Yankees’ Donaldson stays on injured list with hamstring strain

NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson will stay on the injured listing due to a strained proper hamstring after feeling discomfort throughout a minor league rehabilitation task.

The former AL MVP was injured on April 5 within the Yankees’ sixth recreation this season whereas working between dwelling and first on a flyout. He went 1 for 3 on Tuesday in his first recreation with Double-A Somerset and felt the tightness, then was despatched for a scan.

“So he had the MRI and he does have a Grade 1-plus, probably, strain in there so he’ll probably be another couple of weeks,” supervisor Aaron Boone stated earlier than Friday’s sequence opener in opposition to Toronto. “He’s doing pretty well. He’s getting around pretty well but there is something there.”

Grade 1 is the mildest of three grades used to outline the severity of strains.

A 3-time All-Star, the 37-year-old Donaldson is 2 for 16 (.125) for the Yankees this season. Acquired from Minnesota in March 2022, he has a $21 million wage this yr within the remaining season of a $92 million, four-year contract he agreed to with the Twins. The deal features a $16 million choice for 2024 with an $8 million buyout.

Donaldson was voted AL MVP with Toronto in 2015.

He is amongst a dozen Yankees on the injured listing, joined by designed hitter Giancarlo Stanton (strained left hamstring); middle fielder Harrison Bader (strained left indirect); beginning pitchers Carlos Rodón (strained left forearm), Luis Severino (strained proper lat muscle) and Frankie Montas (proper shoulder surgical procedure); relievers Tommy Kahnle (proper biceps tendinitis), Lou Trivino (strained proper elbow), Scott Effross (Tommy John surgical procedure) and Jonathan Loáisiga (proper elbow irritation); pitcher Luis Gil (Tommy John surgical procedure); catcher Ben Rortvedt (left shoulder aneurysm surgical procedure).

Bader began a rehab task on Friday at Somerset and Rortvedt started at Class A Tampa.