TAMPA — An inflamed right rotator cuff will keep Luis Severino on the injured list when the Yankees open the season, and the staff ace will have CC Sabathia with him.
“I would say a short [IL] stint probably,” Aaron Boone said of Sabathia, who is suspended for the first five games of the season and coming off right knee surgery and having a stent inserted into a blocked heart artery during the offseason. “Everything is going pretty well, and he had [his second bullpen session] that went well. I certainly don’t expect him for the start of the season.