How Yankees reliever feels after getting scratched from recent spring outing
- The New York Yankees are facing a significant number of injuries during spring training, impacting key players like Giancarlo Stanton and their pitching rotation, as of Sunday.
- The Yankees' pitching staff was already down two of its top three rotation starters, and a third starter was scheduled to miss a spring start on Monday due to shoulder soreness, according to Manager Aaron Boone.
- Gerrit Cole, entering the sixth season of his nine-year, $324 million contract, will miss the entire campaign after feeling discomfort in his pitching elbow and undergoing Tommy John surgery.
- In 2024, Luis Gil had a high-grade right lat strain and was shut down on March 3rd, sidelining him for at least six weeks and likely impacting his availability for the start of the season.
- Clarke Schmidt exited a Spring Game with shoulder soreness, casting doubt on his availability for the start of the season, while Leiter Jr. Clarified that his back issue, which arose during warm-ups, would not have prevented him from pitching in the regular season.
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Twins reliever Justin Topa 'feeling comfortable' after shoulder flare up
BRADENTON, Fla. — Amid a flurry of disappointing injury news the past couple of days, the Twins actually saw a positive on the health front Monday when Justin Topa got back on the mound in a major league game for the first time in nearly two weeks. Topa was slowed in camp by shoulder tightness, which cropped up during the Twins’ spring training game on March 5. After taking a day off, he started resuming activities, going about a week total, he …

Yankees RHP Clarke Schmidt scratched from spring training start because of shoulder soreness
By The Associated Press New York Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt has been scratched from his Grapefruit League start against Toronto on Monday. Schmidt is dealing with some shoulder soreness, manager Aaron Boone told reporters in Florida. Schmidt is going to have a bullpen session instead of facing the Blue Jays. The 29-year-old Schmidt went 5-5 with a 2.85 ERA in 16 starts for the Yankees last season. New York has been hit hard by injuries …
Yanks scratch Schmidt (shoulder) from next start
New York Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt, 29, who went 5-5 with a 2.85 ERA in 16 starts for the Yankees last year, was scratched from his Grapefruit League start against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday while he deals with some shoulder soreness.
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