Brian Cashman acknowledged that injuries are “certainly killing” the Yankees.

In the early days of May, though, he believes there is time for a revival rather than an autopsy.

“Don’t count us out,” the Yankees general manager said in his first news conference of the season. “Don’t give up on us.

“We got a good group of people player-wise, staff-wise, support-staff-wise. It’s a championship-caliber operation.”

Cashman held court in the home dugout before the Yankees’ 4-3, 10-inning win over the Guardians in The Bronx on Wednesday, a game they entered in last place in the AL East and with 12 players lost to the injured list. Aaron Judge (right hip strain) is only the latest to hit the IL, notably joining Giancarlo Stanton (left hamstring strain) and three-fifths of the projected rotation in Carlos Rodon (left forearm strain and back issue), Luis Severino (right lat strain) and Frankie Montas (shoulder surgery). Plus, Harrison Bader and Oswald Peraza both exited Wednesday’s game with injuries.

Three times Cashman said it is a “long season,” and he did not want to panic after 32 games. In stating confidence the team would become whole eventually — with the exceptions of Lou Trivino and Scott Effross, who are done for the season — he signaled there were no trades on the horizon.

“We have time to make up ground, and we’re going to compete with who we have here,” Cashman said of the Yankees, who entered play 8 ¹/₂ games back of the first-place Rays. “We look forward to getting who we need back at a later date.”

Cashman did not point toward any individual for the injury rash — “It’s not our strength and conditioning department. It’s not how we train our players,” he said — and also did not blame players who came with injury histories.

Rodon, who was signed to a six-year, $162 million pact this offseason, was shelved in the spring due to a forearm strain and has not been able to continue his buildup because of a troublesome back. Rodon is coming off two seasons of mostly good health but had a litany of injury issues earlier in his career.

The Yankees traded for Montas at last year’s deadline, and his shoulder hampered him upon arriving. Montas acknowledged this spring he “wasn’t fully 100 percent” when the Yankees brought him in.

“Ultimately, we got all the information that we had access to,” Cashman said of Rodon and Montas. “In terms of Rodon, he came in, did the full physical. … In Montas’ case, we got all access to everything, including me talking to the player involved. When he was here, he was 100 percent healthy.”

The Yankees have been built more on upside than on dependability. Stanton has played more than 110 games in a season just one time since 2019. Rodon was shelved with shoulder fatigue in 2021, required Tommy John surgery in 2019 and arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder in 2017. Severino made three starts from 2019-21.

Cashman said the trio are “elite players when they’re healthy, and we just need to get them healthy.”

“Everybody’s roster has [injury-risk] guys like that,” Cashman added as part of a 28-minute, state-of-the-Yankees briefing. “Ultimately, the worst thing that could happen is when you have a lot of [injury] stuff happening at the same time, which is going on with us right now.

“Our intention is to withstand all that, and, once we get everybody back, hit our stride once again.”

Repeatedly, Cashman stated the Yankees roster that is playing is not the Yankees roster he envisioned when he put the team together, the blame going toward injuries rather than depth problems.

The injuries have not taken a toll on left field, though, which was not addressed this offseason. Oswaldo Cabrera and Aaron Hicks have received the majority of time at the spot and neither has hit.

Cashman said there were no regrets about the lack of action at the position and that he didn’t see “any missed opportunities with everything that was in play.” And he doesn’t anticipate any opportunity emerging soon to bolster the spot.

“Those opportunities don’t necessarily exist this early,” Cashman said.

The Yankees re-signed Cashman, in his 26th season as GM, to a four-year deal this offseason. In defending players and staff, he assumed liability for a troubling start to the season.

“You want to convict somebody, convict me,” Cashman said. “This is my responsibility.”