Major League Baseball made a major All-Star Game announcement on Sunday, revealing the players who will fill out each league’s roster, in addition to the starters who were announced last week. For the New York Yankees, as expected, Aaron Judge was elected to the American League starting lineup. One of their two additional players was also an expected pick.
Lefty starter Max Fried, a leading American League Cy Young candidate with a 2.27 ERA and a league-leading 11 pitcher wins was selected to represent the AL in his first year after coming over from the National League Atlanta Braves, where he received two previous selections.
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But the other Yankees player named to the AL squad was a surprise: 27-year-old infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr.
It’s not that Chisholm is having a bad year. With a solid .841 OPS with 15 home runs in 247 plate appearances, on pace to easily top his career high of 24 last year, he’s having a good one.
But whether those are true All-Star-caliber numbers is certainly debatable — and the MLB selection did not take into account the issue of his health. Chisholm has played in just 59 of the Yankees’ 90 games due to repeated injuries, most significantly an oblique strain that held him out of the Yankees lineup from April 30 until June 3.
On Sunday, new All-Star Chisholm’s health issues surfaced again.
In game against the New York Mets that snapped the Yankees’ second six-game losing streak in the last 3 1/2 weeks, with a 6-4 victory, Chisholm remained on the bench with what manager Aaron Boone described as a “super sore” right shoulder.
The second-time All-Star was scratched from Sunday’s game just two hours before first pitch. But Chisholm revealed to reporters that the soreness has been bothering him for approximately three weeks.
Jazz Chisholm says his shoulder has been bothering him for about three weeks:
“It’s nothing too crazy, I’ve been playing with it. No worries, no complaints” pic.twitter.com/RwQG2RtR6A
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The Yankees third baseman had made three infield throwing errors in his previous four games, but he said he did not blame the miscues on his shoulder issue.
“I would never use anything as an excuse,” Chisholm said, as quoted by the New York Post. “Yeah, my arm was sore, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t make a play.”
Chisholm claimed to be “fine,” however, and as of Monday morning there was no word from the team on the extent of the shoulder injury or whether it would lead to another injured list stint for the sixth-year infielder.
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