New York Yankees manager told reporters that Gary Sanchez would not hit batting practice today in Tampa due to a sore back. He thinks that the pain is from Sanchez playing in back-to-back games for the first time in 2020. Boone believes that it is not severe.
With Aaron Boone, we never really know if one of his player’s injuries are serious or not. He said the same thing about Judge, and now he may need surgery and will miss the start of the season.
We won’t know if it’s serious or not for a while. Sanchez isn’t supposed to play tomorrow, and the Yankees will then go from there. Hopefully, his pain will go away, but we will just have to see. The team can’t afford another big injury to start the season.
Sanchez is just 1-for-17 to start spring training. This sort of concerns me because the injury and the struggles could be correlated. Boone said that the pain is new, but could he have been hiding it? James Paxton and Aaron Judge hid their injuries, and it cost them the start of their season. I have a bad feeling that this injury for Sanchez could have been going on for a few weeks, and he just didn’t say anything.
But what do I know? I’m not in the Yankee clubhouse. Maybe it is just some general soreness. Every time that a Yankee has some type of injury or pain issues, it’s so concerning. There have been so many injuries over the last 12 months.
I hope it’s nothing serious with Sanchez, but the Yankees need to be prepared for the worst.