New York hopes reliever Wilson can throw in a few days
TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees left-hander Justin Wilson won’t throw for several days and will receive oral anti-inflammatory medication in an effort to alleviate tightness in his pitching shoulder.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said it was too soon to determine whether Wilson will be ready for the team’s opener on April 1.
“I feel like overall we got pretty good news on the MRI front but he is dealing with some soreness,” Boone said Wednesday. “We’ll see where we are as the next couple of days unfold and see where that leaves us three days from now, five days from now, seven days from now.”
Wilson left Monday night’s exhibition against Philadelphia while facing his fourth batter, Odubel Herrera. He allowed a single to Rhys Hoskins, a home run to former Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius and a walk to Alec Bohm.
New York said Wilson had an MRI Tuesday that was compared to an MRI from a physical as part of the pitcher’s signing last month.
“There was nothing actionable from those images,” the Yankees said.
The 33-year-old signed a $5.15 million, two-year contract this offseason to start his second stint with the Yankees. He spent the past two seasons with the New York Mets.
New York lefty Zack Britton had surgery March 15 to remove a bone chip from his pitching elbow and is likely out until at least May and perhaps the summer.
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO TO STREAM 21 GAMES
NEW YORK — Amazon Prime Video will stream 21 Yankees games to members
in New York’s broadcast market for the second straight season, a slate that starts with an April 18 matchup against Tampa Bay.
The games are produced by the Yankees’ YES Network and are all scheduled for broadcast on WPIX. YES said Wedneday they will be available at no additional cost to Prime members in the Yankees’ home market of New York state, Connecticut, northeast Pennsylvania, and north and central New Jersey.
Broadcasts will include a 15-game pregame show and streams viewed on Android, iOS mobile and Fire TV and will include an in-game statistics feed.
Major League Baseball owners voted in November 2019 to have digital streaming
rights within a team’s broadcast market revert to each club from Baseball Advanced Media starting with the 2020 season.
The Yankees reacquired control of YES in August 2019, joining Amazon and the Sinclair Broadcast Group to buy an 80% stake from The Walt Disney Co. in a deal that valued YES at $3.47 billion. Disney was required to sell 21st Century Fox’s regional sports networks as part of its acquisition of Fox’s entertainment assets.
Yankees Global Enterprises owns a 26% share in YES, while Sinclair owns 20% and Amazon 15% with the right to purchase more. The rest is split among RedBird Capital, The Blackstone Group and Mubadala Capital.