The Roll Call Podcast

Yankee Stadium has 49,642 seats #coronavirus as of date has taken 50,000 lives. People please take this serious. #handwashing  SocialDistancing and #StayAtHome  so we can one day soon be back watching the Yankees again soon.

RIP HANK
Hank Steinbrenner, general partner and co-chairperson of the Yankees, died at his Clearwater, Fla., residence due to a long-standing health issue surrounded by family members.
According to a source, the cause of death was not COVID-19.
The 63-year-old Steinbrenner was in his 13th year as general partner and 11th as co-chairperson.
With George Steinbrenner’s health failing in the late 2000s, Hank Steinbrenner, dubbed “Baby Boss,” took on a more active role and displayed a resemblance to his father’s bold approach to running the club. George Steinbrenner passed away in July 2010.
However, in recent years Hank Steinbrenner hasn’t been seen around the Yankees much and heard from less as the more reserved Hal Steinbrenner moved to the forefront of the operation, serving as the public face of the Yankees and representing the club at owners’ meetings.

WILL THEY PLAY IN 2020
Major League Baseball and the Players Union have discussed a plan that would potentially allow the baseball season to start as early as May... I think July is a more realistic timeframe and without fans.

ON THE BUMP
During spring training that was dramatically shortened by MLB due to the spread of the coronavirus, Happ was well on his way to proving his worth to the Yankees.  Jordan Mongomery impressed the least as he pitched to an ERA of 7.40 in four games,  newly acquired ace Gerrit Cole only managed an ERA of 7.00, Masahiro Tanaka was second best, in three games had a 1-0 record with an impressive  2.08 ERA.  The best pitcher in spring training was J.A. Happ; he went 2-0 with an incredible 1.38 ERA in 14 innings.  Happ hopes to carry his performance into the regular season, and have an impact getting the Yankees to the World Series.

BEAT HITTER
Aaron Judge in ‘19 (102 games): 141 wRC+, .381 OBP, .921 OPS, 27 HR
(wRC is weighted Runs created)
It's adjusted, so a wRC+ of 100 is league average and 150 would be 50 percent above league average.
DJ LeMahieu in ‘19 (145 games): 136 wRC+, .375 OBP, .893 OPS, 26 HR
Judge was BETTER last year and is still the BEST hitter on the Yankees.

IL UPDATE
Aaron Judge has been dealing with a stress fracture in his first right rib that is believed to come from a play from last season in which he dove for a ball in the outfield. Judge had missed the first few games of Spring Training due to this and it wasn’t likely that he was going to be healthy for the originally scheduled Opening Day.
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone provided an update on the star right fielder’s progress.
“He’s in Tampa,” Boone told to Yes Network’s Meredith Marakovits. “We’re using this time, he’s using this time to continue to heal. I don’t really have much more for you other than, obviously, it’s been very productive having the chance to have this time to allow that rib to heal. That is happening. But as for where he’s at exactly, we don’t have anything for you on that yet.”

Opening Day has been pushed back at least two months now, so this time off could be beneficial for the star slugger. Judge might be able to recover fully in time for the new Opening Day. Teammates James Paxton, Giancarlo Stanton, and Aaron Hicks are in a similar situation as the MLB shutdown might allow these players to heal up before the pending season begins.

Giancarlo Stanton’s Grade 1 calf strain was expected to have him ready on or close to Opening Day. Boone gave an update on him as well, saying he should definitely be cleared to play at this point.
"Giancarlo's doing well. He's still reporting in Tampa and going through his rehab," he said. "He's doing really well -- he should, when we get ready to go, he should certainly be ready to be back and part of things."
And finally, James Paxton's surgery to remove a cyst from his back had a timeframe or end-of-May/early-June before returning to the mound. He was shooting for mid-May, but either way, he should be able to come back.
He's been throwing bullpen sessions on his own, and after his latest one, Boone said the progression continues.
"James Paxton's done great," he explained. "Feel really good about the decision to go ahead with the surgery and every step of the way it's gone pretty smoothly for him. I think he threw, maybe, his fifth bullpen the other day and continues to report that it's going really well, so really encouraged where James is as well."

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Roll Call 2/27/20
Sevy Done For the Year, Stanton Out Indefinitely 
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Giancarlo Stanton Grade 1 right calf strain. Boone: “he will be down a bit.” Made it sound unlikely he will be ready for the start of the season. 
Stanton's calf strain occured at the end of his defensive work yesterday, Boone said. He stayed back from the Blue Jays trip with most of the veterans. Got the MRI result, and it didn’t look good. 
Since the start of 2019, Giancarlo Stanton has missed time with:
A strained left biceps
A strained left shoulder
A strained left calf
A strained right PCL
A strained right quad
A strained right calf

Luis Severino is headed for Tommy John surgery and expected to miss the 2020 season after a dye contrast MRI revealed a partial UCL tear in his elbow.
The 2019 Yankees medical staff clearing Luis Severino to pitch a potential Game 7 in the ALCS after complaining about forearm pain following Game 3 was their final parting gift.
He threw just 20 innings between the regular season and postseason last season.
At this time last year, Severino was viewed as one of the majors’ best SPs and there was some criticism that he had taken a 4-yr, $40M extension from the Yankees rather than seek more or go year to year. He will have 5 starts total between 2019-20 now.
A dye contrast MRI finally revealed a partial UCL tear in Luis Severino. He is headed for Tommy John surgery and will miss the 2020 season. Testing also revealed pain in the area of the ligament for the first time. Brian Cashman said in-house competition will fill his spot.
It won’t be Devi Garcia.. and I like Clarke Schmidt as much as anyone, but I don’t think he breaks the team out of camp, AAA and Schmidt only has 19 innings in AA. He’s probably a mid season call up, at best, if at all. 
Jordan Montgomery and JA Happ are probably slotted in behind Gerrit Cole and Masahiro Tanaka. Maybe Chad Green as an opener on 5th starter days.. or Jonathon Loaisiga.. Luis Cessa will get a start or two.. 
The Yankees are loaded with young arms in Michael King, Devi Garcia, Clarke Schmidt, that may get a chance to step up. James Paxton is going to start throwing next week, and says he’ll be back in May. Domingo German comes back in the beginning of June. 
The Lineup?
C - Sanchez
1B - Voit
2B - LeMahieu
3B - Urshela 
SS - Torres
LF - Frazier (looks good so far) 
CF - Tauchman
RF - Judge
DH - Andujar
Utility- Wade
OF - Gardner 
Catcher- Higashioka 
1B-DH- Mike Ford 

Yankees likely to start season on IL:
Hicks, Paxton, Severino, Stanton

The Yankees won 103 games and barely missed the World Series last year without Luis Severino and Giancarlo Stanton for most of the season. 
They’ve since added Gerrit Cole and have Miguel Andujar back.
Don’t overreact to the injuries. This season will still be great for the Bronx Bombers. They have to get off to a decent start, and get guys back in May and June and then go win us a World Series.