{"id":277042,"date":"2026-06-24T19:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277042\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:58:23","slug":"oswaldo-cabrera-making-yankees-return-as-ryan-mcmahon-hits-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277042\/","title":{"rendered":"Oswaldo Cabrera making Yankees return as Ryan McMahon hits IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 Oswaldo Cabrera is making his long-awaited return to the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year after he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/13\/sports\/oswaldo-cabrera-injury-update-yankees-worst-fears-confirmed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fractured his left ankle<\/a> and sustained ligament damage in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/13\/sports\/oswaldo-cabrera-taken-off-in-ambulance-with-gruesome-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a gruesome scene in Seattle<\/a>, the beloved utilityman is coming back to the Yankees as a replacement for Ryan McMahon, who is going on the injured list with an ear\/throat infection, a source confirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitting Cabrera had recently caught fire at Triple-A, batting .397 with a .967 OPS in 18 June games.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, he has been especially impactful from the right side, batting .385 with a .965 OPS in 64 plate appearances. <\/p>\n<p>That looms large as the Yankees are in a stretch where they are set to face a steady stream of lefty starters, including Tigers ace Tarik Skubal on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The brutal ankle injury cost Cabrera the rest of his 2025 season before he returned to exhibition action this spring. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39779172\" width=\"887\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2277787149.jpg\" alt=\"Oswaldo Cabrera during a Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre game on May 22, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-39779172\"  \/>Oswaldo Cabrera during a Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre game on May 22, 2026. NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39779190\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/new-york-yankees-third-baseman-131768623.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees third baseman Ryan McMahon makes a throw to first against the Reds on June 21, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-39779190\"  \/>Yankees third baseman Ryan McMahon makes a throw to first against the Reds on June 21, 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>He was still shaking off rust by the end of camp, when the Yankees (with a plethora of depth) optioned him to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon, meanwhile, had been battling the infection over the last few days. He was supposed to be in Tuesday\u2019s lineup against a righty but was eventually scratched because he was \u201cstill pretty banged up,\u201d Aaron Boone had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Oswaldo Cabrera is making his long-awaited return to the big leagues. More than a year after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,9,11,10,321,40210,36062,319],"class_list":["post-277042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-oswaldo-cabrera","tag-ryan-mcmahon","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277042","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=277042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}