Gerrit Cole spoke to reporters at Fenway Park the day after his most recent rehab start with Scranton. Did he hint that his next outing will come with the Yankees?
On Saturday, reigning American League Cy Young winner Gerrit Cole rejoined the Yankees at Fenway Park a day after his impressive third rehab start with the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
Cole racked up 10 strikeouts across 4.1 innings while allowing one unearned run on 70 pitches for Scranton on Friday night. Now, the Yankees will get together with their ace and figure out what his next step will be.that he feels really good following his latest rehab start. He also revealed that he does not expect to be fully built up to100-pitches when he does rejoin the Yankee rotation. For that, he acknowledged that there is still a bit of a ways to go regarding being fully back to himself.
As previously mentioned, Cole stretched out to 70 pitches with the RailRiders last night. The Yankees could potentially choose to activate him this week for a crucial series in the Bronx with the AL East rival Baltimore Orioles, and give him a pitch count of 75-80 pitches. But if they decide to give him a fourth rehab start instead, which could come with Scranton again, then it would likely be his final minor league outing.
Cole has played it cool since his rehab assignment began on June 4 in terms of approaching things from a rational standpoint. The Yankees lost right-handed starter Clarke Schmidt to a lat injury in late-May, but that did not change Cole's timeline. An elbow injury in Spring Training sidelined Cole until he finally got back into live game action with Somerset 11 days ago. His comments to Hoch about not anticipating being fully stretched out when he makes his major league return possibly indicates that his season debut with the Yankees could be coming this week. If not, he will be back shortly thereafter.Pat Ragazzo is the reporter, publisher, site manager and executive editor for the Mets and Yankees websites on Sports Illustrated.
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