Aaron Boone isn’t anxious about Austin Wells.
Sure, the Yankees catcher is within the midst of a hunch.
Sure, that is essentially the most video games he has performed in a single season.
However the crew’s supervisor believes he’ll get proper earlier than the beginning of the postseason.
“He’s missed some pitches, which go together with the ebb and circulate of a season of being a hitter,” Boone stated on Wednesday, earlier than the Yankees fell to the Orioles, 9-7, in The Bronx. “You foul some pitches off that possibly you usually are driving. However nothing overly regarding.”
It has been a troublesome September for Wells, who has a slash line of .123/.194/.215 with a .409 OPS after going 0-for-4 on Wednesday.
He has eight hits all month and is 3-for-his-last-38 with 11 strikeouts.
Boone doesn’t consider Wells’ heavy workload is a consider his struggles.
He has been given days off.
Nonetheless, he has appeared in 112 video games, essentially the most in his skilled profession.
“I don’t assume so. I really feel fairly good,” Wells stated, when requested in regards to the aforementioned workload. “It’s simply baseball. Simply ups and downs. The balls will fall when they should, hopefully. … I really feel good. Really feel like I’m seeing the ball fairly nicely. It’s only a matter of swinging on the proper pitches and never making an attempt to do an excessive amount of.”
It’s been a terrific season general for the rookie catcher, who was a Rookie of the Yr candidate till this latest slide.
He has given the Yankees an influence bat in the midst of the lineup to guard Aaron Decide and has carried out higher defensively than anticipated.
Now, the Yankees hope the 25-year-old backstop can bounce again and once more be a difference-maker in October.
In the event that they do clinch the division quickly, Wells may get much more of a breather, because the subsequent sport of significance wouldn’t be till the ALDS opener on Oct. 5.
“We’ll hold him going frequently. Possibly extra inclined to get an additional day or one thing,” Boone stated. “But when we’re capable of clinch, we’ll get a number of days [to rest]. I’m not too involved about it. Bodily, I believe he’s in a reasonably great place.”
