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Yankees drop biggest Injured List you've ever seen ahead of Opening Day vs. Brewers

And it's still missing a few names!
Adam Weinrib
Adam Weinrib

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Tough news, Yerry De Los Santos. You've been demoted from the New York Yankees' Opening Day roster to make room for the acquisition of Ryan Yarbrough.

Anyhow, now that we've got that out of the way, here are 38 individual Injured List stints to roll out before first pitch!

While not quite that extreme, and not exactly packed with surprises, the Yankees' list of IL placements to open the new 2025 season became official on Wednesday evening, and reads like a scroll of decrees from someone trying to create a new Constitution.

Thankfully, there weren't any surprising splashes or bombs dropped. Rather, Yankee fans received the starkest reminder possible that they suffered through a winter/spring from hell, losing Giancarlo Stanton, Gerrit Cole, Luis Gil, and a cavalcade of relievers. The only way this could've been more painful is if they'd randomly included Juan Soto (Mets).

Yankees Injured List drop ranges from Giancarlo Stanton to Clayton Beeter, and everyone in between

Surprises here? Yeah, we've got a few. Jonathan Loaisiga was widely expected to be placed on the 60-Day IL to clear up space. Perhaps his rehab's going better than expected, or maybe the Yankees just wanted to give themselves some procedural wiggle room. Same with Stanton and Beeter, who both seemed to be out indefinitely based on the most recent comments from the team.

The bad news? Cole and Gil don't appear, seeing as they'll be hitting the 60-Day IL shortly to clear up 40-man spots, but neither does Jake Cousins. Cousins wasn't mentioned in Wednesday morning's wide-ranging injury update, either. Does this mean he's suffered a setback, possibly one of the surgical variety? The curveball-slinging righty was highly valuable last season, and just because the Yankees technically have the depth to cover for him doesn't mean they want to.

The Yankees still have a full roster to drop within the next ~20 hours, so we're expecting to get a final resolution on Oswald Peraza, Pablo Reyes, Brent Headrick, and a possible external bench addition/right-handed bat. That's where the real surprises will show up.

On the other hand, the IL announcement was inevitable, but it's still noteworthy how many scrolls it took to get to the bottom on a standard iPhone screen.

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib is a Content Director on the FanSided network, and has been the co-editor at Yanks Go Yard for 6 years. He also co-hosts The Baseball Insiders Podcast thrice weekly, alongside FanSided MLB insider Robert Murray, as well as the Yanks Go Yard Podcast. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at 12up.com, and has been covering MLB and NFL for 10 years. He was also a headline and features contributor at ClickHole and Onion Sports, as well as the Associate Producer of the ESPN 30 for 30 film "Believeland". An avowed fan of the New York sports teams -- specifically the Yankees -- as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels, you can find Adam complaining mid-game on Twitter, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn if the game goes really poorly.