{"id":587076,"date":"2026-04-16T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:29:08","slug":"yankees-gerrit-cole-set-to-make-first-rehab-start-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587076\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Gerrit Cole set to make first rehab start Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Yankees<\/a> right-hander Gerrit Cole<\/a>, sidelined since undergoing Tommy John surgery in March 2025, will make his first rehab start Friday with Double-A Somerset, manager Aaron Boone said Wednesday after his club’s 5-4 walk-off win<\/a> over the Los Angeles Angels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Team officials were deciding between having Cole pitch in a game or in another simulated setting going into his side session Wednesday after he tossed 42 pitches over three innings in a live batting practice Sunday.<\/p>\n

“I have no complaints,” Cole said Monday of Sunday’s live batting practice session. “Stamina was good. Pitches are fine — they’re good, they’re good. I’m being a little nitpicky, but everything’s good.”<\/p>\n

Before Wednesday’s game, Boone said Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a>, who underwent left elbow surgery to remove bone chips in October, will throw another live batting practice session Saturday rather than begin a rehab assignment. The left-hander threw 50 pitches in a simulated setting Monday at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

While Rod\u00f3n has not pitched in a game since the postseason in October, the 35-year-old Cole appeared in two games during spring training, logging 2 innings. The six-time All-Star and 2023 American League Cy Young Award winner had previously not pitched in a competitive game since starting Game 5 of the 2024 World Series.<\/p>\n

Cole will join shortstop Anthony Volpe<\/a> on rehab assignment with Somerset. Volpe played in his first game since undergoing surgery to repair a partially torn labrum in his left shoulder in October for Somerset on Tuesday. He logged five innings at shortstop and went 0-for-2 with two strikeouts against rehabbing Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> ace Zack Wheeler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Volpe was back at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday and went through drill work pregame. He is scheduled to return to Somerset to play Thursday, Friday and Sunday before possibly joining Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre next week.<\/p>\n

“I want to run the bases,” Volpe said. “I want to dive.<\/p>\n

“Those are kind of the checkpoints that I want to see out of myself. And then get into the flow of the season. Go night to day, go back to back. Get my innings up. I want to do that as soon as I can.”<\/p>\n

Volpe played through the shoulder injury for most of last season. He and the Yankees said it did not affect his performance, but he regressed offensively and defensively from 2024, finishing as one of the least productive everyday players in the majors with an 83 wRC+ and 1.0 fWAR in 153 games.<\/p>\n

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman recently said Volpe will return as the team’s starting shortstop. Jose Caballero<\/a> has assumed the role in Volpe’s absence and was a central figure in New York’s walk-off wins against the Angels on Monday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he doubled, stole third base and scored the winning run on a wild pitch. On Wednesday, after playing standout defense throughout the night, he delivered the game-winning two-run double to complete a rally ignited by the Angels allowing Jazz Chisholm Jr<\/a>.’s one-out popup in the infield to drop.<\/p>\n

But Caballero was scuffling mightily before this week’s heroics and is batting .186 with a .543 OPS in 63 plate appearances this season.br\/]<\/p>\n

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