Since the beginning of the season, we know that the Yankees cannot count on Carlos Rodon. He is among the big names at the club who are injured.
He’s not the only one, of course, but hey.
The fact that he is not there means that the Yankees, who had to rely on two very talented starting pitchers, have to rely only on Gerrit Cole. The latter delivers more than the goods, but he is alone in the world.
This explains the difficulties in classification.
Recently, it was learned that Rodon’s back pain was preventing him from progressing. He is not regressing in his rehabilitation process, but he is not advancing either.
And yesterday, we learned that the player had chronic pain in his back. He’s going to have to learn to live with that, basically.
Mike Trout also has back pain…and if that’s any encouragement for the Yankees, right now it’s doing pretty well for the Angels star.
But who knows how it will turn out in the short or medium term? And in the long term?
Rodon will therefore receive cortisone in the next few days and he will see the effect it will have before he can establish a return schedule.
Because right now he can’t do it. He has not been able to say if he will be able to return by July, which is seven big weeks away.
He hasn’t started pitching yet.
Needless to say, Rodon, who hasn’t pitched an inning on the terms of his six-year, $162 million contract, is beginning to look forward to healing…and so are the Yankees.
