Yankees place ace on 60-day injured list

The Yankees introduced a collection of Opening Day roster moves Thursday, with right-hander Gerrit Cole positioned on the 60-day injured record. His 40-man roster spot will go to right-hander Nick Burdi, who was previously reported to have made the membership.

Over latest weeks, Cole and the Yankees bought a giant scare when he was coping with some elbow points and was despatched for testing. Whereas this led to every kind of panic about attainable surgical procedure and prolonged absences, the eventual information ended up being on the delicate aspect in comparison with these doomsday eventualities. He was identified with nerve irritation and edema and advisable for non-surgical rehab.

That’s clearly a greater final result than sitting out your entire yr or longer, however he’s nonetheless going to overlook a while. His return will depend upon how he progresses within the coming weeks, nevertheless it’s been urged he’s a minimum of a month or two away from coming again. This transfer means he’ll be ineligible to be activated till late Could, so the Yankees evidently don’t assume he’ll be capable to return earlier than then.

Within the meantime, the Yanks will roll out a rotation of Nestor Cortes, Carlos Rodon, Marcus Stroman, Clarke Schmidt and Luis Gil to start out the season.