BASEBALL NOTES
The New York Yankees could be opening the season without three-fifths of their projected starting rotation.
Right-hander Luis Severino has a low-grade lat strain, Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters Saturday, putting the two-time All-Star at risk of starting the season on the injured list.
“Obviously it’s going to put him in jeopardy to start the year,” Boone said.
Boone expressed optimism this wouldn’t be a long-term issue but acknowledged that Severino “most likely” would get placed on the injured list.
Severino, 29, went 7-3 with a 3.18 ERA in 19 starts last season. He struck out 112 in 102 innings.
Boone said the issue arose after Severino made his last start on Tuesday.
“Afterwards when he was kind of doing his workout, arm-care stuff, he just felt some tightness in there,” Boone said. “He came in the next day and it was a little tight, and then yesterday he was going to go out and throw and that tightness was still there enough to where he wanted to go get it looked at.”
The Yankees already won’t have right-hander Frankie Montas or lefthander Carlos Rodón for the start of the season. Rodón, who joined the Yankees by signing a $162 million, sixyear contract in the offseason, has a left forearm strain that will cause him to open the season on the injured list. Montas is recovering from shoulder surgery and won’t begin throwing until at least late May.
BRAVES: Atlanta right-hander Kyle Wright, the only 20-game winner in the majors in 2022, will start this season on the injured list. That creates the likelihood that rookie left-handers Jared Shuster and Dylan Dodd will both be part of Atlanta’s rotation early.
Wright, who was 21-5 with a 3.19 ERA last season, has been limited to two starts this spring and the righthander needs additional time to strengthen his sore pitching
nshoulder. He’s expected to return in mid-April.
Shuster is Atlanta’s top prospect. He and Dodd have been competing for what the Braves had anticipated would be one opening in the rotation.
ATHLETICS: The Oakland A’s agreed to terms with right-hander Jeurys Familia on a $1.5 million, oneyear contract.
Familia was a non-roster invite to Arizona Diamondbacks camp this spring and went 1-0 with a 1.35 ERA and .167 opponents’ batting average in eight relief appearances before being released by the Diamondbacks on Friday. He pitched for Philadelphia and Boston last year, going a combined 2-3 with a 6.09 ERA in 48 outings.
The 33-year-old righty is 34-28 with 125 saves and a 3.51 ERA in 574 games over 11 seasons with the Mets, A’s, Red Sox and Phillies.
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