Are injuries in professional baseball cyclical, bad luck or a sign of deeper issues? It depends on who you ask.You can sort publicly available lists of injuries any way you want — and The Athletic did, coming up with nearly a dozen different combinations — and the same three teams stay at or near the top of the list of organizations with the most injuries: the New York Yankees, New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles.We looked at data on injured major leaguers, injured minor leaguers, as well as separating injured hitters from injured pitchers. We looked at small sample sizes and bigger ones. In all of those data groupings, those three organizations have the most days missed due to injury since 2024, since 2022 and even dating back to the 2012 season.When looking at days missed due to injury from year-to-year within an organization, the previous year’s injury numbers explain about 40 percent of the current year’s injury numbers, i.e., organizations with lots of injuries the year before tend to have lots of injuries the next year. That means there’s some signal in the data, though the pure numbers can still be misleading because of how teams use their injured list.Why do the most injured organizations tend to stay that way? Is it possible to change things and create healthier outcomes for players? And, ultimately, does it matter to a team’s overall success?Let’s start with why those three teams seem to always be at the top of the hurt list. Here are major- and minor-league days missed on the injured list, grouped by organization, courtesy of The Baseball Cube’s injury database.