March 8: According to MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch, the results of Cole’s initial diagnostic tests have been distributed, and the right-hander is now in the process of seeking a second opinion. While Cole told reporters (including Hoch) that he is “concerned” about his elbow, the 2023 AL Cy Young winner also expressed a bit of optimism. “I’ve still got some hope,” he said. Per Hoch, Cole and the Yankees expect to know more about the status of his elbow in the next few days.
March 7: Gerrit Cole is heading for “diagnostic tests” on his throwing elbow, reports Jon Morosi of the MLB Network. It’s not currently clear whether the Yankees fear a significant injury, or if the testing is more precautionary in nature. In either case, it’s certainly not encouraging news after Cole missed the first couple months of 2024 with elbow inflammation.
It was almost exactly one year ago today that Yankees skipper Aaron Boone revealed that Cole was headed for an MRI. The 2023 Cy Young winner was having difficulty recovering between throwing sessions. Testing didn’t reveal any structural damage, but an inflammation diagnosis necessitated a month-long shutdown. Cole began the season on the 60-day injured list; he didn’t make his season debut until June 19.
Cole stayed healthy for the remainder of the season, aside from one skipped start due to what the team termed general body soreness. He turned in a 3.41 earned run average across 17 starts. While he struggled over his first few outings, Cole was dominant from the beginning of August through the end of the regular season. He turned in a 2.25 ERA with a 26% strikeout rate while holding opponents to a .182/.255/.248 slash line over his final 10 appearances.
The 34-year-old righty took the ball another five times in the postseason. He worked to a 2.17 ERA across 29 playoff innings, but his strikeout rate in October plummeted to a meager 17.7% clip. After the season, he and the Yankees were faced with a decision on his contract. Cole decided to opt out of the remaining four years and $144MM on his nine-year deal. He hoped the Yanks would override that by preemptively triggering a $36MM club option for 2029. The team declined to do so but allowed him to rescind the opt-out and remain with the team on his original contract.
Cole has taken the ball twice during Spring Training. He looked sharp in his first appearance, working 3 1/3 innings of one-run ball with five strikeouts on February 28. The Twins torched him for six runs on five hits (including a pair of homers) over 2 2/3 frames yesterday. That alone isn’t cause for concern — Spring Training results are largely immaterial — but Cole evidently hasn’t felt completely healthy. His fastball has averaged 95.5 MPH during his spring work, according to Brooks Baseball. That’s around where it sat last March, a bit below the 97 MPH velocity he’d shown in previous Spring Trainings.
The Yankees won’t have much to report until they receive the imaging results. Even if there’s no structural damage, it seems likely Cole will begin the season on the injured list. The Yanks already lost 2024 Rookie of the Year Luis Gil to a severe lat strain. GM Brian Cashman said on Thursday that the Yankees anticipate an absence of at least three months for the young right-hander (relayed by Greg Joyce of The New York Post). Depth starter JT Brubaker broke three ribs trying to dodge a comebacker early in camp.
New York signed Max Fried to an eight-year, $218MM free agent deal. He’ll probably get the ball on Opening Day. Clarke Schmidt and Carlos Rodón will follow in the rotation. Marcus Stroman, who entered camp sixth on the depth chart, now projects as the fourth starter. A season-opening IL stint could draw Will Warren or out-of-options righty Yoendrys Gómez into the rotation. New York has Carlos Carrasco and Allan Winans in camp as non-roster invitees.
If Cole winds up missing a decent chunk of time, the Yanks could look to a late free agent acquisition. Veteran innings eater Kyle Gibson remains unsigned; he’s throwing side sessions to stay loose in advance of his age-37 season. Swingman Spencer Turnbull has a spotty injury history but pitched well in 54 1/3 innings for the Phillies last year. Patrick Corbin and former Yankee Lance Lynn are also still free agents.
In a smaller injury development, the Yanks announced this morning that reliever Tyler Matzek sustained a mild right oblique strain (link via Bryan Hoch of MLB.com). The veteran southpaw could resume throwing early next week, but the injury takes him out of consideration for the Opening Day roster. Matzek is in camp as a non-roster invitee. He has tossed one scoreless inning.
Hopefully he will still be able to cover first base with no problems.
Darren: Or teach judge how to play CF.
Stroman will cover 1b as a starter just like he said
Stroman will do anything to play 140 innings this year
Or teach Judge to hit in October.
Hahahaha yep. Good luck. They need. Big G to be healthy for the post season. Maybe they can get there without him.
