‘Real Strain or a Way to Limit His Innings?’ – Yankees Fans Furious Over Nestor Cortes’ Being on the Injured List; Label Groin Strain as ‘Phantom Injury’

Fans can support and get brutal at the same time. What’s more, is, the New York Yankees fans can get all in for supporting their players. But when it comes to the management, they have started to become brutal with their comments. This time, the comments are because of team’s starter Nestor Cortes on the injured list.

Recently, Yankees fans made their frustration clear to the management when they booed the owner, Hal Steinbrenner, and general manager Brian Cashman during Paul O’Neill’s jersey retirement ceremony. Moreover, Cashman’s contract with the New York Yankees is about to end, and the fans have made it pretty clear that they want him gone.

The team is struggling this season, and when Nestor Cortes got put on the injured list, fans thought it was a “phantom injury.” Yankees won yesterday’s match against the Oakland Athletics with a huge difference of 13-4.

Is the fans’ anger directed only towards Nestor Cortes or the team’s management as well?

This time, fans have not spared anyone with the Yankees’ ongoing below-par play. Yankees starter Nestor Cortes got placed on the injured list because of a groin injury.

Cortes getting on the injured list got backdate to 22nd, which means if he’s fit enough, he’ll be able to come back by September 6. However, no specific time frame is yet given by the team for which Nestor will be missing games. Also, the fans think that it is just a ruse to keep him off the field. Greg Weissert will be called up from the minors to take Cortes’ place until he is fit enough to come back. 

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Anyway, the fans are getting frustrated with so many players on the injured list. Reason for the same looks like the team’s play going downhill ever since the second half of this season of Major League Baseball.

Do Yankees fans think Cortes on Injury List is a ploy?

One of the fans thinks that only Nestor would choose to have a fake injury on his “groin”

Other posted a video of two people dancing,

Another fan wanted to fire the team’s manager, Aaron Boone.

At this point, fans can only hope that their team makes a comeback from the inferior play.

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