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Luis Severino Won’t Return In 2023 Following High-Grade Oblique Strain

By Anthony Franco | September 9, 2023 at 6:44pm CDT

6:44PM: The specifics of Severino’s injury have become clear, as manager Aaron Boone told reporters (including Brendan Kuty of The Athletic) that the right-hander had suffered a “high-grade” left oblique strain. The injury brings a difficult 2023 campaign for Severino to an end, and leaves the 29-year-old’s health as a major question mark just two months before he’s scheduled to hit free agency for the first time in his career.

9:39AM: As expected, the Yankees placed Severino on the 15-day IL, and called up right-hander Ron Marinaccio from Triple-A in the corresponding move.  The specific nature of Severino’s injury isn’t yet known, as the club announced he was sidelined with “a left upper body injury (pending further results).”

SEPTEMBER 8: Luis Severino departed this evening’s start against Milwaukee in the fifth inning. The right-hander left in obvious pain after throwing a pitch to Brice Turang.

The Yankees didn’t provide many specifics, saying only that Severino would go for additional testing on a left side injury. After the game, the pitcher said he felt like he’d been shot, calling it “deep, sharp pain” (via Brendan Kuty of the Athletic).

More will be known in the coming days, but it seems as if Severino is trending to a trip to the injured list. With three weeks left in the regular season and the Yankees all but certain to miss the playoffs, it’s fair to wonder if his 2023 campaign will be cut short.

It has been a nightmarish season for the 29-year-old hurler. Severino spent the first six weeks of the season on the injured list after suffering a Spring Training lat injury. He returned in late May and had been healthy up until tonight, but he has posted some of the worst numbers of any pitcher in the league. Including his performance this evening, he carries a 6.65 ERA through 89 1/3 innings. He’s striking out a below-average 18.9% of opposing hitters and has allowed a staggering 2.32 home runs per nine.

It’s a huge drop-off for a pitcher who worked to a 3.18 ERA with a 27.7% strikeout rate in 102 innings a year ago. Severino battled injuries (most notably a February 2020 Tommy John procedure) going back to 2019. Yet his rate statistics last season weren’t much worse than those of his 2017-18 peak when he made consecutive All-Star games and finished as high as third in Cy Young balloting.

Even if Severino were to finish this year healthy, it’d be a tough time for his first career trip to free agency. He already looked like a candidate for a one-year, bounceback deal in hopes of a better platform season going into the 2024-25 offseason. If he requires a stint on the injured list to close out the year, he’d head into the winter with an additional question mark.

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47 Comments

  1. Mikenmn

    2 years ago

    The Yankee’s injury list is absurd. He’s probably done as a Yankee. Someone will sign him in the offseason on a light contract, and maybe he will find himself. He’s not old

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    • desertball

      2 years ago

      LAD too. Though Bauer is killing it overseas.

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      • Ignorant Son-of-a-b

        2 years ago

        Bauer may as well be pitching on the moon. It doesn’t matter.

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      • JPR

        2 years ago

        Bauer is relevant how?

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        • BaseballBrian

          2 years ago

          It’s a reminder how the leagues wrongly suspend people without waiting for the facts or investigations to finish up.

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        • raregokus

          2 years ago

          Keep living in a fantasy land, my man.

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        • Deadguy

          2 years ago

          Bauer is relevant because everyone needs pitching help right now due to shorter games shorter beers, shorter pitching careers, pitch clock timer… But keep on listening to the Beautiful People and telling me about how the forest isn’t made of trees….. and how all of these people can’t smell there own $H!T on there knees? No seriously that’s why they poop in our drinking water

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  2. Yanks4life22

    2 years ago

    The talent and arm strength are still there he’s just spiraled with his mechanics this year. I’d bring him back as a SP and if he doesn’t iron out the kinks by the all star break next year I’d move him to the pen and I think that would end up with him being an elite reliever.

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  3. YankeesBleacherCreature

    2 years ago

    Watched Sevy’s post-game interview and he was holding back tears explaining his injury and had to walk off. Appears to be a lower back strain. Love Sevy but it’s probably the last time we seem him in pinstripes.

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  4. User 3617846742

    2 years ago

    I saw the game. The injury looked phony.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      2 years ago

      Huh?

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      • dasit

        2 years ago

        forget it, he’s rolling

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        • Ignorant Son-of-a-b

          2 years ago

          That’s some really bad ecstasy then, I mean, MLTBR is one of the very last places I would wanna hang at if I was rolling.

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        • Deadguy

          2 years ago

          He musta not gotten the blue playboy bunnies? Heard they all got busted? Some major raid on the Canadian underground rave scene back in like 2008?

          Must be super hard to find good ecstacy now… the Cartel doesn’t specialize in party drugs… only addictive drugs. They need return clientel *insert bill Hicks meme here* what if we kill the audience instead? I’m tired of getting my balls sucked off every night by groupies

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  5. LordD99

    2 years ago

    And tonight was Severino’s final start for the Yankees. He has a great arm, but too injury prone.

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  6. Dorothy_Mantooth

    2 years ago

    The next 1 year, $10M pitcher for Chaim Bloom and the Red Sox in 2024.

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    • JoeBrady

      2 years ago

      He’d be interesting. He has a 3.0 bWAR/162 games. but only 1.5 bWAR/season. If we did sign him, it would have to come with a team option., even if it came with an opt-out at say 160 IPs.

