Luis Severino pissed off by Yankees slow-playing harm return after ‘pointless’ delay
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Luis Severino is able to lastly begin his rehab task this week.
Then once more, he felt ready last week, too, earlier than the Yankees modified their thoughts on beginning his rehab clock and had him throw one other simulated sport on Friday in Tampa as an alternative.
“I believe it was pointless to not throw in Low-A, however I do no matter they inform me to do,” Severino mentioned Sunday morning at Tropicana Discipline. “However I really feel good.”
Severino was in a superb temper, smiling with some jokes on the prepared whereas talking with reporters about his restoration from the strained lat he sustained within the ultimate week of spring coaching.
Nevertheless it was clear he was pissed off with how the Yankees have slow-played his return.
A couple of days after the harm occurred in late March, Severino mentioned he hoped to solely miss three or 4 begins, a timeline that the Yankees initially gave the impression to be according to.
As a substitute, Severino can have missed a minimum of 9 or 10 begins by the point he returns in late Might, if every thing continues to go as deliberate.
Supervisor Aaron Boone had mentioned the Yankees opted to have Severino throw one other simulated sport on Friday with a view to have a extra controllable atmosphere.
Requested in the event that they defined to him why that wasn’t a rehab begin as an alternative, Severino mentioned with a smile, “They tried to, however no matter.”
“On the finish, if I’m the one one who desires one thing and so they don’t agree with that, they’re not going to let me do one thing,” Severino mentioned. “However hopefully, for now on, they belief me extra and attempt to let me compete extra.”
The plan now’s for Severino to start his rehab task on Wednesday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre — although the right-hander mentioned he would like Thursday as a result of the Wednesday sport is an 11:05 a.m. begin and he doesn’t wish to spend the night time earlier than in Scranton or drive in early that morning.
Severino hopes to solely want two rehab begins, which Boone mentioned could be the minimal, earlier than rejoining the Yankees rotation.
He threw 40 pitches in Friday’s sim sport and is in line to throw round 50 in his first rehab begin — “or 41,” Severino cracked.
On a extra critical observe, the right-hander mentioned he would get extra out of a rehab begin than a sim sport as a result of he must get used to the pitch timer once more and face hitters who’re nearer to the main leagues.
Boone mentioned that Severino’s intensive harm historical past — together with a lat pressure final season that finally landed him on the 60-day IL, a transfer with which Severino was brazenly sad — performs “slightly little bit of a job” within the Yankees dealing with his rehab cautiously.
“Nevertheless it’s additionally an method of constructing beginning pitchers up conservatively and understanding that these pitches, whether or not it’s between 40 and 60 and 70, are the instances you gotta be conscious,” Boone mentioned. “Once you make massive jumps, historical past will let you know these are the instances that pitchers generally is a little extra susceptible to accidents.
“The underside line is we would like a wholesome Luis Severino again in our rotation impacting us. We’re all trying ahead to that.”