The New York Yankees lost Luis Gil for several months and are awaiting word on Gerrit Cole. The Baltimore Orioles announced Sunday that Grayson Rodriguez will open the season on the injured list. The Seattle Mariners expect George Kirby to start on the IL as well.

And that’s just within the past three days.

The sudden flurry of injuries to starting pitchers is creating new possibilities for trade discussions and potential free-agent signees such as Kyle Gibson and Lance Lynn, according to sources briefed on recent developments.

Even the Chicago Cubs, relatively healthy at the moment, are among the clubs seeking potential rotation help, a search that might intensify depending on how they fare in their season-opening series against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Tokyo on March 18-19.

Significant trades in spring training are rare. San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller, who has entertained conversations on Dylan Cease and Michael King, prefers to keep his team together, sources say. And if the Miami Marlins move Sandy Alcantara, who is impressing evaluators in his return from Tommy John surgery, it likely will not be until the trade deadline.

Signing free-agent starters in March, meanwhile, is not necessarily a cure-all, as demonstrated last season by the difficulties of two pitchers who reached such agreements — Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery. Snell suffered an early-season injury with the San Francisco Giants. Montgomery struggled the entire year with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Gibson and Lynn, both 37, are throwing regularly, sources say. Gibson has made 29 or more starts in his last six full seasons. Since his debut in 2011, Lynn ranks sixth in the majors in innings pitched, and he said in December he had lost 20 pounds, dropping from 280 to 260, in an effort to avoid recent knee trouble.

Still, teams cannot be sure either or both veterans would be ready for Opening Day, and how much a shortened spring training would affect their health and performance.

To that end, sources say, some clubs are asking the pitchers to sign a 45-day advance-consent form. Such requests can only be made to players with five or more years of major-league service. If the player agrees, the club can terminate his contract during the 45-day window for any reason except injury, and pay him only for the amount of time he spent on the roster.

Veterans who provide advance consent generally lack leverage. But with each new injury, the leverage for Lynn and Gibson is rising. How much, though, remains to be seen. Andrew Heaney recently signed a one-year, $5.25 million contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and José Quintana took a one-year, $4.25 million deal with the Milwaukee Brewers. Both agreements were well below the early payouts for comparable free-agent starters.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said he was “prepared for the worst” with Cole, who is dealing with elbow trouble for the second straight spring. The Orioles want to see how Rodriguez responds to a cortisone injection in his elbow, which will shut him down from throwing for a week to 10 days. The Mariners say that while Kirby has no structural damage in his shoulder, they want his inflammation to diminish before he resumes throwing.

Of those clubs, sources say only the Orioles clearly are exploring additions. But even teams relatively deep in starting pitching constantly scour the market for potential upgrades.

The Cubs are keeping Gibson and Lynn on their radar in case issues arise after the team’s early ramp-up for spring training and long trip to Japan, sources say.

Even with their top four starters healthy, the Cubs discussed a major-league contract for Heaney before he chose the Pirates in late February. The organization at that time already had acquired multiple options to fill out the rotation and provide quality Triple-A depth. The outlook now looks even better: Javier Assad, Chicago’s projected No. 5 starter, has resumed his throwing program after an oblique injury that delayed his start to spring training.

At the moment, the Cubs aren’t in a position to promise Gibson or Lynn a spot in their rotation, much less guarantee that either pitcher would make the major-league club by a certain date. But the seemingly nonstop injury news coming out of Arizona and Florida means all 30 clubs will continue looking for pitching. Even ones that appear to be set.