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Yankee starters C.C. Sabathia and Andy Pettitte will miss key time during the second half. Also, two promising starters, Clay Buchholz and Daniel Hudson are on the DL, and one is out for the year.

Veterans Troy Tulowitzki and Adrian Gonzalez are key components to their major league teams and fantasy owners. What is the outlook for the rest of the season?

Up until last week, the theme for this major league season was the oblique injury, with a record setting number of this type of injury already having occurred. We get a reprieve if only for a week or so but I’m sure there are better ways to take our minds off these pesky side injuries. This week three high profile players battle elbow issues and all three eventually could be Tommy John candidates.

When I began covering injuries back in 1993, Tommy John surgery was not nearly as successful as it is now. Torn labrums, flexor mass injuries, modified Mumford surgery, microfracture knee surgery and others were rarely reported because they either didn’t exist or the journalist reporting on the injury did not report true name for various reasons. And oblique injuries? Very, very rare.