“I’m prepared for the worst,” Cashman said late Sunday morning in Jupiter, Florida, before the Yankees played the Cardinals in a Grapefruit League game. Cashman, speaking to reporters from Newsday and the New York Post, said his many years in the game have taught him to often take a fatalistic view of things.

Where there is smoke, there is fire and the Yankees could soon find their season up in flames due to Gerrit Cole’s elbow injury.

Gerrit Cole's 2025 season is over before it officially begins. The New York Yankees ace will undergo Tommy John surgery, the team announced Monday. Cole, 34, told reporters Saturday that he felt discomfort in his right elbow after giving up six runs in 2 2/3 innings in a spring training outing against the Minnesota Twins on Thursday.