A few pitches into his Friday morning bullpen session, Luis Gil stopped and said he could not go on. The 26-year-old reigning American League Rookie of the Year felt “tightness” in his right arm, said New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone a few hours later. The right-handed Gil is unlikely to be ready for Opening Day on March 27.
Boone said it was not an elbow injury and not definitively a shoulder injury, but “somewhere higher up,” gesturing toward his upper biceps. Gil is scheduled for an MRI on Saturday afternoon in Florida, and the Yankees expect to have a clearer sense of his diagnosis by Monday.
