{"id":117486,"date":"2026-03-31T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=117486"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:59:46","slug":"yankees-carlos-rodon-reports-hamstring-tightness-during-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/03\/31\/yankees-carlos-rodon-reports-hamstring-tightness-during-rehab\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Starter Suffers Potential New Injury During Rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees starter <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodonca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a> reported tightness in his right hamstring while going through his throwing program on Tuesday, manager <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/booneaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Boone<\/a> said. It could be a worrisome development for an already shorthanded <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/15\/yankees-starting-rotation-will-dominate-2026\/\" target=\"_self\">Yankees rotation<\/a>. Boone commented, &#8220;We&#8217;ll see what we have there.&#8221; The left-hander was preparing for an early April rehab assignment as he continues his recovery from offseason elbow surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 610px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBSUBnkO9O\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3600px; aspect-ratio: 3600\/2400;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h2>Carlos Rod\u00f3n Reports Hamstring Tightness During Rehab Assignment Prep<\/h2>\n<p>The Yankees were planning on getting Rod\u00f3n back sooner rather than later, as his recovery seemed to be going well. It would have been one of two expected boosts to the staff. <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/colege01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerrit Cole<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/03\/25\/what-should-the-yankees-expect-from-gerrit-cole-in-2026\/\" target=\"_self\">on track to return<\/a> from Tommy John surgery as summer approaches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carlos Rod\u00f3n experienced right hamstring tightness while going through his throwing program today, Aaron Boone said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see what we have there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Hoch \u26be\ufe0f (@BryanHoch) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/2039128131446231449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Rod\u00f3n&#8217;s Yankees tenure has been uneven, his performance in the past two seasons has made him one of the team&#8217;s essential starters. In 2024, he went 16-9 with a 3.96 ERA, a 1.223 WHIP, and 195 strikeouts in 175 innings of work. It was a huge improvement from his first year in the Bronx, where injuries limited him to 64 1\/3 innings, and he had a 6.85 ERA. Last season, Rod\u00f3n was even better. He pitched to an 18-9 record with a 3.09 ERA, 1.049 WHIP, and 203 strikeouts in 195 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the improvement in the regular season, Rod\u00f3n has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/10\/08\/yankees-must-combat-carlos-rodon-postseason-struggles\/\" target=\"_self\">mostly rocky in the postseason<\/a> as a Yankee. Aside from two good starts against the Cleveland Guardians in the 2024 American League Championship Series, it&#8217;s been rough going in October. In eight career postseason starts (including two with the Chicago White Sox), Rod\u00f3n owns an ERA of 7.53.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Rod\u00f3n&#8217;s occasional volatility, he is an essential piece for the Yankees. New York knew early on in the offseason that they would not have him by Opening Day, along with shortstop <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/volpean01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Volpe<\/a>, who is recovering from offseason shoulder surgery and will begin a rehab assignment in mid-April. But with Rod\u00f3n potentially out even longer now, the Yankees would have to keep getting by with less experienced arms behind current ace <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/friedma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Fried<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees starter Carlos Rod\u00f3n reported tightness in his right hamstring while going through his throwing program on Tuesday, manager Aaron Boone said. It could be a worrisome development for an already shorthanded Yankees rotation. Boone commented, &#8220;We&#8217;ll see what we have there.&#8221; The left-hander was preparing for an early April rehab assignment as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":107550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[1787,3461,197,611,218],"class_list":["post-117486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-boone","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-max-fried"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117520,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117486\/revisions\/117520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}