TAMPA — Luis Severino threw two innings of stay batting observe on Tuesday as he prepares to return to the Yankees rotation.
“He’s keen proper now,’’ supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “He’s most likely our most-ahead pitcher so far as on the point of go.”
Severino returned from Tommy John surgical procedure and different setbacks to pitch 7 ¹/₃ innings final yr — together with the postseason — after lacking most of 2019 and 2020.
The supervisor indicated Severino’s subsequent step may very well be in a spring coaching recreation.
“I feel getting again final yr was not solely necessary for us, as a result of he pitched so effectively for us and was an element for us down the stretch, nevertheless it was actually good for him to construct some momentum going into the offseason, and he’s carried that with him,’’ Boone mentioned. “He’s taken his weight loss plan very severely. I really feel like he’s on a mission to exit and actually re-establish himself as one of many nice starters on this league.”
Boone mentioned he expects Severino to be within the rotation, and there’s no innings-limit but.
“We’ll simply take heed to the stuff and the physique and see the place we are able to take him,’’ the supervisor mentioned. “We’ll definitely be cautious at occasions, I’m certain, however nothing in concrete that we’ve sat down and mentioned, ‘That is the innings we’re capturing for.’ We’re a great distance off. We simply need him to be wholesome.”
The information additionally seems to be encouraging on Jameson Taillon, who's coming off ankle tendon surgical procedure. He mentioned he’s on monitor to be prepared to begin the season within the rotation — one thing that didn’t appear probably following the process.
“The massive factor was it’s not a quite common baseball harm,’’ Taillon mentioned of the tendon challenge, which he mentioned he nonetheless doesn’t know the way he suffered. “They gave me a timeline, and the buildup [to the season] has not been fairly so long as I assumed it could be.”
He's scheduled to throw a stay bullpen session on Wednesday, his first of the spring.
Giancarlo Stanton is able to play the outfield once more.
“Much like how [last] season left off — a pair occasions per week is nice,’’ Stanton mentioned. “Give everybody a blow, whoever wants it and have a superb rotation on the market.”
Stanton performed 26 video games within the outfield in 2021, and his protection was higher than anticipated.
Boone expects Stanton to be on the market “a good quantity. … It clearly went rather well final yr. It was one thing he needed to do. I feel he was most likely even pleasantly shocked how effectively his physique was responding.’’
Stanton believes it helped his recreation total.
“I loved it,’’ Stanton mentioned. “It saved me transferring round. It wasn’t type of the start-stop routine of DHing.”
— Extra reporting by Greg Joyce
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