@svenger65- give me a price for Roberts. I would love to have em’play some center and 2nd base. Unless you guys wanna hang on to him. Lmk.
Damn from the top rope
Made me laugh. That’s a good memory.
Or grow a beard.
If he winds up out a while, Yanks off year would be something like 88 wins and a WC berth. Teams in any other pro sport would not be able to simply outspend their way past these things b/c of MLB obsession with geographic location for making postseason.
The only obsession with geographic location comes from National Sportsball Media and dumb jocks playing Sportsball Mash-Up.
cwsOverhaul: Nobody decides who plays in the postseason based on geography. Only the teams themselves decide that.
Would expect that from a Mets fan who should benefit moving forward. They are among the handful of teams that would have to be poorly run to not make postseason almost every year.
Your post is what I expect from a paranoid nutjob who spews conspiracy theories without any evidence.
Everything isn’t about the teams people follow and root for.
Not really how I envisioned my morning, hearing about all this imaging for Cole. This truly sucks!
I can’t believe all of the muscle injuries, tears, etc., through out the entire major leagues!!!
The old timers never had this many injuries in Spring Training!!!
Has everybody forgotten what proper training is over the course of an off season set on?????
This is ridiculous!!!
Huge salaries has made everybody Soft!!!!!
Has everybody forgotten what proper training is
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I’ve read 1,000 articles on training, and there is no consensus on what constitutes “proper” training. Some folks advocate for training 6x a week, and others 2-3x a week.
Or higher weights v more reps, etc.
It’s most likely the co vid shots they were all forced to get. They are all deteriorating and breaking down from the shots. Can’t heat or recover & stay physically healthy.
Was it inflammation in his pointing arm?
fathers, hug your pitchers today.
Because once they’re down they never come back
Good thing he opted out…
Fan – Yeah the decision to keep him was easily the worst Cashman made in the past few years. They had a chance to get out from under that ridiculous contract and get some payroll relief, and they blew it.
The hatred you and other Red Sox fans have towards Cole is so weird and manufactured. Cole’s contract is very reasonable for an ace. Why would a contending team willingly let their best pitcher walk just to clear payroll?
I don’t hate Cole. I do think he’s a tool and a cheater. The irony of Yankee fans calling Bregman a cheater is quite ironic given their own history and who wears pinstripes right now. Glad you have him, and extended him. That’ll come in handy when he’s out for tj surgery. I don’t wish that on injury on anyone though. This one is not a surprise to anyone but the yanks.
He was indeed a cheater in regards to spider tack at least. However, after the banning of the substance he still won a Cy Young. Therefore, you and Manoah can both cry harder.
@Ronk325 — “Cole’s contract is very reasonable for an ace”.
Yes, Boras is known for his reasonable contracts. 9/324M is reasonable for an ace? Yes, the largest contract ever for a starting pitcher (at the time — since has been eclipsed by Yamamoto) is a “reasonable contract”. LOL. The front end has been worth it, but considering there’s still 4/144M left, and he looks like a shell of the pitcher that signed, due to injury – is that a reasonable contract? It would have been a reasonable contract NYY opted out and not add another year, but c’est la vie.
The Yankees didn’t add a year.
And poor stupid billionaire Steinbrenner being swindled by that evil Boras! However do the Yankees make a profit???
@pt57 — It being a “reasonable contract” and it being an affordable contract by the purchaser is not the same. Like most big spenders, they will operate with dead contracts just fine.
No one is crying, but carry on.
Every top of the market contract looks like an overpay at first. Any team would have signed Cole for 4/$144MM this offseason if given the chance. There is no indication of Cole being past his prime. He dealt with an elbow injury last year. A year after winning the Cy Young.
@Ronk325 — I think you’re confusing Wheeler for Cole, who was coming off a sore elbow and missing time for fatigue during the season. No, NYY is one of the few teams that see a guy missing time for a sore elbow (twice in 2 years) and think they’re going to buck the trend, and sign them to a record deal (Fried). To say that “any team” would see that and no be hesitant is not true. Blake Snell won the Cy and what kind of deal did he get from SF last year (not talking about his LAD deal based on 2024 performance)?
Cole for Wheeler*
What do Wheeler, Fried, or Snell have to do with Cole’s contract and the Yankees decision to keep him? I wasn’t confused about anything until you started speaking in riddles
If you actually knew Fever, you would know he is more critical of the Red Sox than the Yankees.
In all honesty, however, Cole has been a TJ surgery waiting to happen since he signed that original deal.
