The Yankees introduced Friday morning that infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. is headed to the 10-day injured checklist because of 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 bear an MRI on Thursday’s off-day. That imaging clearly revealed sufficient for the Yankees to sit down Chisholm down for the following week-plus. The workforce hasn’t formally offered a timetable for Chisholm’s return but, although even Grade 1 indirect strains can sideline gamers for upwards of a month. There are cases of gamers making it again from very delicate strains ahead of that, in fact. Boone will certainly present extra info on Chisholm’s damage outlook previous to tonight’s sport.
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 fee. He’s additionally fanned in what could 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 strategy on the plate doesn’t look as alarming as one would possibly anticipate. He’s really chasing pitches out of the strike zone on the lowest clip of his profession. His 21.1% chase fee sits almost seven share factors decrease than league-average. Normally, 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 less complicated to clarify than to repair: Chisholm’s contact fee 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 fee had really begun to come back down in latest weeks; he’s fanned in one-quarter of his plate appearances over his previous 80 journeys to the plate — proper in step with his 2024 ranges — so maybe the spike in punchouts could 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 previously, however Boone has but to jot down the 24-year-old’s identify on the lineup card and even ship him right into a sport as a pinch-hitter, pinch-runner or defensive alternative.
Vivas is doing his finest to pressure the problem 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.
