Anthony Rizzo’s plan is to receive X-rays on the fourth and fifth fingers on his right hand Thursday after which assess what his future with the Yankees is perhaps.
The club holds an option for next season with the veteran first baseman price $17 million and Rizzo’s preference is to remain.
However the Yankees could just as easily give him a $6 million buyout and look in a distinct direction.
“I’m going to speak with Money and the Yankees and see what they’re pondering,” Rizzo said, referring to general manager Brian Cashman after the team’s 7-6 loss to the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series.
Rizzo’s prefers to stay with the club.
“I feel like I even have so much to supply to this game in a number of other ways,” he said. “I don’t wish to take this [uniform] off.”
Rizzo was in the midst of a play within the fifth inning Wednesday that helped flush the Yankees’ 5-0 lead and send the Dodgers toward the World Series trophy.
Mookie Betts hit a bases-loaded squib grounder to Rizzo that ought to have been the ultimate out. But Rizzo was slow moving to the bottom and that got compounded by the actual fact Gerrit Cole wasn’t covering the bag.
Betts was secure, the Dodgers’ first run scored, and before the inning finished it was 5-5.
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“The balls off the bat against a righty, they’re spinning,” Rizzo said. “I used to be going a technique and the ball kicked one other way, so you will have just got to essentially follow all of it the way in which since you don’t know what the ball goes to do.”
And a breakdown in communication with Cole didn’t help.
“Pitchers are at all times taught to recover from irrespective of what,” Rizzo said. “It was only a weird spinning play.”
Rizzo, who broke two fingers last month and missed the ALDS before returning for the ALCS and World Series, said it was hard saying goodbye to his teammates afterward.
“That’s the last time you’ll ever be with that exact team, these exact people in that moment,” Rizzo said. “The uncertainty of what this clubhouse looks like next 12 months is unquestionably up within the air. But whenever you lose like this, it’s more just giving one another hugs and letting one another know the way much they mean to you.”
Anthony Rizzo’s plan is to receive X-rays on the fourth and fifth fingers on his right hand Thursday after which assess what his future with the Yankees is perhaps.
The club holds an option for next season with the veteran first baseman price $17 million and Rizzo’s preference is to remain.
However the Yankees could just as easily give him a $6 million buyout and look in a distinct direction.
“I’m going to speak with Money and the Yankees and see what they’re pondering,” Rizzo said, referring to general manager Brian Cashman after the team’s 7-6 loss to the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series.
Rizzo’s prefers to stay with the club.
“I feel like I even have so much to supply to this game in a number of other ways,” he said. “I don’t wish to take this [uniform] off.”
Rizzo was in the midst of a play within the fifth inning Wednesday that helped flush the Yankees’ 5-0 lead and send the Dodgers toward the World Series trophy.
Mookie Betts hit a bases-loaded squib grounder to Rizzo that ought to have been the ultimate out. But Rizzo was slow moving to the bottom and that got compounded by the actual fact Gerrit Cole wasn’t covering the bag.
Betts was secure, the Dodgers’ first run scored, and before the inning finished it was 5-5.
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“The balls off the bat against a righty, they’re spinning,” Rizzo said. “I used to be going a technique and the ball kicked one other way, so you will have just got to essentially follow all of it the way in which since you don’t know what the ball goes to do.”
And a breakdown in communication with Cole didn’t help.
“Pitchers are at all times taught to recover from irrespective of what,” Rizzo said. “It was only a weird spinning play.”
Rizzo, who broke two fingers last month and missed the ALDS before returning for the ALCS and World Series, said it was hard saying goodbye to his teammates afterward.
“That’s the last time you’ll ever be with that exact team, these exact people in that moment,” Rizzo said. “The uncertainty of what this clubhouse looks like next 12 months is unquestionably up within the air. But whenever you lose like this, it’s more just giving one another hugs and letting one another know the way much they mean to you.”
