Despite being scratched from his scheduled spring training start, New York Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt offered an encouraging update after a bullpen session

The New York Yankees have been taking on injuries all spring, especially their starting rotation. It's left them scrambling for healthy arms. So when Clarke Schmidt was scratched from his scheduled Grapefruit League start on Monday, there was immediate concern that he might be the next pitcher added to the list of casualties.

The Yankees can’t afford to have any more injury adversity in their starting rotation this spring, but the blows keep on coming. They’ve already lost Gerrit Cole for the year (Tommy John surgery) and Luis Gil (high-grade lat strain) for the first three months of the season,