I’m hesitant to jot down on this topic as a result of I do know the storm is coming. The Mets, for instance, had been comparatively wholesome from the onset of spring after which within the final week had Jorge Polanco working by Achilles ache, Brett Baty coping with a jammed thumb and positioned Juan Soto on the IL on Monday with a strained calf.
In some unspecified time in the future, the Yankees are going to be hit by damage, too.
But, one key ingredient to their sturdy begin is that they haven’t incurred a brand new IL-level setback since spring coaching started. They knew when camp opened that Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodón, Clarke Schmidt and Anthony Volpe would start the season on the injured listing — and people nonetheless are the one 4 that had been there halfway by the second week of the common season.
That stands out, for instance, from not solely their latest historical past (and nearly each staff’s latest historical past), but in addition from two of their anticipated fundamental AL East rivals, the Blue Jays and Orioles, who’ve taken on key accidents early this season to feed disappointing begins.
