by The New York Yankees hold their breath on Gerrit Cole.
The Staff Ace and the former Cy Young Award winner underwent an MRI on his Pitching Ellebow Friday due to discomfort he has experienced after a tough start for spring training on Thursday, according to Jon Morosi of MLB Network and Jon Heyman of the New York Post.
Cole allowed six earned runs in 2 2/3 Innings work against the Minnesota Twins, threw 54 throws and an average of 95.7 MPH with its fastball with four seams.
Gerrit Cole undergoes diagnostic tests on his throwing elbow, says the source.
Cole’s status should be clearer within the coming days.
He gave 6 in a spring outing yesterday. @Mlbnetwork
– Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) March 8, 2025
Gerrit Cole gets an MRI on his right elbow while experiencing some discomfort. He allowed six runs in a recent spring game. @jonmorosi on top
– Jon Heyman (@jonheyman) March 8, 2025
Cole was strong in his first spring training on 28 February, and threw five and allowed three hits and one earned run in 3 1/3 innings.
Gerrit Cole and the Yankees did not need this
This is the second consecutive season in which Cole experienced elbow problems in the spring training. Last year he was closed with nerve infection in his elbow and did not make his season debut until 19 June. He continued with a 3.41 ERA and helped the Yankees to the World Series in Leiden, where they lost from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Cole also comes from an unusual outdoor season in which he chose his contract and then agreed to return to a deal of four years, $ 144 million – the exact conditions of the contract he chose.
It goes without saying that it would be a considerable amount of time losing from Cole Catastrophic for the Yankees. They lost the Rookie of the Year Luis Gil from last year for at least three months in a LAT tribe. More generally, they lost Juan Soto at the New York Mets in the winter and tried to make up for a large strip of movements, including an eight -year -old, $ 218 million deal for starting pitcher Max Fried. They also exchanged Starter Nestor Cortes in the Devin Williams Deal.
Without Cole or Gil, New York would be ready to enter the 2025 season with a rotation in the Trinie of Fried, Clarke Schmidt, Carlos Rodón, Marcus Stroman (of whom they are probably happy with not acting) and something like Will Warren or non-raster Carlos Carrasco.
It is a not enviable position for a team that started spring with high expectations and a chip on its shoulder, so Cole’s test results cannot return quickly enough.
