The Yankees introduced Friday morning that infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. is headed to the 10-day injured checklist resulting from a proper indirect pressure. The transfer is retroactive to April 30. Fellow infielder Jorbit Vivas has been recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to take Chisholm’s spot on the lively roster.
Chisholm exited Tuesday’s sport with discomfort in his facet and sat out Wednesday’s contest. Supervisor Aaron Boone revealed earlier this week that Chisholm would endure an MRI on Thursday’s off-day. That imaging clearly revealed sufficient for the Yankees to sit down Chisholm. Supervisor Aaron Boone stated Chisholm might miss 4 to 6 weeks, per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. There are situations of gamers making it again from very gentle strains earlier than that, in fact.
“In his thoughts, it’s going to be actual fast, however I believe it’s going to be some time,” Boone stated, per Hoch. “We’ll simply see how he heals up.”
Boone additionally added that Chisholm was surprised by his timeline to return. “He even stated, ‘I couldn’t imagine it,’” Boone stated.
The 27-year-old Chisholm has hit for loads of energy this season however has been way more strikeout-prone than he was in 2024. He’s slashing .181/.304/.410 with seven homers, three doubles, six steals (in seven makes an attempt) and a career-best 12% stroll charge. He’s additionally fanned in what can be a career-high 31.2% of his plate appearances and been dinged by a .200 common on balls in play — therefore the low batting common.
Even with the basement-level batting common, Chisholm’s method on the plate doesn’t look as alarming as one may anticipate. He’s really chasing pitches out of the strike zone on the lowest clip of his profession. His 21.1% chase charge sits practically seven proportion factors decrease than league-average. On the whole, Chisholm is seeing extra pitches than ever earlier than. He’s swinging at a career-low 41.1% of the pitches he sees, and his 4.27 pitches per plate look is each a career-high mark and the Twenty fourth-highest amongst 168 certified hitters.
The driving issue behind his strikeouts is simpler to clarify than to repair: Chisholm’s contact charge on pitches inside the zone has cratered from 80.7% final yr to 72.5% this season. (League common is simply over 85%.) Chisholm’s strikeout charge had really begun to come back down in current weeks; he’s fanned in one-quarter of his plate appearances over his previous 80 journeys to the plate — proper according to his 2024 ranges — so maybe the spike in punchouts may be chalked as much as some early-season white noise. Time will inform.
Within the meantime, Vivas will get his fourth recall to the majors and hope to lastly be plugged into to the lineup this time. He’s been summoned to MLB three different instances prior to now, however Boone has but to write down the 24-year-old’s title on the lineup card and even ship him right into a sport as a pinch-hitter, pinch-runner or defensive substitute.
Vivas is doing his finest to drive the difficulty in Triple-A. He’s had an outstanding begin to his 2025 season, batting .319/.426/.436 (139 wRC+) with a pair of residence runs, 5 doubles, six steals (in 10 makes an attempt) and extra walks (12.9%) than strikeouts (6.9%). The lefty-swinging Vivas, acquired from the Dodgers within the 2023-24 offseason, can play each second and third base.
