Pooh-pooher Boone on Sanchez: “I am not that concerned about it, normal wear and tear and first back-to-back. I don’t think it will be that much of a concern.’’

Latest from the front: Gary Sanchez - currently 1-for 17 with seven whiffs - has a bad back. 

Last year, Sanchez twice went on the Injury List. For the last three seasons, he's been a regular. 

The Death Star says Sanchez will miss a day or two, that there is no cause for alarm, that we should go about business as usual, just wash our hands and stop scratching our faces. Sanchez will be fine. Go home, everybody, there's nothing to see. 

Does anybody buy this? And, if so, please explain...

By now, Yank fans have become numb to the infield chatter that constantly assures us that nothing is wrong, that a player will miss a day or two, that if it were the regular season, he'd be out there - that he'll take a pill and be fine in the morning. 

But if you have to keep telling yourself something, over and over, it's probably not so. 

Besides, we've seen movie many times. A Yankee misses a game. The pooh-poohers pooh-pooh it. After several games, the player still feels discomfort. After a week, the team sends him for tests. A new diagnosis comes down. The pooh-poohers say he might miss opening day. That's all we are told. 

Yesterday, we learned that Giancarlo Stanton is hitting off a tee. What that means, who knows? There is no public timetable for his return, in part because Stanton has proven himself capable of hurting himself while recovering from another injury. It's a rare talent, at least on other teams. On the Yankees, it's almost normalcy.

All we know is that Stanton will miss opening day. As for April? May? June? The pooh-poohers pooh-pooh such matters. He's hitting off a tee. 

Over the years, happy talk, silence and pooh-poohs have anchored the Yankee public policy on the matter of injuries. The fans don't need to know. 

And I do get it: When a player goes down, nobody can be 100 percent sure about the extent of his injury. The juju gods are pricks, and every player heals at his own rate. I suppose the theory is that, by staying silent, Cooperstown Cashman might buy himself time to swing a deal or sign a player.

But the policy of pooh-poohing the seriousness of injuries seems to be getting us nowhere. Nobody believes pooh. And it might even may be dangerously trickling down to the players themselves. 

The Yankees seems to have been caught flat-footed by revelations that James Paxton, Luis Severino and Aaron Judge all reported to camp with injuries that could have been dealt with last November. The team sat on its hands. It's also possible that team policy worked against the idea of openness: The Yankees this winter launched a lawsuit against Jacoby Ellsbury, claiming that his albatross contract should be voided because he sought medical advise from a non-team-approved doctor. Could this have caused players to STFU about tweaks they might have been feeling? Just asking.

Either way, Gary Sanchez has a bad back. The Yankees are pooh-poohing it. Here we go again?