After three days with a lot of rain, we’ll finally have Yankees baseball again this afternoon, as New York and Texas are scheduled to play a single-admission doubleheader. However, the Yankees’ roster won’t be exactly the same as they left it in Toronto on Wednesday. Fourth outfielder Tim Locastro has hit the 10-day IL with a latissimus dorsi strain, which is a mid-to-lower back injury.
It’s unfortunate because the Yankees really took advantage of having a guy like Locastro around, particularly during their 11-game winning streak. He was a good defensive replacement, a blazing fast pinch-runner (he entered late for Giancarlo Stanton on multiple occasions), and he even acquitted himself well with the bat in limited action with a 139 wRC+ in 15 plate appearances, including a homer.