Luis Severino will make one other rehab begin for Double-A Somerset on Wednesday and may very well be again within the rotation for his following begin, constructed as much as round 70 pitches.
His focus, although, is on greater than the common season.
The fitting-hander, out with a lat pressure that landed him on the 60-day IL, mentioned the Yankees can get again to the place they had been within the first half and might erase their latest struggles with a future in October.
“We’re nonetheless the identical workforce,” Severino mentioned earlier than Tuesday’s rainout in opposition to the Twins. “We received the final two video games. We will’t do [anything] in regards to the video games we misplaced [before]. We will do one thing about tomorrow’s sport and after that.”
And he’s assured they're nonetheless poised for playoff success, with the Astros of their crosshairs.
“100%,’’ Severino mentioned. “We really feel that’s the workforce to beat within the playoffs. All of the historical past we've got [with them], we've got a chip on our shoulders. We [are] making an attempt to be the perfect.’’
In the event that they flip it round and do nicely within the playoffs, Severino mentioned, what occurred in August received’t matter.
“If we win 10 in a row, no one will bear in mind the video games we misplaced,’’ mentioned Severino, who disagreed with the concept followers have been too exhausting on the workforce throughout its latest slide.
“Completely not,’’ Severino mentioned. “We’re the New York Yankees. We’re presupposed to win. We’re presupposed to be the perfect.”
Aaron Boone mentioned he spoke with Josh Donaldson after the third baseman was thrown out at second base on Monday after observing his fly ball.
“We talked about it,” Boone mentioned. “[I said], ‘Let’s not let that occur.’ ”
However Boone added he doesn’t see it as a problem for Donaldson, who has had a disappointing first season with the Yankees.
“I don’t actually fear about him from [being in the] sport or attached standpoint,’’ Boone mentioned.
“He’s locked in. That was simply a type of the place you higher be certain.”
Donaldson additionally has only one extra-base hit and one RBI in his final 10 video games, going 5-for-30 throughout that stretch.
Group president Randy Levine mentioned on “The Present” with The Put up’s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman that Boone has “completed job,” however his future can be decided after the season.
“He’s gonna must be evaluated on the finish of the season to see the place we're,’’ Levine mentioned.
Levine additionally praised Boone’s résumé with the Yankees.
“He’s bought a fantastic monitor document,” Levine mentioned. “He’s received a whole lot of video games. We haven’t received a World Sequence [in his tenure]. That’s unhealthy, not simply him. Everybody on this group has a duty, from [owner] Hal [Steinbrenner], to me, to [GM Brian Cashman], to everybody concerned.”
Ronald Guzman hit 16 house runs as a rookie with the Rangers in 2018, however by no means matched that success once more, impacted by accidents.
He was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday to switch the injured Anthony Rizzo. Guzman had an OPS of .823 in 90 video games with SWB.
“It’s been a protracted course of,’’ the lefty-swinging Guzman mentioned. “I really feel actually good on the plate proper now.”
Boone mentioned the 27-year-old Guzman “made an enormous impression” in spring coaching.
Trey Sweeney was the newest shortstop prospect to be promoted, from Excessive-A Hudson Valley to Double-A Somerset, the place he’ll change Anthony Volpe, just lately bumped to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Oswald Peraza went from SWB to the Yankees final week.
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