Yankees waste no time delivering worse Jazz Chisholm injury news after roster move

Jazz Chisholm left Tuesday's win over the Baltimore Orioles with what the New York Yankees called "right flank discomfort." It was a clear attempt to divert everyone's attention from "oblique" so they couldn't assume the worst. Well played, but the fans aren't that dumb!

Jazz was left out of Wednesday's lineup and then placed on the injured list Friday as the Yankees promoted top prospect Jorbit Vivas in his place. On Thursday, Chisholm commented on his injury and said he didn't expect to miss a ton of time and that he was "fine." The Yankees largely remained mum outside of Aaron Boone responding "I don't know about that" to Chisholm's take.

Regardless of any Yankees injury suituation, the ailment is always worse than initially believed. And that, of course, was the case with Jazz just hours after his IL designation Friday.

Aaron Boone spoke to the media before the series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays and revealed Chisholm's oblique strain was "high grade" and the slugger could miss 4-to-6 weeks of action.

Jazz Chisholm Injury News: Yankees slugger to miss 4-6 weeks

In the meantime, the Yankees will hopefully get more consistent looks at Oswald Peraza and Vivas to see if either can make an impact and convince the team not to make a momentous trade deadline acquisition.

Though Chisholm has certainly an asset, he won't be a massive loss as the Yankees endure an offensive surge. He's been struggling himself, batting just .181 and not exactly being much of a contributor at all since April 3.

He'll be needed for the long haul, but for now the Yankees have the positional flexibility not to worry about Chisholm taking all the time he needs on the injured list. The offense is being carried by Aaron Judge, Paul Goldschmidt, Trent Grisham and Ben Rice, and the supporting cast beyond them hasn't exactly mattered.

Boone mentioned Chisholm is a "quick healer" so perhaps the timeline doesn't remain vague and ominous. Nonetheless, this should be used as another instance of the Yankees seeing what they have in other players so they can set themselves up to make the proper roster moves when games matter the most.