MINNEAPOLIS — Clint Frazier mentioned he received a recent begin when he was launched from the Yankees final November and he instantly signed with the Cubs. Still, Frazier, who might be within the Bronx this weekend with Chicago, can’t appear to fairly let go of his time in pinstripes.
In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Frazier took a number of pictures at his former membership.
“A lot of it is hard to really look at and understand where it went wrong at times,” Frazier instructed the paper about his components of 5 seasons with the membership.
Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone took the excessive highway when discuss Frazier Thursday earlier than the Yankees’ sequence finale towards the Twins at Target Field.
“I mean he had some injury stuff that he had to deal with that cost him a lot of time, especially a lot of time as a young player, where you continue to develop whether it be at the minor league level or‚ in his case, a lot at the big league level,” Boone mentioned. “He missed a lot of time and important reps, by no (fault) of his own, it’s just unfortunate. But he’s a really talented guy. We certainly wish him well moving forward in his career because we all know he’s got a lot of ability.”
The prospect with the “legendary bat speed,” by no means developed into far more than a reputation.
Last yr, Frazier took himself out of a recreation on June 30 and he went on the injured listing with what the group described as vertigo, then a neck difficulty and a imaginative and prescient difficulty. There have been by no means any actual solutions, however now Frazier mentioned he was battling one other concussion, which he tried to play by, deciding to not disclose his suspicion to the Yankees for worry it wouldn’t be taken severely.
In 2018, when Frazier suffered a concussion in spring coaching, the Yankees shut him down and had him see a number of specialists.
In the tip, Frazier was a .239/.327/.434 hitter with a .761 OPS, 29 dwelling runs and 97 RBI over components of 5 seasons with the Yankees.
So far, his time with the Cubs hasn’t been far more profitable. After a sluggish begin to the season, Frazier suffered an appendectomy, forcing him to overlook a month.
Frazier was hitting .216/.356/.297 with a .653 OPS and 87 OPS+ in 45 plate appearances. He doesn’t have a house run and only one RBI.
And he’s on the sting of presumably being demoted when Cubs rookie sensation Seiya Suzuki’s returns from the IL.
Frazier mentioned he feels free to precise himself now that he’s with the Cubs. He’s grown the beard that each one gamers free of the Yankees’ grooming pointers appear to develop and now he wears a nostril ring.
“And you had to be a cookie-cutter version to be on that team” he mentioned. “If not, then you were like a really bad distraction, it seemed like. So, I don’t miss being told how I had to look for the last five years.”
SCORELESS
Clay Holmes picked up his ninth save of the season with an ideal ninth inning in Thursday evening’s 10-7 win over the Twins. He additionally prolonged his scoreless streak to 27 innings over 25 straight appearances. He has the longest single-season scoreless streak since Mariano Rivera went 30.2 scoreless in 1999.
GERMAN HEADING OUT
Domingo German threw three innings of a simulated recreation on Thursday. The right-hander, who has been on the IL since spring coaching with “right shoulder impingement syndrome,” will most likely pitch subsequent in a rehab recreation subsequent week.
“I mean, all reports are that he’s in a pretty good place as far as just health-wise and throwing the ball, his work has been really good. So I think everyone’s been really encouraged by what they’ve seen down there,” Boone mentioned. “He’s a really good pitcher. He’s capable of starting but could also be a guy that could really be a weapon for us out of the pen, too.”
Considering the Yankees may have an innings difficulty with Luis Severino, who had pitched 27.1 innings over the previous three years due to accidents, and Nestor Cortes, whose solely pitched to 119 innings, German may very well be an necessary addition to the employees within the subsequent month.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com