Jazz Chisholm Jr. has a sprained thumb and will reportedly be shut down from baseball activities for 7-10 days.
The Yankees are reportedly calling Anthony Volpe back up to replace Chisholm on the active roster. The Yankees just can't seem to get all their stars back in the lineup all together, but Chisholm still has a chance to come back for October baseball.
When taking a look at Chisholm's numbers as a whole, one could say the Yankees are not losing much. After a 31-homer, 31-steal season last year, Chisholm has been very disappointing this year. He has an American League-leading 40 bases and 19 home runs, but he came into the season with MVP hopes and even mentioned a desire to post a 50-50 season. Instead, he has a .232 batting average and a .715 OPS.
However, he has been swinging a very hot bat, and his injury may end up cooling him down. The Yankees would have loved to have the version of Chisholm they have had for about a month for the postseason. Since Aug. 4, Chisholm has a .295/.388/.443 slash line with three home runs, two doubles, a triple, 10 stolen bases and 10 RBIs.
Since the calendar flipped to August, Chisholm is all over the Yankees offensive leaderboard among qualified hitters. He is second on the team in walk rate, has the fourth-best strikeout rate, has the second-best batting average, has the third-best OPS and has the best hard-hit rate.
Not only are the Yankees losing him when he's hot, but they are losing him at a tough point on the calendar. Assuming Chisholm needs ten days off from baseball activities before he starts fielding grounders, playing catch and taking swings, he would not resume baseball activities until Aug. 19. After that, the Yankees only have 10 days before Game 1 of the wild card round. That would give Chisholm 10 days to get ready and hopefully get back in games to find his swing.
The Yankees could get Chisholm some extra time if they can pass the Tampa Bay Rays in the standings and secure a bye.