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TAMPA Jose Reyes Jersey , Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees ace Luis Severino will miss opening day because of an inflamed right shoulder that caused him to be scratched from his first scheduled spring training start on Tuesday.Severino won’t throw for two weeks, manager Aaron Boone said after a 5-1 win over Atlanta.“Obviously, anytime a starting pitcher and a guy like Sevie walks off while he’s warming up to start a game, you always get worried and concerned about that,” Boone said. “But it sounds like the shoulder is pretty clean, it’s just the inflammation issue. So if that’s the case, then hopefully two weeks is something that will do the trick, then he can start ramping back up with his throwing program, but we’ll re-evaluate it also at the same time.”Severino, a 25-year-old right-hander, was slated to face the Braves but was replaced by Stephan Tarpley after feeling discomfort after throwing his first slider during his pregame bullpen session.“Obviously a bummer,” teammate J.A. Happ said. “Glad to hear that the severity is not anything worse than that Jeurys Familia Jersey , hopefully.”Masahiro Tanaka, James Paxton, CC Sabathia and Happ are also projected to be in the Yankees’ rotation, and Luis Cessa, Jonathan Loaisiga and Domingo German are possible replacements.“We’ll be covered and feel like the guys that you would consider our sixth and seventh starters and things like that, we feel like we’re in good shape,” Boone said.Dallas Keuchel and Gio Gonzalez are available as free agents.Severino avoided an arbitration hearing with the Yankees and agreed to a $40 million, four-year contract, a deal that includes a team option and could be worth $52.25 million for five seasons.Severino has a 41-25 career record with a 3.51 ERA.The 25-year old right-hander is a two-time All-Star. He went 19-8 with a 3.39 ERA last year, winning 14 of his first 16 decisions but then five of his last 11. He came out early in both of his postseason starts, going 0-1 in seven innings.Center fielder Aaron Hicks, who agreed to a $70 million Mike Piazza Jersey , seven-year contract, was out of the lineup for the second straight day due to lower back soreness.Hicks was hurt during batting practice Friday night and still has discomfort. He hasn’t resumed hitting or other baseball activities.“I feel good about the way I’m progressing,” Hicks said. “Day by day it gets better. Obviously it’s slower than I want it to be, but I feel like I’m headed in the right direction.”Acquired from Minnesota in November 2015, Hicks has been on the disabled list in all six of his big league seasons, nine trips in all for hamstring strains (three times), oblique strains (twice), shoulder, forearm and intercostal strains, and a concussion.A 29-year-old switch-hitter, Hicks took over as the Yankees primary center fielder last year and set career highs with 137 games, 27 homers and 79 RBIs.TANAKATanaka has added a knuckle curve to his pitching repertoire. “I really didn’t like how the previous curveball was moving http://www.metsfanproshop.com/authentic-tim-tebow-jersey ,” he said through a translator. “So I wanted to try something new and that’s where basically I have a new curveball now.” Tanaka, 12-6 with 3.75 ERA in 27 starts last season, likes the pitch and how it’s moving. “It’s something that I’ve been kind of been playing around with or trying during the later part of the season last year,” Tanaka said. “Actually I’ve thrown a couple in a game towards the end of last season. So I kept working on it and working on it.” Seager, Taylor, Pederson, and are part of the group of players that need to be signed"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections 2019 Spring TrainingProspectsCommentaryNews and NotesSalary ArbitrationCorey Seager and Chris Taylor headline list of arbitration-eligible DodgersNew,86commentsDodgers “file and trial” stance means January 11th is their deadline to avoid arbitration PSTShareTweetShareShareCorey Seager and Chris Taylor headline list of arbitration-eligible DodgersLance Iversen-USA TODAY SportsAs the offseason enters the last non-baseball playing month, we have now reached the upcoming deadline for teams to sign their arbitration-eligible players.The teams and players have until 10:00 a.m. PST Friday January 11th to either settle on a contract or exchange salary figures.With the trade of Yasiel Puig and Alex Wood, the Dodgers have eight players that they have to sign by that Friday deadline to avoid a potential arbitration hearing.Corey Seager and Chris Taylor are entering their arbitration-eligible seasons and will likely receive the most significant bump in their salaries as opposed to the other six players.Pedro Baez, Yimi Garcia, Kik茅 Hern谩ndez and Joc Pederson will be in their second turn at the potential arbitration hearing invitation.This will be the final go around at the potential exchange of salary figures for Josh Fields.Tony Cingrani is also one of the eight players tendered a contract and is also entering his final season before free agency.It was reported back on November 30th that he had signed his 2019 contract for $2.65M.I will note that there has been no official announcement by the Dodgers since this was reported.Eric Stephen has written extensively about prior arbitration salary deadlines and as he noted last year http://www.metsfanproshop.com/authentic-tim-tebow-jersey , while the January 11th deadline is only for exchanging salary figures and not a cutoff of any negotiations, the Dodgers treat it as such because they are a “file and trial”team.Like other major league teams who have the same philosophy, once the the Dodgers exchange figures and the deadline passes, the Dodgers will no longer negotiate with the player and will take their chances at the hearing.Now after saying all this, the Andrew Friedman led Dodgers have had 29 arbitration eligible players and they have signed all of them prior to having to file salary figures.Nearly all of them have signed shortly before on or on the day of deadline.In the next few days and up to the deadline, we will review the situations for each of the players, including the reportedly signed Tony Cingrani.