Mark Teixeira Injury Adds To The Yankees 2013 Woes

The Yankees lost another bat and even more offensive production from an already depleted lineup on Tuesday March 5th with an injury to a tendon in Mark Teixeira’s right wrist.  The injury occurred while Teixeira was hitting off a tee for team USA in preparation for the World baseball classic.  The injured tendon will keep him out for 8-10 weeks.

Not great news today but you have to roll with the punches.Going to work my tail off to get back soon and help my #Yankees win #28.

— Mark Teixeira (@teixeiramark25) March 7, 2013

Teixeira accounted for 66 R, 113 H, 24 HR, and 84 RBI’s last year. The injury to Teixeira also takes a gold glove off of first base on defense. The loss of Teixeira along with the injury to Curtis Granderson takes a total of 67 HR’s and 190 RBI’s out of the Yankee batting order. Granderson was hit by a pitch in his first at bat of spring training breaking his forearm. He is also expected to be out for about 10 weeks.

Thanks everyone for all your prayers and wishes.Just a small bump in the road.I’ll be back soon and ready to go!

— Curtis Granderson (@cgrand14) February 26, 2013

Despite the mounting injuries Yankees GM Brian Cashman has said that he has no plans to make trades to fill the holes left by Teixeira and Granderson. Cashman has said that the Yankees plans at this point are to go forward with the group of players that they currently have in camp at spring training in Tampa. Ironically these statements were made following a sky diving accident of all things, in which Cashman broke his own right ankle on Monday.

The Yankees are now in a position where 8 out of 10 of their top HR hitters are either hurt or on other teams, and now even the GM is on the injured list. Add that to the fact that Mariano Rivera announced that he will retire at the end of this season and fans can come to the conclusion that 2013 is not shaping up to be a good one in the Bronx.

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