@ronk
Like many fans, you are basing value of a player, at least partially, on past performance. GM’s pay for future performance.
Cole thought he could get more than 4/144 on the open market. It didn’t take long for him to realize that wasn’t going to happen. Cashman did him a solid by allowing him to opt back in to his original contract. If he hadn’t, it’s quite possible Cole, with his injury history, would have been forced to sign a prove it 1-year plus option contract.
No, I think Cole and Boras were just hoping to get the Yankees to pick up the additional year. When that didn’t happen Cole was fine with honoring the existing deal. You’re delusional if you think Cole would have had to settle for a prove it deal if he hit the open market
Ummmm Bregman IS a cheater.
@Fever
Yeah that’s what all teams looking to contend do going into the off-season. Try to get salary relief.
Knicks – All teams want the best years of top free agents without having to pay through the nose for their anticipated late-30’s decline years.
The Yankees had that opportunity, and blew it. They already got his Age 29-33 seasons. Then they decided to pay for his Age 34-37 seasons. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
It was the dumbest of decisions.
Disagree, Fever. Cole is still an ace, and we would have had to pay for yet another big pitcher regardless without any real guarantee of landing one. Locking him in for that price, a price he may have exceeded on the market btw, wasn’t dumb at all.
Injuries are going to happen with pitchers regardless of age, look around the league right now.
I also feel like Cole is the type like a Verlander who’ll understand how to make the necessary pivots to adjust to situations. He k he did already post sticky tack era, and last season’s injury. We’ll see if this injury wipes out half that contract, but we’ll also see if I’m right about Cole’s abilities.
Sal – I hope you’re right because I hate seeing any pitcher’s career affected by injuries.
But it’s very rare for a pitcher to miss that much time with that kind of injury, and not end up needing surgery down the road.
And there was plenty of good pitchers that were available for much less money-wise and years-wise.
To me it was only Burnes on that level and it sounds like he was always going to Arizona. I rate Snell lower than Cole, and then Fried was next and we got him so I think we did fine keeping Cole in that scenario. Everyone else was lower, though I wouldn’t have minded Flaherty or Kikuchi in place of Fried to save money.
Cole has been worth his contract and last year after the opt out you don’t go cheap after trading for Juan Soto.
Thoughts and prayers to those who drafted early and are running the gauntlet.
I’ll never understand why people do drafts so early.
If you’re lucky injuries will hit others and not you.
1-Any player can get injured at any time. Before ST, I assume that at least one or two other big names will have an issue.
2-It’s random. An injury is just as likely to you as to someone else.
3-It’s more fun, at least for me. By late March, with enough drafts, the Yahoo leagues can auto-draft themselves with little advantage one way or another. If you are among the first to draft, you are a bit more dependent on your own analysis.
Exactly. We’re waiting as long as we can.
With the Japan games the last two seasons, a lot leagues want to get out in front of those.
Oh Oh.
Just need to use pitching machines instead of humans or have them all throw underhand.
I’m imagining Rich Hill transitioning into an underhand machine and stretching out the legacy of ol’ Dick Mountain for another 20 years. What a blessing it would be.
Stroman is going to lead the team in innings and wins.
Hope so!
I would say max fried gets 190 innings and 18 dubs
Fried has injury history as well. Sox fans are probably hoping he’s next to go.
No, not happy. But if an injury has to happen…..
Karen, no reasonable fan would wish injury on anyone. An even lower blow would be a statement such as yours which makes zero sense.
Baseball fans hope to beat the other team‘s best players and the beat them down hard. Not hoping for injuries.
GaryRedSoxxWarriors
Well, I have to be honest. I consider myself reasonable, but I’m not hating the Yankees injuries at all…
Admittedly, that’s quite a bit different than wishing injury upon another player or team. Agree?
Fair enough
I do oddly think Stroman will re-establish himself as a dominant pitcher and then we’ll all be in a pickle- do we still try to flip him by the deadline for anything reasonable and whatever salary relief is left? Do we try to hold onto him, work it out relationship-wise and hope he falls back in love with being a Yankee *and* produces? Is it all an illusion and he will break down within a month and we do not want him, he’s basically out to pasture at a professional level or he has to embrace converting into a relief pitcher?
Who knows!
But here’s to hoping we get a WS title and Stroman sticks around, quiet-ish-ly going 19-7-8 w/ a 3.25 ERA or something….
TrillionaireTeamOperator:
No offense, but can I have some of what you’re smoking?
That’s not smoking. Sounds like something harder than weed.
