This is an important weekend for the Yankees’ hopes of getting a pair of left-handers back in their rotation — one more imminently than the other.
Carlos Rodon will make his third and likely final rehab start on Saturday with High-A Hudson Valley before potentially making his Yankees debut next Friday in The Bronx.
“Just because as far as I can remember, a couple weeks back or a month back, it was hard for me to even do what I did today,” Cortes said after throwing 20 pitches, most of them fastballs and cutters with a few sliders. “The day after I started, I really had to focus on recovery for me to be able to pitch my bullpen in between starts. I think today tells me I’m on the right track and hopefully everything’s out of the way.
But he is expected to build his pitch count to around 60 on Saturday — with Hudson Valley because Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Double-A Somerset are both on the road — after which the Yankees hope to insert him into their rotation.
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