Yankees manager Aaron Boone offered positive updates on three pitchers who are currently in the minors — Clarke Schmidt, Lou Trivino and Scott Effross — before Sunday’s game against the Colorado Rockies.
Chief among them, Schmidt (right lat strain) is set to make his second rehab start Wednesday.
On the injured lists since May 30, Schmidt (5-3, 2.52 ERA) began his rehab assignment Friday with Double-A Somerset.
“He’s making another rehab start … Wednesday, his next one,” Boone said of Schmidt, who allowed one run on one hit — a solo shot — while striking out six and walking one in 3.2 IP. “So he’s in a good spot, but he’ll at least make another one.”
Also with the Patriots, except since Aug. 14, Trivino (Tommy John surgery recovery) “continues to improve each time.”
“He was a little slow coming back, but there’s been that steady improvement in his stuff and the crispness and the quality,” Boone said of Trivino, who last pitched in a regular-season game for the Yankees during the 2022 season. “So, yeah, he’s very much in the mix moving forward — as are a number of other guys — so we’ll see.”
Effross, who also last pitched for the Yankees in the 2022 season while recovering from right elbow surgery, spent rehab assignments at Low-A Tampa and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre before New York activated him July 15 but kept him with the RailRiders.
“Good,” Boone said of Effross, who has allowed 11 runs (10 earned) on 21 hits while striking out 20 and walking five in 22 IP over 19 games with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. “He’s been, I feel like, steadily improving, too, and just a lot more consistency. So he is somebody that’s very much in the mix, too.”
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