When Will Luis Severino Pitch Again

TAMPA, Fla. – Just before Sunday's exhibition first, Luis Severino said he flashed back to the final time he'd warmed up for a Yankees' Grapefruit League game.

In the spring of 2019, Severino felt something incorrect in his shoulder during the routine pregame bullpen session and aborted his first against the Braves.

A twelvemonth afterward, the right-hander injure his elbow and soon underwent Tommy John surgery, followed by a series of physical setbacks.

And then, afterwards he completed Sunday's pregame bullpen, "I felt relieved,'' said Severino, who gave up four runs against Detroit in ii innings – his first exhibition advent since 2018.

Since the 2022 season, Severino has pitched merely 27.ii innings for the Yankees, including 9.ii postseason innings.

Severino has not started a regular flavor game since the 2022 season, his concluding All-Star season.

Now, "I'm full go,'' said Severino, existence counted upon again as a frontline starter. "If I'one thousand healthy, I know the kind of pitcher that I am and what I tin can bring to the team.''

Severino finally made four appearances as a reliever last September, providing something to build on for 2022.

In that location has not been any organizational give-and-take – at to the lowest degree not nonetheless – about the number of starts or innings he might be expected to pitch, though "it's something we'll monitor closely,'' Boone said.

The manager likewise referenced Jameson Taillon, coming off a 2nd rehab for Tommy John surgery last twelvemonth, as someone who exceeded the Yankees' preseason workload expectation.

Severino was dialing his fastball up to 98 mph already Sunday in 38 pitches confronting the Tigers, though his command and location were wobbly.

"Stuff-wise and physical, I thought he was proficient,'' said Boone.

And Severino said the victory for this first time out in 2022 was but coming through it physically fine.

Now, "if I take four (bound preparation) outings, that's good enough for me,'' Severino said of preparing for a full season in the rotation.

Asked if he and ace Gerrit Cole could be to the Yanks what Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer are to the Mets, Severino laughed a bit and said: "I don't know almost that. But Cole is a dandy pitcher (and) if I'm good for you, I know the kind of pitcher I am.''

With Severino, "I wouldn't be surprised by annihilation he does, from a ceiling standpoint,'' Boone said.

Stake a merits

On Sun evening, the Yankees announced they had claimed lefty reliever Yoan Aybar off waivers from the Colorado Rockies.

That movement puts the Yankees' 40-man roster back at capacity.

Last year, Aybar spent the flavor at Class AA Hartford, pitching to a 6.22 ERA in 49 games, with 53 strikeouts in 46.ane innings.

Originally signed past the Cherry-red Sox in 2013, Aybar, 24, was an outfielder during his first four pro seasons until transitioning to pitching afterwards the 2022 season.

An excused absence

Second baseman Gleyber Torres was in, out and finally in Boone'south Sunday lineup against the Tigers.

Torres' wife is expected the couple's first child at any moment, and the organization was led to believe that moment might be Sunday morning time. Information technology wasn't, and Torres singled and walked in two plate appearances.

A modest stir

Yankees infield prospect Oswaldo Cabrera, who belted 29 home runs in 118 minor league games final year (topping out at Triple-A), hit a grand slam in the late, 8-vii loss to Detroit at Steinbrenner Field, with 9,502 fans present.

As per leap tradition, the Yanks wore their total uniforms for the home Grapefruit League opener and not-roster lefty Manny Banuelos tossed a scoreless inning with a strikeout.

If that name is familiar, Banuelos, 31, was a big-time Yankees pitching prospect who never panned out and finally made the Majors (briefly) with the 2022 Braves and 2022 White Sox.

"Smooth, easy, that's what we've seen and so far,'' Boone said of Banuelos' delivery. "He's got a nice presence to him. He looks practiced.''

Pete Caldera is the Yankees beat writer for NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to all Yankees analysis, news, trades and more, please subscribe today and download our app.

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