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Reigning AL Cy Young winner Gerrit Cole is having an MRI on his pitching elbow, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters Monday morning.
According to Boone, Cole has had a hard time bouncing back between starts at Spring Training.
Boone said Cole is feeling similarly to how he does during the season when he is routinely throwing 100-plus pitches, but he hasn’t been going that deep down in Florida.
Cole has made one appearance in the Grapefruit League, facing off against the Toronto Blue Jays on March 1.
He allowed three earned runs, four hits and a home run, tossing 39 pitches across 2.0 innings of work.
The 33-year-old right-hander is entering the fifth season of the record-breaking nine-year, $324 million contract he signed with the Yankees in December 2019.
Going back to his time with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros, Cole is 145-75 with a 3.17 ERA, 1.087 WHIP and 2,152 strikeouts.
Before he won his first Cy Young Award last fall, Cole finished as the runner-up twice and inside the top 10 six times.
Cole has started 30-plus games in each of the last six non-COVID seasons, and he has surged past 200 innings six times in his career.
His injury history is surprisingly limited, given how hard he’s thrown the ball over the last 11 MLB seasons.
The former No. 1 overall pick out of UCLA ranks seventh among active pitchers in career WAR at 40.7.
