{"id":306360,"date":"2026-07-27T09:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306360\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:56:19","slug":"amed-rosario-struggling-against-lefty-pitchers-in-concerning-yankees-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306360\/","title":{"rendered":"Amed Rosario struggling against lefty pitchers in concerning Yankees trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Yankees brought Amed Rosario back to be a lefty killer, and through the first two months of the season, he was.<\/p>\n

In the past two months, though, it\u2019s the lefties that have done the killing against the Yankees utility player.<\/p>\n

Still \u2014 in part because the Yankees are beat up and are now without three of their better hitters against lefties in Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton \u2014 Rosario hit third again Sunday night against Phillies southpaw Cristopher S\u00e1nchez in an 11-4 loss in the series finale at Citizens Bank Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you watch the at-bats, especially against lefties, I know the numbers haven\u2019t been there, but he\u2019s having the right at-bats, he\u2019s just going through it a little bit,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said.<\/p>\n

\"AmedAmed Rosario, pictured during a Yankees game July 17, has struggled against left-handed pitching recently. Getty Images<\/p>\n

In 50 plate appearances against lefties through May 26, Rosario was hitting .273 with an .888 OPS.<\/p>\n

But in 56 plate appearances against lefties since then, entering Sunday, he was batting just .135 with a .408 OPS. <\/p>\n

That included being in a 1-for-17 slump entering Sunday\u2019s game. <\/p>\n

Rosario was 1-for-4 in the loss with a pair of strikeouts before being lifted for pinch hitter Ryan McMahon in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Rosario has continued to be a staple in the top third of Yankees lineups against most lefties despite the lack of results, though they are not overflowing with options to replace him. <\/p>\n

The 30-year-old did still have an average exit velocity of 90.3 mph and an 11.1 percent barrel rate, both of which ranked in the top half of the league and gave the Yankees some hope that he was capable of getting back on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s on stuff and is presenting like a guy that\u2019s going to impact against lefties,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s just, on a smaller level, hasn\u2019t gotten results. But doesn\u2019t change my confidence that he will moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge and Stanton are expected to travel to Chicago with the Yankees this week for their series against the White Sox and Cubs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ll have some of our trainer guys that go on the road, we\u2019ll be able to do that,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n

Cross Shea Langeliers off the list of potential catchers the Yankees could acquire at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

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The Athletics placed the backstop on the injured list Sunday<\/a> with a torn meniscus, which could cost him the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

Langeliers, under contract through 2028, was going to be tough to land, but now his injury has essentially ruled out any trade involving him.<\/p>\n

Clarke Schmidt (Tommy John surgery) faced hitters for the second time Sunday at Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, continuing his ramp-up toward a rehab assignment. \u2026 Max Fried will start Monday\u2019s series opener against the White Sox, giving Gerrit Cole an extra day of rest before starting Tuesday after both had thrown in Wednesday\u2019s doubleheader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Yankees brought Amed Rosario back to be a lefty killer, and through the first two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36097,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-306360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amed-rosario","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\/306360","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=306360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}