DETROIT — DJ LeMahieu rejoined the Yankees on Monday and it wasn’t simply to get just a few days in his residence state.
The veteran infielder is about to work out with the Yankees throughout their three-game sequence at Comerica Park, and if he will get by way of that with none points, will probably begin a rehab task on Friday, supervisor Aaron Boone stated.
LeMahieu has been sidelined since final month with a calf pressure that he suffered in his second at-bat of the spring on March 1.
It was simply the most recent in a protracted checklist of lower-leg accidents which have derailed him over the previous few seasons.
As a result of he missed a lot of the spring, LeMahieu is predicted to want a prolonged rehab task to get a very good quantity of at-bats beneath his belt earlier than he could possibly be activated.
Rehab assignments for place gamers are capped at 20 days, that means LeMahieu might probably be again by the top of the month.
The 36-year-old reported to camp this 12 months feeling good however anxious to show that he might nonetheless assist the Yankees.
He was going to have an opportunity to win the third base job earlier than he obtained injured, with Oswald Peraza and Pablo Reyes now making up the right-handed hitting half of the platoon with Oswaldo Cabrera.