      I always liked his talent.

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      • JPR

        2 years ago

        his bwar this season is -1.5, not 1.5.

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      • JPR

        2 years ago

        His bWAR for this season is -1.5.

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    • Cora the Destroya

      2 years ago

      That’s a stupid idea. Guy is always injured and all we have are injured pitchers anyway.

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  7. acoss13

    2 years ago

    Maybe it’s me, but he looks fatigued quite a bit on the mound, and it’s not even like 80 pitches in. He could probably do with a better workout regimen. Probably add some conditioning to withstand the length of a full season too.

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    • Jrnomo100

      2 years ago

      Make a closer out of him

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  8. Jacksson13

    2 years ago

    I believe it was an OUTSIDE injury !!

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  9. ArianaGrandSlam

    2 years ago

    Pretty much his time with the Yankees is over.

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  10. dankyank

    2 years ago

    Another gut punch for Severino. He had finally started to give some good outings. If the injury is anywhere near as severe as he described, it definitely calls into question whether he can still handle a starter’s workload.

    What a bummer. Thanks for the memories, Sevvy. I’ll never forget the pre- 25 version.

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  11. CravenMoorehead

    2 years ago

    Dissapointed but not surprised. At this point Giancarlo Stanton is probably just itching to fit in one more IL stint before this abysmal season concludes.

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    • CravenMoorehead

      2 years ago

      The only silver lining of Stanton’s contract is that the Marlins are paying around $30 million towards the end of it.

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      • CravenMoorehead

        2 years ago

        Capjudge-

        Ironically Jeter was instrumental in getting most of that contract off the books for the Marlins at the time. Since that trade Stanton has had only 2 good seasons where he wasn’t injured for most of the year. I just hope he doesn’t descend into Joey Gallo territory where he bats below the mendoza line when he is on the field. The last 2 years his OBP hasn’t even been above .300 (oof)

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  12. LordD99

    2 years ago

    Was originally think it was an oblique injury, but left “upper body” suggests something else.

    Looks like he’s run out of runway for the season and his Yankee career. He’ll get an incentive-laden deal somewhere.

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    • CravenMoorehead

      2 years ago

      For some reason I can see him going to a contender in the NL on a 1 year deal.

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      • Joe says...

        2 years ago

        Definitely fits the Giants MO.

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        • sfjackcoke

          2 years ago

          Actually given the Giants track record of handling pitchers in situations like Servino’s, his agent should be calling them. The list is long of SP who’ve gone there post injury and/or decline in performance and got healthy, performed and gotten paid $ is long.

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  13. uvmfiji

    2 years ago

    I smell a Jon Lieber contract coming.

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  14. Perksy

    2 years ago

    Maybe Nola as well in the mix? He has a good durability history which is important for the yanks.

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  15. Edp007

    2 years ago

    Louie Louie, oh no
    Me gotta go
    Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
    Louie Louie, oh baby
    Me gotta go

    Reply
  16. YankeesBleacherCreature

    2 years ago

    They’re not giving up a draft pick to sign Monty.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      2 years ago

      My bad.

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  17. Joe says...

    2 years ago

    I think they might should look at Ryu. He can be had on a short term deal. He can likely be signed for one year but no more than two. That would be a rotation of Cole, Cortez, Rodon, King and Ryu. I’m not sold on Schmidt and they should trade him while he has some value. Saves a lot of money to get a third baseman and a left fielder.

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    • Joe says...

      2 years ago

      King has definitely been good out of the pen but I like his stuff better than Schmidt. I just don’t see Schmidt replicating this year’s success.
      I agree on Chapman. We’ve had enough of his type of player. If they go the FA route at third, I’d have to go with Candelario. Though I’m not overly excited about him either. Not sure who I would target in a trade.
      I would shell out the bucks for Bellinger though. As long as they don’t try to get cute with the years to keep the AAV down like they did with DJLM.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      2 years ago

      @Joe The rotation is Cole, Rodon, Cortes, King, and German(?)/Schmidt/Brito/Vasquez. They could probably resign Montas for cheaper than Ryu. I think they have good SP depth already. I’d say go after Bellinger.

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  18. Rsox

    2 years ago

    The Yankees are in the midst of their worst season since 2014 and have the chance to finish with their lowest win total since 1992. The last thing they needed was another starter going down

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    • larkraxm

      2 years ago

      Doesn’t really matter does it? Seems like since the season is lost anyway might as well let the kids pitch and find out what they have. That seems like a better use for the rest of this season.

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  19. SteveC

    2 years ago

    Left Oblique injury and done for the season according to MLB Network just now. The latter certainly isn’t surprising

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  20. ArianaGrandSlam

    2 years ago

    The Yankees got the best and the worst of him so I’d say they’re even.

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  21. dasit

    2 years ago

    the man loves new york
    i believe he’ll be back on a 1-year deal

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  22. oneiblnd

    2 years ago

    And Loaisiga started another inning of meltdown yesterday. The fact this team doesn’t a definitive closer. This season couldn’t end quick enough.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      2 years ago

      These are 3.00-4.00 ERA relievers. I don’t understand why one should expect them to pitch like elite relievers every time out. Same for Clay Holmes. Even having a Mariano Rivera in his prime wouldn’t have saved this season.

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