hours before the scheduled first pitch between the Yankees and Red Sox on Saturday, there was no indication that Wells was dealing with something physically, other than him struggling mightily at the plate for most of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The right-handed hitting S\u00e1nchez was in the lineup on Saturday night, but that was believed to be only because the Red Sox were starting lefty Ranger Su\u00e1rez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewAustin Wells reacts after striking out during the Yankees\u2019 June 5 game. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Now, the Yankees will have to figure out how to split the workload between S\u00e1nchez and Escarra while Wells \u2014 who had started 45 of the Yankees\u2019 63 games before Saturday \u2014 is on the 10-day IL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the Yankees had known that Wells\u2019 physical issues were serious enough for an IL stint, they presumably would not have gone through the hassle of telling Escarra he was being demoted to Triple-A on Friday night.<\/p>\n

\"YankeesJ.C. Escarra (r.) is pictured during the Yankees\u2019 May 7 game. Bill Kostroun for the NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just felt like, with our catchers struggling a little bit offensively obviously, just felt like the opportunity exists for Ali to get up here and give us a different look, and give J.C. a chance to go down there and play a little more regularly,\u201d Boone had said before the Yankees changed course.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s some things he\u2019s working on offensively that I really \u2014 not only has he already done a great job behind the plate, but I do feel like there\u2019s an offensive player in there at this level. But I think some regular reps down there hopefully will serve him well and hopefully Ali can come up here and provide a little bit of a spark and a different look too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state of the Yankees\u2019 catching position has not been good this season, but now it is in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35512,63307,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-257945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-austin-wells","tag-j-c-escarra","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257945","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=257945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}