Marcus Stroman will get Yankees starting chance in As finale after rocky rehab

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.Marcus Stroman is back in the picture. The veteran who had struggled to begin this season and struggled during a rehab assignment will get a chance to put those issues behind him, tabbed to be the starter for Sunday’s series finale against the A’s. Before Friday’s 3-0 series-opening win in The Bronx, manager Aaron Boone said the club had not yet decided whether Stroman or Allan Winans would get the ball. After the game — and after Boone watched Stroman throw a bullpen session that left him encouraged — the decision to give the 34-year-old another shot was reached. “Wanted to see him today, make sure he was in a good spot, good with his pen and everything,” Boone said of Stroman, who finished an uninspiring rehab assignment in which he pitched to a 6.97 ERA in three outings. In his most recent start, Tuesday with Double-A Somerset, the righty allowed five runs on 10 hits in 3 ²/₃ innings.

Often a rehabbing pitcher — Stroman had been recovering from left knee inflammation that has sidelined him since April 11— will work on his stuff and his mechanics and ignore the results, and the club will hope that is the case. The Yankees decided against Winans, though the righty remains on the active roster and warmed up Friday when Will Warren slogged through a long first inning.The 29-year-old righty made his club debut in Cincinnati on Monday, when he threw three scoreless frames before being knocked around in the fourth inning, charged with four runs in 4 ¹/₃ innings. The soft-tossing Winans had impressed with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, with whom he owned just a 0.90 ERA in 50 innings and 11 games this season. The club has needed to replace Ryan Yarbrough, who was placed on the IL with a strained oblique on Sunday. Ben Rice caught Warren in his second career start behind the plate and received str...