The Yankees are proceeding carefully with one of the most heavily used bullpens in MLB.
, 13 of their past 15 games had been decided by three runs or fewer.
Even with the Yankees taking Wandy Peralta out of the relief rotation for days at a time, he is on pace to make a career-high 73 appearances.“There’s some objectivity to it in terms of the total volume of work we can calculate and then the subjective component of how are guys recovering,” Blake said. “There’s a little bit of art and science to it, but you’re trying to put the pieces together in as clear a way as possible for them so they know the expectations.
“But fortunately, the way the schedule lined up for him and then for Jimmy after the Seattle series into the next one, sometimes you can find the situations where you give them three or four nights if they’ve been run hard. Hopefully give them a little reset and they’re good to go again.”Called up to fill the roster hole left by Aaron Judge’s injury, Billy McKinney has hit almost from the day he arrived, and hasn’t really stopped.
But he has not stopped hitting since. The 28-year-old outfielder hit homers on Tuesday and Wednesday against the Mariners, and he has reached base in each of his first 13 games as a Yankee. During that stretch, he’s hitting .318 with a .984 OPS.
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