With a better defense behind him, I think he has a better year too.
And tantrums.
Enough already. They already have like 6-7 IL candidates
Fernando: And that’s just today.
Well that ain’t inspiring…
Not sure leaving him out there for a 28-pitch inning (or whatever it was) was a wise decision yesterday.
That is stupid
Volpe threw away that easy DP ball. That’s when the trouble started. But the guy is going to go 28 pitches throwing his normal program anyway. And I believe the first was pretty low count.
Not a bad point Clip especially because it sounds like they already knew he was having trouble recovering between starts. Not good news either way!
Last year when the Yankees lost Cole for a good chunk of the season Gil and Schmidt both stepped up.
Now Gil is out for 3 months and Schmidt has an “issue”.
They were able to have those 2 young pitchers step up to compensate for Cole being out…do they give Warren his chance despite him getting lit up like a Christmas tree the past few years? Who knows, he’s looked good thus far in spring training. Good thing they signed Max Fried and didn’t trade Stroman. These injuries with this team are atrocious considering their resources/bankroll.
Oh yeah, imo they still need a 3B. Hopefully a trade goes down for someone who is at least productive and doesn’t spend decent time on the IL.
Was Blake MIA?
Hot sports opinion. Regulate HGH. These injuries are getting out of hand
Hp— BINGO! You called it 100%.
Just give em all cocaine before the game.. see what happens.
Another one bites the dust
Remember when he opted out and said just kidding. He should be thankful the Yankees took him back at all. They could’ve said thanks for the good 5 years but see ya
Irrelevant. He would’ve gotten paid elsewhere and some other teams fans would be sweating bullets instead tonight.
some other teams fans would be sweating bullets
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Some other teams would’ve given him a physical.
@amk1920 Bringing Cole back at 4/$144m was such a Cashman thing to do after trading away pitchers the previous seasons as if he was handing out jellybeans to a kindergarten class.
Marcus Stroman YOU are the staff ace
During the Spring, MLBTR should be renamed “General Hospital”.
So should the regular season. And the post-season. If you look at a pitcher cross-eyed they go down with an elbow injury.
Mustard Tiger, SO true! Today’s athletes are a total disgrace. Especially baseball players. A no contact sport, and they can’t even make it through Spring Training. They should’ve signed Corbin Burnes and moved on from Cole. Real aces hold 5-0 leads, and overcome errors. The Yankees are simply a train wreck.
To say baseball players are a total disgrace is just absurd. What is a total disgrace is the emphasis put on velocity, spin rate, etc. on pitchers since they first picked up a ball. It’s not the players fault they get injured, the over use of analytics is the more likely culprit.
Keena, the demands placed on pitchers’ arms these days are brutal. The ones that don’t get injured are the exceptions.
ghost, blaming “analytics” is silly since they’ve really existed in one form or another for a century or more. It’s simply the progression of things as more information becomes available.
Pitchers have always tried to throw harder and make the ball move as much as possible. Now teams simply have more advanced tools to determine how to do those things.
The human body has its limits, and we’re bumping up against them.
gbs42… Understood, Sir. I’m just frustrated beyond belief that the New York Yankees are ALWAYS the most injured team in baseball. To make matters worse, we ABSOLUTELY have the resources to make sure we’re extremely deep, like the Dodgers, but an effing owner too damn cheap to go out and get some solid backups for when these inevitable injuries occur. I’m sorry for bitching about it, but I’m just sick and tired of sports, and baseball in particular. I think I just need to sit out for a few years and see if I get my interest in the Yankees back. As long as The Three Stooges, Hal, Cash and Boone are running the show, I feel absolutely hopeless, and disinterested.
MASH Unit (And We Don’t Mean The Baseballs)
Poor Raffy
Projected HR just went down by like five.
Cole TJ coming? That would end the Yankees season before it begins.
Pads Fans, the Yankees season is already over. As long as cheap lil Hal owns this team, we will never be celebrating a Yankees World Series title.
That’s never good. Rarely do you hear “elbow imaging came back fine”.
Wonder if Cole and his camp knew the reality and tried to get more opting out, knowing the elbow wasn’t completely right. Didn’t work out but knowing Boras, to him and Cole it might have been worth a shot. Good job on the Yankees part not biting.
His motion was all over the place the other night. I’m hoping it’s just from adjusting and he’s hitting some dead arm time. But who knows. We’re in an era Tommy John should get residuals on his surgery naming rights.
