If the Yankees are going to be able to withstand their recent injury news, their younger pitchers will have to be front and center.

Bauer, exiled from Major League Baseball since 2022, took to social media again to push for a return. With the Yankees facing a potential season-ending injury to Gerrit Cole, Bauer made his pitch.

The short-term implications of Gerrit Cole’s elbow injury for the Yankees are obvious. Any absence from the ace is a crushing blow for a team that will already be missing reigning Rookie of the Year Award winner Luis Gil for the next three-plus months.