Well the first televised Spring training game resulted in Curtis Granderson fracturing his right forearm on a pitch from Blue Jays left-hander J.A Happ.
Granderson spoke to Mark Feinsand
after suffering the injury stating: “I was excited, my body was feeling good, mind was feeling
good and I was ready to go. Five pitches in we have a little setback.
They said it could be worse. Now we rest, recover, get it back and get
ready to play whenever that day comes … Mentally, you understand it’s
part of it. At the same time, there’s not much I can do about it except
for doing the best things I can to not make it worse but yet keep myself
ready to go.”
Granderson played 160 games with last years team and hit 43 home runs, with him down the Yankees are losing their best power hitter for the last two years and are looking at a very light hitting outfield to start the year. Look for the Yankees to monitor the waiver wire and possibly look to trade for a player, but its not like there was a player out there before that the Yankees were looking at. It also makes it really stink that the Yankees did not sign Scott Harriston or trade for Mike Morse as they could easily have just used him in a full time role until Granderson came back. Its not going to be good if the Yankees have to start the year with what they have and they cannot do what they did last year and just ignore the issue.
I suppose its good that this happened so early in spring training and I would be even more concerned about a hand injury, but any arm area injuries are concerning especially for a guy who was having issues with his swing.
Just a note Chris Dickerson would be great to have right now, but hind sight is always 20-20.
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