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Trevino

Trevino broke the game open in the first inning with a three-run blast off Daniel Lynch. He later added a base hit to lead off the sixth. The 31-year-old backstop is slashing a respectable .272/.321/.416 with six homers and 23 RBI across 138 plate appearances.

Trevino had a two-run single against Seth Lugo in the fourth inning. He’s up to .264 with a .704 OPS and 20 RBI on the season. Trevino made the All-Star team two years ago with a .248 average and 11 home runs. He’s split time with Austin Wells behind the plate this year, but could grab a bigger share of playing time if Wells doesn’t improve on his .200 average.

Trevino missed a couple of games while dealing with illness. The backstop will hit eighth and start behind the plate against Joe Musgrove and the Padres.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters afterwards that Trevino wasn’t feeling well, which led to him being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning of Thursday afternoon’s showdown. He’s presumably day-to-day for now.

Wells had started the last two games, so he was likely always going to sit in the day game following a night game. However, he is also hitting just .200 in May with three extra-base hits in 10 games. He’s not striking out (13 percent strikeout rate), but he’s also not making the same quality of contact as he was to start the year. Trevino has been much better offensively, slashing .283/.330/.446 with five home runs and 17 RBI in 100 plate appearances. Maybe the Yankees will turn to the veteran more often in the coming weeks.

Cabrera, 25, also sat out Saturday after going 0-for-4 Friday. The infielder will be a bench option with Jon Berti hitting ninth and manning the hot corner for the series finale. Austin Wells also is on the bench Sunday with Jose Trevino lined up as the starting backstop.

New York’s offense mustered only one run despite 11 hits in this one as they went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 men on-base. Trevino was responsible for their lone run with a second-inning homer off Athletics starter Alex Wood. It was his second long ball of the season.

With left-hander JP Sears on the mound, the Yankees will turn to Trevino and give Austin Wells the day off. Trevino also started on Sunday and the Yankees normally have a pretty even split between the two catchers, but Trevino always starts against lefties. Neither catcher is really producing much for fantasy and neither looks likely to wrestle away a larger share of the playing time.

His lone hit came in the second inning, and was an RBI single that drove in Giancarlo Stanton, while his other two RBIs came via groundouts in the seventh and ninth innings. This is nothing more than a blip on the radar for Trevino, who entered the day batting .200 with two RBI.

Trevino (1-for-12, 1 BB) and Austin Wells (3-for-14, 3 BB) have both started four of the Yankees’ first eight games, but neither is doing anything to separate himself from the other. Trevino will continue to play whenever a lefty is on the mound. Wells has gotten four of the six starts versus lefties.