Brandon Brown
Reigning AL Cy Young winner Gerrit Cole took a big step toward returning to the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. Cole, who has been sidelined with nerve inflammation in his elbow since spring training, began his first minor league rehabilitation with New York’s Double-A affiliate, the Somerset Patriots. He threw 45 pitches in 3 1/3 scoreless innings.
In those 3 1/3 innings, Cole allowed two singles and no walks while striking out five. For what it’s worth, his fastball hit 90 mph at the ballpark gun, by The Athletic. Cole was scheduled to throw 40-50 pitches on Tuesday.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Cole will play “at least a couple” rehab games, by The Athletic. Rehabilitation pitchers typically add 15 pitches to their workload each interval, so after throwing 45 pitches on Tuesday, Cole is on track to throw 60 pitches in his next rehab start, and then 75 pitches in the start of rehabilitation after that. Depending on how things are going, it could be activated then.
Three rehab games with normal rest would put Cole on track to return on Wednesday, June 2. This would be the second game of a three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles, which would be good timing for the Yankees. To be clear, three rehab starts are just my speculation. The Yankees have not yet revealed an exact number of rehab starts.
“It just depends. Do we want to put him in a situation where he’s 60, 65, 70 shots?” Boone said last weekend about Cole’s rehabilitation period (Image: Disclosure)via MLB.com). “Do we want him to have one more (start of rehab)? We’ll have a better sense of that, and certainly Gerrit will have a better sense of that when he starts pitching in games.”
Of course, the Yankees are just fine without Cole. They entered the game on Tuesday with a 42-19 record, tied with the Philadelphia Phillies for the game’s best, and are allowing just 3.15 runs per game. That’s 0.31 runs per game better than any other team. That being said, this is Gerrit Cole. The sooner he comes back, the better it will be.
The Yankees lost right-hander Clarke Schmidt for one last strain last week and he is expected to miss two months, and possibly more. He made 11 starts with a 2.52 ERA before the injury and was one of New York’s most effective pitchers. Journeyman Cody Poteet was called up to replace Schmidt. He has a 2.45 ERA in two starts in 2024.
Cole, 33, led the American League in innings (209), ERA (2.63), ERA+ (165), WHIP (0.98) and WAR (7.4) en route to unanimously winning the Cy Young in 2023 It was his first career Cy Young, and his previous top five finishes in voting were the most ever for a pitcher at the time of his first Cy Young win.
Pitchers have a 30-day rehab window, so the Yankees must activate Cole by Thursday, July 4. They could always activate him early, but that’s the most he could return barring a setback or re-injury. Cole is in the 5th year of a nine-year, $324 million contract.
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