A few days before the start of the 2023 MLB season, the New York Yankees They continue to adjust their starting line up, however their roster has suffered some casualties, a few days ago like those of Harrison Badery the openers Carlos Rodon and Frankie Montayes, now that of a new pitcher is added; Luis Severino.
The information was confirmed this Saturday by the manager Aaron Boone During the Spring Training games, the Dominican pitcher was diagnosed with a low-grade strain on his right lateral muscle and will be absent for a couple of weeks pending further studies.
The place in the rotation that Severino occupied will be replaced by Clarke Schmidtwho will start the second game of the season, while Gerrit Cole will take the mound on Opening Day next March 30.
With Rodón and Montás injured, the Cuban Nestor Cortes and the Dominican Sunday German They will be in charge of completing the New York rotation, on the other hand Boone raised the possibility of including the Dominican john brito as a possible fifth starter.
Increase the injured list
The season has not yet started and those of the Bronx They already have a large disabled list and that it begins to increase, this will be key at the start of the campaign, since of the 5 starters that would make up the possible rotation of the Yankees, two will not be there from the beginning.
Also in offense the outfielder Harrison Bader has oblique issues and won’t be around for Opening Day, while Tommy Kahnle as a reliever he will not be part of the game in the first games of the Big Apple ninth either.
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