Yankees decide who will replace Gleyber Torres on 25-man roster

by Felix Pantaleón

Yankees rookie second baseman landed on the 10-day disabled list on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 (7/4/18). He left the 6-2 win over the Atlanta Braves with a strained right hip. Infielder Tyler Wade is being recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre to replace Torres on the roster.

The loss of Gleyber Torres means the return of Tyler Wade to the Yankees.

According to Jack Curry from YES Network, Wade will be activated Friday before the club begins a three-game series against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto.

It’s official on Tyler Wade. He will be activated tomorrow and will be on the 25-man roster for the Yankees.

— Jack Curry (@JackCurryYES) July 5, 2018

Wade is a versatile player who has been a much better performer at AAA in the last month, with hits in 25 of last 29 games. While he might get a few reps at second, he’s also a backup for Didi at SS, something the Yankees lost when Torres went on D.L. Wade can also play the OF.

— Jack Curry (@JackCurryYES) July 5, 2018

Torres was taken out of Wednesday’s 6-2 win over the Braves at Yankee Stadium and had an MRI, which revealed a mild strain in his right hip.

The Yankees aren’t sure when the injury happened, but pulled him before the start of the fifth inning because he started to feel tightness and was noticeably in discomfort in a fourth-inning at-bat.

After the game, manager Aaron Boone said he hoped it would be a “short stint” on the DL for Torres and that he could return perhaps just after the All-Star break. Boone said it might have been possible for Torres to play through if it were later in the season. “Any time you’re thinking about groin, hamstring, quads — once you have a strain in there, if you push through it could make it a worse strain, and then you’re talking weeks and months and stuff like that,” the manager said.

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Wade won the starting second base job out of spring training but hit poorly in April and got sent down. He played in 13 games this season, hitting .086 (3-for-35) with 11 strikeouts.

However since June 1, Wade has hit .317 with two homers, seven RBI and a .835 OPS in 30 games at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Wade made his major league debut in 2017, playing in a total of 30 games, and hitting .155 in 58 at-bats.

The Yankees called up Wade instead of Ronald Torreyes, who is on the minor-league temporarily inactive list and has been away from the Triple-A team for more than a week because of a personal family issue.

Boone said Wednesday Neil Walker will get “the bulk” of time at second base and that Brandon Drury will start working out at the position before games.

(NJ Advance Media’s Brendan Kuty contributed to this report.)

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