Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankees: Injury Reports, Predicted Lineups - April 11th, 2022

The revamped and retooled Toronto Blue Jays will travel to Yankee Stadium to face the New York Yankees for both of the teams' second series of the season. Both sides are also looking to get back to the winning column after defeats to the Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox, respectively.

Let's take a look at the injury reports and see how it might affect each team's lineup for the game.

Toronto Blue Jays Injury Report

BNate Pearson pitching for the Blue Jays

Player Name	Status	Reason
Nate Pearson	Out	mononucleosis
Ryan Borucki	Out	right hamstring sprain

The Toronto Blue Jays lineup is healthy ahead of this contest. Pitchers Nate Pearson and Ryan Borucki will likely be back by mid-to-late April.

New York Yankees Injury Report

Domingo German pitching for the New York Yankees

Player Name	Status	Reason
Ben Rortvedt	Out	right oblique strain
Stephen Ridings	Out	right shoulder impingement
Domingo German	Out	right shoulder impingement
Zack Britton	Out	Tommy John surgery

Relievers Zack Britton and Stephen Ridings, along with starter Domingo German, are still on the 60-day injury list. Britton underwent Tommy John surgery in September 2021 and there's still no timetable for his return. Catcher Ben Rortvedt is in the 10-day IL and is slated to return by the end of this month.

Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankees Predicted Lineup

Toronto Blue Jays

Danny Jansen (L) and George Springer (R)

Danny Jansen has been red hot batting .571/.625/1.571 with two home runs and two runs batted in just seven at-bats so far. All-Star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has also been firing on all cylinders with four runs batted in through three games. The Blue Jays' predicted lineup can be seen below.

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	Player Name	2022 Stats
1	George Springer, CF	.308, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 4 R, double
2	Bo Bichette, SS	.308, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 4 R
3	Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 1B	.455, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 3 R
4	Teoscar Hernandez, RF	.250, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 3 R
5	Lourdes Gurriel, LF	3 RBI, 1 R, double
6	Alejandro Kirk, DH	.286, 1 RBI
7	Matt Chapman, 3B	1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 R
8	Danny Jansen, C	.571, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 3 R, double
9	Cavan Biggo, 2B

New York Yankees

Anthony Rizzo has batted in six runs in just three games

Expectations are always high for the Yankees' slugging crew and so far, they haven't disappointed. Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, and Anthony Rizzo came out of the gates blazing with plus .300 batting averages, with Stanton and Rizzo having scored ten runs batted in between them already. Let's take a look at how the batting order will shape up for the Bronx Bombers.

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	Player	2022 Stats
1	Josh Donaldson, 3B	.267, 1 RBI, 1 R
2	Aaron Judge, RF	.308, 2 R, double
3	Anthony Rizzo, 1B	.300, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 3 R
4	Giancarlo Stanton, DH	.385, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 2 R
5	DJ LeMahieu, 2B	1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 R
6	Joey Gallo, LF	3 BB
7	Aaron Hicks, CF	.250, 1 BB
8	Kyle Higashioka, C
9	Isiah Kiner-Falefa, SS	2 R, 1 BB, double

Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankees Pitching Rotations

Toronto Blue Jays

Alek Manoah looks to continue the hot streak that he embarked on the end of last season

1	Jose Berrios
2	Kevin Gausman
3	Hyun-Jin Ryu
4	Alek Manoah
5	Yusei Kikuchi

Alek Manoah will take the mound in the series opener against the Yankees. The 24-year-old starter finished the 2021 season with a 9-2 record and a 3.22 ERA and 1.048 WHIP. Manoah established a dominant run at the end of last season when he won his last four starts, only giving up five earned runs in that timeline.

New York Yankees

1	Gerrit Cole
2	Jordan Montgomery
3	Luis Severino
4	Jameson Taillon
5	Nestor Cortes Jr.

The New York Yankees have chosen Jameson Taillon as their starter for Monday's game against the Blue Jays. Taillon had a serviceable 2021 season with a record of 8-6 with an ERA of 4.30 and 1.206 WHIP in 29 starts. The inconsistencies and injuries in the Yankees' pitching rotation and bullpen didn't help Taillon, but he will look to turn things around this campaign.

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Daniel Santiago is a journalist who has been reporting on baseball at Sportskeeda since 2022. He was drawn towards the sport after the underlying statistics and the analysis surrounding it grabbed his attention.

Daniel particularly enjoys furnishing reports about historic events in baseball and analyzing the game through a statistic-based outlook, based on Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference. This is in line with how he enjoyed watching baseball as a pastime. As a writer, he is very particular about cross-checking from reputable sources and doing his due diligence.

He became a lifelong Hideki Matsui fan after his exploits in the 2009 World Series for the New York Yankees. Among the current generation, Daniel's favorites include Shohei Ohtani and Jung Hoo Lee. Daniel is a huge follower of Asian baseball and both Ohtani and Lee have been in the top echelon of their respective leagues during their time with the NPB and KBO.

His favorite moment as a baseball fan was the final at-bat of the 2023 World Baseball Classic between Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout. He believes there aren't many words to fittingly describe the intensity of the moment.

As an avid sports fan, Daniel watches other sports and Esports when not writing about baseball.

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Edited by Chaitanya Sharma