Luis Severino made it known that he wasn’t happy with the Yankees’ decision to place him on the 60-day IL the day he was set to begin a throwing program, but general manager Brian Cashman told Carton and Roberts on Wednesday that there was a misunderstanding with what the righty’s initial recovery timeline actually was.
“He’s not ready to be pitching,” Cashman said. “Just like right now, [Harrison] Bader is not on the 60 but we can move him if we need to based on his timeframe. The only difference in Sevy’s case is that he never mapped out with our trainers it would take so long, so when he got upset, he was under a false belief he was going to come back sooner."
Severino, who had been one of the better pitchers in the Yankee rotation before suffering a low-grade lat strain, hasn’t had a full season workload since 2018 because of injuries, but Cashman still believes if his recovery goes as planned and he returns by mid-September, he will still be able to be a factor in the starting rotation come playoff time.
“We already saw how he went through last year when we brought him back as a reliever because we ran out of clock,” Cashman said. “He’ll have rehab starts to properly build up his load, and we’ll have access to five regular season starts, which should be enough time to get sharp. Assuming everything goes right and there’s no guarantee there.”
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