I don’t think this is the end of his career or anything, but he looked rough out there and could require some serious time off/medical intervention and we’d be in for a long lay off- hopefully short enough that he could come back for the stretch run into the post season…. and I would like to think we have the internal options to spot Cole while he’s on the IL, rather than going out and spending more, being stuck with a redundant extra player…
His mechanics were out of whack.
Stroman moves up to #4 starter, great news for Yankee fans everywhere!
Is very bad to steal Jobu’s Rum…is very bad
Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill!!
Marcus Stroman out there playing voodoo doll on all his teammates just cuz he don’t wanna be an RP.
I do believe in Stroman Voodoo.
I do too, and I believe in Stroman doodoo.
Spaghetti, uh-oh
An arm that’s turned into spaghetti.
Kudos to him for what he managed to do last season, coming back from that elbow injury after just a month and then a dominant season and postseason. He’s one of the few success elbow rehab stories of that nature that I can ever recall. Hope the guy is OK and can play most of this season,
They went to the WS, so it wasn’t for nothing if it simply delayed TJ surgery. Temporary success it seems.
Hope Cole creates a positive image.
This team is a dumpster fire right now. If Cole’s injury becomes anything serious, the best thing the Yankees can do this year is SELL like crazy at the deadline. REBUILD to win TITLES…..not just scrape into the playoffs to lose yearly. Build the team the RIGHT way.
YPhan42, YES, exactly right. Trade these trashy, brittle, heartless losers, and rebuild.
Can we let the season start? Feels early to say if a team is good or bad this year
Indeed, you’ve nailed it as a diehard fan. The Yankees can’t be serious about their state of the World. When was the last time they were a credible threat to make the World Series
2024.
I see what you did there
Were they not in the World Series last year? Did I miss something? I don’t love the way the team is constructed but damn give them a chance.
Without Soto, last years team doesn’t even make the playoffs.
Devers OPS just dropped 100 points
Not good news. You never hear them come back and say “Imaging came back great! He will be back in the rotation on his next turn.” Its always, “There is no tear, so we feel its best to take the rest route and we will come back and revisit it in 3 months.” 3 months and 1 day later they are in for TJ surgery.
Geez
Will there be any healthy pitchers left by opening day, or will it be t-ball?
Trying to prove that he can do TJS better than Manoah.
Uh oh
Spaghett
io.
Silver
Patrick corbin is the poster child for a horrible long term contract
Corbin had tjs surgery and all one offseason mlbtr did was to push Corbin to a large Fa agent contract.
Boone is going to set up some pickup basketball games with Coke and the rest of the Yankees
The white powdered kind? Or the soft drink?
Or maybe Phil Coke
Imagine that.
The bothersome check elbow light.
Stroman will focus more on the rubber.
Can the Yankees just forfeit the entire season, not even play, and just send ALL players for Tommy John Surgery right here and now? This team is absolutely laughable. I wonder if Celtics softy, Kristaps Porzingis is also a pitcher… he’d fit in FANTASTIC with the Yankees. DUMPSTER FIRE.
Your Sportsball Mash-Up sounds like a steaming pile of s#!t. Yankee fans don’t give two shakes about NBA.
A pitcher’s arm needs rest. However if they have to keep using it to maintain their velocity that creates an issue. A pitcher who doesn’t require extra velocity wouldn’t need a weighted baseball.
If Cole is out for a month or two that is good news. If they lose him for 3 months or more, combined with Gil and they may be in a hole to cost them the division but not a wild card spot.
My you are confident in your NYY. That team has holes even if every player on the roster was 100% healthy on opening day, and they’re not anywhere close.
Bellinger and Fried need to both have excellent seasons to keep the team as a legitimate playoff contender as it stands right now.
The Department of Pitching Efficiency has deemed him unnecessary. Ticket prices will be lowered 3 cents.
This Yankee team is severely fragile
Is this Yankee team getting Close to the Edge?
Roundabout that time
I’ve seen all good people (on the IL).
Spring training injuries. I can take it or Leave It
They rely on the over 30 crowd to be their best players. More than any other team. Injuries have to be expected.
Trevor Bauer says hey.
Haha
Cmon man. At least be creative and more current. Try Julio Urias next time.
Wow, I’d already forgotten Urias existed
Schmidt is also injured and won’t pitch until 4/3 per Boone.
He’d only miss one turn as the Yankees have an off-day built into their first homestand.
