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Gerrit Cole said he is “concerned” about his elbow injury that he suffered after his most recent spring training start.
Asked if he was worried about having to undergo surgery on the same elbow that caused him to be shut down for much of the first half of last season, Cole said, “I’m concerned. I’m hoping for the best.”
But Cole understands the reality of having an elbow issue in consecutive spring trainings.
He was able to rehab the injury a year ago and is waiting to get opinions from other doctors before making any decisions regarding treatment this time.
He added of the injury, “We have an initial idea.”
Cole said he felt good during his last start, but that changed that night.
“As I got home, it continued to get more and more sore,” Cole said. “Something wasn’t right.”
He called the soreness “alarming. It was tough to sleep.”
The injury comes after Cole and the Yankees altered his offseason throwing program, which included him throwing in November.
“We came up with a plan to mitigate the risks and I executed it,” Cole said. “I felt the best I had in some time leading up [to the last start].”
He joins Luis Gil as an injury concern in the rotation, with Giancarlo Stanton and DJ LeMahieu also sidelined by injuries.
Cole called the spate of injuries in camp “pretty brutal.”
And of his own injury, Cole said, “You take the risk every year. It’s just tough.”
Cole hopes to have more answers soon and called the feeling of this elbow “pretty much the same” as the one that he suffered a year ago.
“I’ve still got some hope,” Cole said.