BOSTON — The Yankees’ extensive medical team – their doctors, athletic trainers, physical therapists, etc. - might want to start job hunting now.

Heads will roll in the offseason.

How can they not?

The Yankees set a major league record this year sending 29 players to the injured list for a combined 37 stints, and several had major setbacks while rehabbing. No. 1 starter Luis Severino’s spring training rotator cuff inflammation somehow turned into a much-worse Grade 2 lat strain by May.

How does that happen?

Severino later had a setback after resuming a throwing program without the medical staff ordering a fresh MRI, and the two-time All-Star just now is close to being activated and starting his season.

The Yankees’ medical staff is back in the spotlight for the wrong reasons again due to Monday’s bad news that outfielder Mike Tauchman is probably done for the season with a Grade 2 left calf strain.

Calf strains are going to happen about as frequently as groin and hamstring injuries, but Tauchman blew out his calf after being bothered by it for a few days and not being shut down.

It was apparent that something was wrong with Tauchman last Friday night when he was pinch-hit for in the eighth inning of a 6-1 loss to Boston. No injury was announced and Tauchman started the next two days, but in the second he exited in the fourth inning after charging in from left to field a base hit and feeling a lot worse.

After Sunday night’s game, Tauchman admitted for the first time that his calf had been a bit of an issue. Boone also admitted it, too. His MRI in New York on Monday morning confirmed it’s now a much-bigger deal ... one that probably will keep him off the field until 2020.

So why was Tauchman playing at all this weekend? Why not let his calf completely heal to improve the chances that he’d get over it, especially considering how much the Yankees have been counting on Tauchman with Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Hicks on the IL for most of the season.

Boone was asked in his pre-game media session Monday if there was consideration of not playing Tauchman while his calf was bothering him.

“Not shut him down,” the manager answered before a 5-0 Yankees win. “I was going to give him (Monday off) against the (Red Sox) lefty (starter Eduardo Rodriguez). He would have gotten days coming out of an off day. So there would have been days kind of similar to what we plan on doing with most of our guys moving forward over these final few weeks.”

Days off here and there wasn’t the right call, but don’t blame Boone for this. He plays the players that are available to him after consulting with the player and his medical staff.

Considering everything that’s gone down this season – injury after injury from spring training on – you’d think the trainers and doctors would be playing it extra, extra safe in September because the Yankees will go into the postseason as one of the World Series favorites.

Oh, one more thing: Tauchman’s replacement in left on Sunday night and in the starting lineup on Monday night was Cameron Maybin, who hasn’t been shut down even though he’s had a left wrist issue that is severe enough that he had no at-bats for a week before getting two on Sunday night.

If Maybin’s wrist gets worse, the Yankees will have to use defensively challenge Clint Frazier and infielder Tyler Wade in left until Stanton makes his expected return from a knee injury.

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But the way Stanton’s season has gone, would it surprise anyone if he has as setback in the next week? Before this long IL stint, Stanton was sidelined from early April until June with a biceps injury that led to shoulder problems and a much-longer layoff.

Maybe all of this is just really bad luck, but something smells fishy, and because of it, look for heads to roll regardless of whether the Yankees’ 2019 seasons ends with a ticker-tape parade down Broadway.

Randy Miller may be reached at rmiller@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @RandyJMiller. Find NJ.com on Facebook.