I’m not Yankee fan, but I really hate to see all these players having arm issues like this. It’s already been concluded that the quest for velocity is the reason for these constant injuries in pitchers. Movement and location have always been more important. Guys like Corbin Burnes, who I think has had certain numbers of his drop precisely because he has backed off a little on velocity, are going to be the ones who stay healthy, and effective for years to come.
The baseball gods own the Yankees.
Cole isnt the only pitcher the Yankees need to be concerned with. Max Fried has spent time on the IL twice the last two seasons with arm issues.
And Carlos Rodon.
This site should add the list of IL players by team to the tool box or would that be too much data entry. Lol.
Disasterous. Hope it’s not the worst case
I’m wondering if the Yankees asked Cole to undergo a physical before they allowed Cole to rescind his opt-out?
This is pure 20/20 hindsight, but given his 22/10 K/W in 29 playoff IPs, that would be at least a minor concern. Knowing he had the opt-out decision coming up, which was 50/50, a deep dive into his arm might have shown nothing, or shown something concerning.
There is no way Boras did not have Cole take an independent, third-party physical before electing to opt-out.
FWIW, I’ve never heard Cole talk like that. He’s seems very concerned. I hate the NYY, but good luck to him.
That’s not very nice Joe. Hate is a strong word.
It’s real funny until someone loses an eye. Except the Yankees. Still funny
I must be an absolute genius for predicting this.
Or….
It’s just freaking obvious this was going to happen. Could’ve let him walk after he opted out but Cashman needed to lock up that dead money for the next decade.
Time to replace Gerrit Cole with Kyle Gibson
Sea would love to unload Castillo’s contract for a young cheap bat.
Ditto SD — Cease.
Not good… possibly no Cole/ Stanton/Gil for awhile.. Attention Redsox… games in April just as important as ones in September!!!
Cole seems worried, not great. Next up is Will Warren and cookie carrasco? Should we sign someone like the childhood yankee fan Lance Lynn? He had a surprisingly decent season in 24 with limited appearances
It’s the hope that kills you. Womp womp.
Ya’ll keep singing abt how nothing’s wrong with the game
Meanwhile more & more pitchers go down every single day with significant injuries. We are in wk 2 of ST. Still 3 wks from OD
Pretty soon mlb will be nothing but pitchers from korea & mexico bc everyone else will be on the DL. But everything’s fine, and im just crazy
Why do you assume all the white players will be the ones injured?
Thats probably the incorrect way to read his post but ok. What he likely meant was in the USA pitchers are throwing their arms out so they would need to fill their rosters by grabbing people from Mexico and Japans leagues.. nothing to do with race
@begamin
thanks
cant believe someone actually thought i was talking about race
Pitching 101 from the good ole days. Throw the baseball until your arm started to get tired, rest it for how many days your arm “tells you to” eventually throwing 150 pitchers is no problem. The ace of every team at every level felt like they failed if they didn’t have a complete game.
“I’ve still got some hope” sounds like he knows it’s really bad.
There was almost no chance him avoiding surgery last year wasn’t going to come back to haunt him. And here we are.
Imagine that!
Should have signed Buehler
Instructions from the pitching lab: throw the ball like this, then see Doctor that, then come back to our pitching lab recovery area.
If a pitching lab instructor teaches a pitch incorrectly will anyone find out?
Pitching 101 from the old days. Throw a baseball until your arm gets tired. Rest for as many days as your arm feels it needs to be. Eventually the arm will build up, some it will be 200 pitches, others 150. Every ace of the team at every level felt like they failed if they didn’t complete a game. Pitchers did this for decades. If you pushed your limits you may have killed your dream and even ruined your life. There’s no surgery to fix you up. I can tell you one thing right now if I was 10 years old and someone had a radar gun on me, I would either blow my arm out or never develop as a pitcher. The guys who don’t have to worry about velocity and the radar gun are fine but that’s 1 in a million.
The news can’t be good if he’s seeking a second opinion. Nobody who gets a clean bill of health needs another opinion.
If you do not like the second opinion, there is always a third opinion….
If surgery, then every stater moves up one spot in rotation.
Strohman is an adequate #5 Starter.
SportsFan0000: But STROMAN is probably better.
With Cole & Gil out for indefinite period of time Cashman might want to contact Posey & see what it would take to get 1-2 of the young SP
Stroman probably making sure everyone knows how valuable a SP he is now
Probably Dominguez.
The dude is so lucky that Cashman allowed him to rescind his opt-out. If anything goes wrong, he will likely be 36 before he pitches again.
The Yankees and Orioles should both start to think about picking up Kyle Gibson, he’s a lot better than either club’s fifth starter options.