reports <\/a>Cruz will play for the Indians on Friday.<\/p>\nCruz was cleared for baseball activities last week, but was placed on the 60-day injured list last month with a broken hand.<\/p>\n
Pirates General Manager Ben Cherington said on his Insider Show earlier this week that Cruz was expected to begin a rehab assignment soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bones are healed, he\u2019s doing all baseball activities,\u201d said Cherington. \u201cIt\u2019s really just a matter of now, the bones are healed, but as you know, swinging the bat puts a lot of pressure on the hand and he\u2019s sort of re-acclimating to swinging the bat at full force now that his bones are healed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cruz was injured back in early June, sliding headfirst into home plate.<\/p>\n
Cruz will be a welcome addition to a Pirates offense that has struggled since the All-Star break. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report, Oneil Cruz is beginning a rehab assignment in Triple-A Indianapolis. Pirates beat reporter Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,39531,73,75,74,10997,10502],"class_list":["post-261074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baseball","tag-oneil-cruz","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-rehab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}