{"id":676828,"date":"2026-04-16T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:36:30","slug":"yankees-news-gerrit-cole-to-rehab-in-somerset-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676828\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Gerrit Cole to rehab in Somerset on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

SNY | Chelsea Janes<\/a>: For the first time since the 2025 postseason, Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe played a competitive baseball game. It happened to be with the Yanks\u2019 Double-A affiliate, the Somerset Patriots, as he starts his rehab assignment after offseason labrum surgery. He said he felt great and called it a big milestone.<\/p>\n

Regarding the next steps in his recovery process, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said that he will play minor league games until at least next week. After resting on Wednesday, he will return for five-plus frames on Thursday and Friday, then take a day off Saturday, and play again on Sunday. After Monday\u2019s offday, he\u2019ll likely go to Scranton to continue his rehab. \u201cProbably four or five games next week, then we\u2019ll kind of evaluate and see where we\u2019re at from there,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n

In the postgame following the Yanks\u2019 exciting win on Wednesday, Boone dropped another nugget: Gerrit Cole will be joining Volpe on the rehab trail with Somerset. It\u2019ll be his first pro start since underdoing Tommy John surgery in March 2025. Obviously he has a long way to go to build up, but it\u2019s a significant milestone for the ace on his journey back to a big-league mound.<\/p>\n

NY Daily News | Gary Phillips<\/a>: After sending Yerry De Los Santos back to Triple-A late on Tuesday, the Yankees announced the promotion of Angel Chivilli on Wednesday to take a place on the roster and in the bullpen<\/a>. He has pitched 8.1 perfect innings with Scranton so far after a rough spring. The 23-year-old had a 6.18 ERA over 73 MLB games in Colorado in the last two seasons, 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think there\u2019s more room there for his secondary to become really good pitches for him,\u201d Aaron Boone said. \u201cFor him, it\u2019s about controlling the strike zone and command. If he can control counts, he\u2019s got some swing and miss with his secondary stuff. The fastball is big. He\u2019ll be in the mid-to-upper-90s with his fastball, but he needs his secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Post | Mark W. S\u00e1nchez<\/a>: If you thought Ryan McMahon\u2019s recent bunt attempt was bizarre, well, it appears to be part of a broader organizational focus on bunting. Before the Yankees\u2019 official round of batting practice on Tuesday, Jos\u00e9 Caballero, Cody Bellinger, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Trent Grisham, and Ryan McMahon took turns to lay down bunts against a pitching machine. What does this mean for the Yankees and their 2026 approach? We don\u2019t know, but Austin Wells successfully got on base with a bunt on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

FanGraphs | Dan Szymborski<\/a>: Even though he hasn\u2019t played every day, Ben Rice is terrorizing the league already. Szymborski marvels at his 70 percent hard-hit rate and says he\u2019s here to stay. \u201cIf you\u2019re a fan of another team in the AL East, as I am (Baltimore Orioles), you\u2019ve probably been waiting for Rice to come crashing back to Earth. Given how he\u2019s hit in 2026, however, I fear we\u2019ll have to pin our collective hopes on other sources of Yankees misfortune. Ben Rice\u2019s power is real and it is spectacular,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Yahoo Sports | Jake Mintz<\/a>: This is a wonderful tribute to the 103-year-old Rachel Robinson, Jackie\u2019s widow, with a touching article praising her legacy on his day. Shared are stories of how they met, how they fell in love, and how she helped one of the most prominent figures in baseball history through thick and thin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout Jackie\u2019s most tumultuous times, Rachel was a rock, there by his side as he broke baseball\u2019s color barrier,\u201d Mintz wrote. It\u2019s definitely worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SNY | Chelsea Janes: For the first time since the 2025 postseason, Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe played a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142,42069,3881],"class_list":{"0":"post-676828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-yankees","15":"tag-yankees-link-roundup","16":"tag-yankees-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116413713419387241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}