There won't be too much sympathy -- these are the high-priced New York Yankees, after all -- but losing two pitchers with a combined 428 career wins on the same day? That's just unlucky.
Early in the afternoon Wednesday, the Yankees announced that CC Sabathia was going on the disabled list with a strained muscle in his left leg. Sabathia is one of the most durable pitchers in baseball -- he's thrown more than 200 innings in each of the past five seasons. But he'll just miss a couple starts and will be back after the All-Star break.
Then in Wednesday's game against the Indians, Andy Pettitte took a line drive off his left ankle and broke it, and he's out for six weeks. Pettitte was a solid 3-3 with a 3.29 ERA in his first eight starts with the Yankees after taking a year off.
The Yankees' pitching staff in mid-March looked like this: Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Michael Pineda, Ivan Nova and Pettitte, with Mariano Rivera closing.
For the next few weeks, the team with the second-best record in baseball will try to make do with Kuroda, Nova, Phil Hughes, Freddy Garcia and Adam Warren in the rotation, and Rafael Soriano closing.
Yankees GM Brian Cashman won't overreact to this, but it seems doubtful that Warren and Garcia will have a very long leash.
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