Gerrit Cole was arguably the most dominant pitcher in all of Major League Baseball last season for the New York Yankees and earned the American League Cy Young Award as a result. But it looks like he is now facing a pretty concerning injury situation.
On Monday morning, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced a pretty concerning situation regarding the team’s ace pitcher, telling reporters that Gerrit Cole was getting an MRI on his right elbow.
“Yankees ace Gerrit Cole will have an MRI on his right elbow, manager Aaron Boone told reporters today. Cole is coming off winning the American League Cy Young Award and has had difficulty bouncing back between spring training starts, Boone said,” Passan said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
Yankees ace Gerrit Cole will have an MRI on his right elbow, manager Aaron Boone told reporters today. Cole is coming off winning the American League Cy Young Award and has had difficulty bouncing back between spring training starts, Boone said.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) March 11, 2024
Obviously, we don’t know the details of this potential injury until after the MRI, but it certainly sounds like brutal news for the Yankees, and the Major League Baseball world had a lot to say about it on social media.
Man hopefully it’s nothing but hate that for Cole. One of the best in the game. https://t.co/jsLbsOw2rv
— Fear the Chop Talk (@FeartheChopTalk) March 11, 2024
Welp. It was a fun offseason! https://t.co/aiG1fzk3BF
— Ariel Epstein (@ArielEpstein) March 11, 2024
Cancel the season immediately https://t.co/ZgnfFdqx6G
— Izzy (@izzzyklicsu) March 11, 2024
Cole is coming off the best pitched season by a Yankees pitcher by rWAR (7.4) since Andy Pettitte posted 8.4 in 1997. https://t.co/fU1rkuoXHq
— Louis Addeo-Weiss (@addeo_louis00) March 11, 2024
Today is NFL free agency day im gonna pretend i didnt see this! https://t.co/ebtKYPfAUv
— Scott Messina (@TheScottyMoose) March 11, 2024
injuries suck so bad for any player on any team. at the end of the day they're just guys playing the game they love. hope raffy's son makes a speedy recovery https://t.co/0VNG5ZzYv4
— lady red sox (@ladyredsoxxx) March 11, 2024
And this is how the Angels will lose out on Blake Snell https://t.co/20xg0F8uDA
— FerrisBueller27 (@angelfanmp) March 11, 2024
Yankees fans will certainly be hoping for the best because this is definitely not a situation a team wants to be dealing with this close to the start of a new season.
