{"id":38828,"date":"2025-07-04T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38828\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:23:08","slug":"yankees-place-clarke-schmidt-on-15-day-il-with-forearm-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38828\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Place Clarke Schmidt On 15-Day IL With Forearm Tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees have placed starting pitcher Clarke Schmidt<\/a><\/strong> on the 15-day injured list with right forearm tightness. In additional pitching transactions, the team optioned Clayton Beeter<\/a><\/strong> to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre yesterday and recalled Scott Effross<\/a><\/strong> and Jayvien Sandridge<\/a> <\/strong>this morning.<\/p>\n

Schmidt, 29, exited early on Thursday after giving up three runs in three innings against the Blue Jays and later revealed that he has been nursing some tightness in his forearm for a month (per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com<\/a>). He is going for imaging today (per Greg Joyce of the New York Post<\/a>), which is worrisome enough, but the fact that the team placed him on the IL before his MRI is further cause for concern. Joyce suggests that it is not yet clear if the Yankees will be able to offer an update on Schmidt by the end of the day today.<\/p>\n

The right-hander sat out the first three weeks of the season with rotator cuff tendonitis. Upon his return, however, he picked up right where he left off in 2024 (another injury-shortened but nonetheless successful campaign). Through 16 starts this year, Schmidt has pitched to a 3.32 ERA and 4.23 SIERA. Add that to his 16 starts from last year, and you get a 3.07 ERA and 3.97 SIERA through 30 starts and 164 innings. In other words, it\u2019s not hard to see why he\u2019s so important to the middle of the Yankees\u2019 rotation and why losing him to the IL again would be a significant loss for the club.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s rotation was already stretched thin with Gerrit Cole<\/a><\/strong> out for the year, Luis Gil<\/a><\/strong> out since spring training with a lat strain, and Ryan Yarbrough<\/a><\/strong> recently hitting the IL with a strained oblique. Max Fried<\/a><\/strong> and Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong> make for as good of a top two as you\u2019ll find on any AL club, but Will Warren<\/a><\/strong> has been wildly inconsistent in his rookie season, and Marcus Stroman<\/a><\/strong> only just returned from a long IL stint of his own. The only other healthy starter on the 40-man roster is 29-year-old Allan Winans<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>, who has excelled at Triple-A but has a career 7.38 ERA over 10 MLB games. JT Brubaker<\/strong><\/a> can also start, but he has been pitching out of the bullpen this year and has not started in the majors since 2022. According to Chris Kirschner of The Athletic<\/a>, the team considers pitching prospect Cam Schlittler<\/a><\/strong> a potential option for the rotation in the second half, but it\u2019s unclear if they would call him up sooner. He has been excellent in the minors this season, but this is only his third professional campaign, and he only has five starts at Triple-A under his belt. So, if Schmidt misses significant time \u2013 and even if he doesn\u2019t \u2013 the Yankees could seek some outside help for the rotation as they look to regain first place in the AL East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have placed starting pitcher Clarke Schmidt on the 15-day injured list with right forearm tightness. In…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5244,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-38828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-clarke-schmidt","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114796600338932596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}