Oswaldo Cabrera not ruling out late-season Yankees return after gruesome injury: Small possibility
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“I feel like good things can be on my way.I’m gonna work to get there.”Aaron Boone and the Yankees have no doubt of that.“I don’t think we’re necessarily expecting it, but you never know how he heals in the next couple months,” Boone said when asked if there was a chance of Cabrera returning.
“One thing with Oswaldo is there’s not a better person who loves this as much as him.He’ll pour himself into rehab.”Cabrera suffered the gruesome injury racing to the plate as he made an awkward move toward the plate while avoiding Cal Raleigh’s tag attempt on an Aaron Judge sacrifice fly to right field.
He managed to score the run in the win in Seattle on May 12, but immediately went down in pain.Asked if he’d do anything different on the play, Cabrera said, “Maybe a slide.”Cabrera said plates and screws were inserted into the ankle during the surgery and he started to get over the mental hurdles of the injury “right away.”Without Cabrera, whose performance was largely up and down at third base prior to the injury, the Yankees have most recently turned to Jazz Chisholm Jr.since his return from the IL with a right oblique strain, with DJ LeMahieu more comfortable at second base.Marcus Stroman tossed two innings of live batting practice Thursday at the Stadium, with Boone saying the right-hander is being built up as a starter.“We’re getting him r...