Ryan Weathers, meanwhile, is almost a week into his throwing program after being shut down for two weeks with a left forearm flexor strain, and is hoping to advance to a bullpen session on Monday.<\/p>\n
The left-hander, who expects to start throwing his hard slider on flat ground Saturday \u2014 at which point he will be throwing all his pitches again \u2014 is trying to talk his way into being activated as soon as possible so he can pitch in at least a game or two of the regular season before heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n
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Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt, who is looking to come back from Tommy John surgery, will make a fifth rehab appearance on Saturday. Corey Sipkin for New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously we\u2019re kind of fighting the clock right now and we\u2019re trying to be smart with it too,\u201d Weathers said. \u201cBut everything\u2019s trending in the right direction. \u2026 I have no doubt I could throw 40 pitches right now in a game. It\u2019s like, if I just need 20-25, I\u2019d rather use those in a game than burn them in a live [batting practice].<\/p>\n
\u201cI just would like to get an inning back in competition before [the playoffs]. Not that I don\u2019t trust myself in a wild card or division series, but it\u2019s more high-pressure and just [want to] get my feet back under me for an inning.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Yankees starter Ryan Weathers, is almost a week into his throwing program after being shut down for two weeks with a left forearm flexor strain. Jason Szenes for New York Post<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Caballero was out of the lineup Friday against the Mets for a second straight game, with Boone playing the hot hand at second base (without the injured Jazz Chisholm Jr.) in Anthony Volpe, who was called up on Thursday after learning the position at Triple-A.<\/p>\n
Boone acknowledged that he has spoken with Caballero \u2014 who the Yankees value as a 10th man off the bench \u2014 about the situation as they enter crunch time. <\/p>\n
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\u201cEveryone wants to play,\u201d Caballero said. \u201cEveryone wants a chance to be out here and playing.That\u2019s why we have a manager. He\u2019s the one making decisions to play or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all, as players, have to take it and be OK with it and try to do the best we can do in the role we got.\u201d<\/p>\n
After getting Thursday off, Aaron Judge (1-for-3 with a walk) returned to the lineup Friday in his third game back from missing three months with a right rib stress fracture. <\/p>\n
Boone said, \u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d when asked if Judge could play in all three games against the Mets.<\/p>\n
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The Yankees recalled reliever Bradley Hanner, returning to 14 pitchers on the 28-man roster after playing the Rockies series with an extra position player (Jasson Dom\u00ednguez, who was optioned to Triple-A after Thursday\u2019s game).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two starters are getting closer to coming off the injured list to help the Yankees in the bullpen.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68633,20,9,11,10,321,46142,319],"class_list":["post-344900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}