Frustration with the Yankees has been bubbling all season, though the idea that the decimated team will get some of its key players healthy and back soon has prevented things from reaching a true boiling point.
Some news out of the Hudson Valley this weekend turned the heat up a few more degrees.
Luis Severino was making a rehab start on Saturday with the High-A Hudson Valley Renegades. A right groin injury put the kibosh on that, and an MRI the next day revealed a significant setback that pushes his recovery timeline even further, according to Aaron Boone.
“He has a low Grade 2 groin strain,” Boone said before Tuesday’s game in Buffalo. “He’s in New York now, he’s actually already up and doing some things on the treadmill and other things like that. He’ll probably try and keep his arm going with some light catch. We’ll certainly probably hold his return back by about a month, we think. We were hoping to get him back by the end of this month. That’ll, obviously, be on hold.”
Severino was with the Renegades to rehab his arm. The abbreviated start was just his second with the minor league club following Tommy John surgery in February 2020. This lower body injury presents a new issue, one unrelated to the surgically repaired arm that was reportedly hitting 98 miles per hour.
“There’s nothing to my knowledge that we’ve identified mechanically that was out of whack,” Boone clarified. “One of the good things about Sevy’s rehab process is that he’s really in tremendous shape and has gotten his body as strong and as efficient as it’s ever been. At this point it seems like it was just a freak thing, but obviously it’s something that we’ll tap into and continue to evaluate.”
