{"id":96617,"date":"2025-02-28T18:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=96617"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:31:58","slug":"yankees-luis-gil-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/28\/yankees-luis-gil-shoulder-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigning AL ROY Luis Gil to Miss Time with Shoulder Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Yankees right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gillu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Gil<\/a> will undergo an MRI after experiencing shoulder tightness during a bullpen session on Friday. Yankees manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/booneaa01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Boone<\/a> told reporters that the MRI is scheduled for Saturday and feels like the injury could &#8220;cost us some time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luis Gil was shut down from a bullpen after experiencing discomfort in his pitching shoulder. He is getting an MRI.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Hoch \u26be\ufe0f (@BryanHoch) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/1895575611625906593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Yankees Starter Luis Gil Pulled from Bullpen with Shoulder Injury<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/18\/paul-skenes-luis-gil-2024-rookie-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">American League Rookie of the Year<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Gil<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a late addition to the Yankees starting rotation following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/colege01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerrit Cole<\/a>&#8216;s elbow injury last March. Gil made 29 starts, recording a 3.50 ERA over 151 \u2154 innings in his first full major league season. The 26-year-old was expected to return to a star-studded Yankees rotation featuring Cole, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/friedma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Fried<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodonca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/schmicl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clarke Schmidt<\/a>. Gil was building toward his first start of spring training when he started feeling tightness in his throwing arm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen a pitcher stops his bullpen, that\u2019s concerning,\u201d Boone told reporters before Friday night\u2019s game against the Blue Jays. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get ahead of myself. Any time they pull themselves from a bullpen, a couple of pitches in, that\u2019s concerning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boone said it was not an elbow injury, though he said the tightness was not definitively from his shoulder either. He told reporters that the discomfort Gil felt was \u201csomewhere higher up,\u201d and gestured toward his upper biceps. An MRI is scheduled for Saturday, with the Yankees expecting to have a clearer understanding of the injury by Monday. Shoulder injuries are generally more problematic for pitchers than elbow injuries, though Gil has a history of elbow troubles, undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Gil has not been ruled out for Opening Day, he will likely be unavailable to start the regular season. Should he miss time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stromma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Stroman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/warrewi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Warren<\/a> would be candidates to take his place in the starting rotation. New York also has veteran right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/carraca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Carrasco<\/a>, in camp on a minor league deal, who could also see time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees right-hander Luis Gil will undergo an MRI after experiencing shoulder tightness during a bullpen session on Friday. Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters that the MRI is scheduled for Saturday and feels like the injury could &#8220;cost us some time.&#8221; Luis Gil was shut down from a bullpen after experiencing discomfort in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":96631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[2860,895],"class_list":["post-96617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-luis-gil","tag-spring-training"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96617"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96632,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96617\/revisions\/96632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}