Thursday, July 12, 2007
NY Post: PHIL IN THE BLANK
Brian Cashman has an idea when Phil Hughes will be ready to provide the Yankees with a much-needed boost it the back of their rotation, but the GM isn’t ready to make it public.
“We have a timeline, but we aren’t going to announce it,” Cashman said yesterday. Out since May 1, when Hughes pulled a left hamstring, he later sprained an ankle doing agility drills in Tampa on May 25.
The prized pitching prospect makes his second minor-league rehab start tomorrow night for Trenton (Double-A). Though the Yankees certainly would welcome Hughes and delete disappointing Kei Igawa from the fifth spot in the rotation, don’t figure on that happening soon.
Without a setback or a rainout altering the schedule, Hughes is likely to make his fifth rehab start July 28. Based on the amount of innings he has thrown and his health, five games may be enough for him to be ready. When he is, Igawa will either slide into long relief or be sent back to the minors.
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