Just when you think it couldn’t get worse for the New York Yankees, it does. The team has had a rough spring training in terms of injuries. Early in spring training, they found out Giancarlo Stanton would be unable to participate due to an elbow injury.

“I’m prepared for the worst,” Cashman said late Sunday morning in Jupiter, Florida, before the Yankees played the Cardinals in a Grapefruit League game. Cashman, speaking to reporters from Newsday and the New York Post, said his many years in the game have taught him to often take a fatalistic view of things.

I’m] prepared for the worst,” Cashman told The New York Post and Newsday. “We will see how it plays out. I’m always wired to think the worst and hope for the best.”