Keith has been conditioned to have injury concerns given the teams he roots for, with the Yankees being derailed by injury last season, the Nets banking on a healthy Ben Simmons, and the Devils dealing with absences from several of their best players throughout the season.
So, when Aaron Judge tells reporters that his injured toe will require “constant maintenance” for the rest of his career, Keith can’t help but feel a sense of pending doom.
“As I listen to Aaron Judge talk about his toe, he said it’s something that’s gonna take ‘constant maintenance,’ and he didn’t get surgery on the toe,” Keith said. “So in my mind, as a pessimistic Yankee fan, knowing they lead the league in IL stints since 2019, I’m just waiting for July or August to hear Aaron Judge is on the IL, his toe is sore.”
It doesn’t stop with Judge, as there are injury concerns elsewhere on the Yankee roster as spring training is in full swing.
“So much in this Yankee season, where everyone is talking World Series and that they’re the best team in the American League on paper, we are relying on three starting pitchers that were hurt for half of the season last year,” Keith said.
“Anthony Rizzo was concussed last year…Giancarlo Stanton came into camp in shape, but we know Stanton will have a soft tissue injury, a calf or a quad…I pray for help.”
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