TAMPA – Austin Wells stepped into batter boxes on multiple occasions for live batting practice during the first week of camp.
He hasn't waved bats yet.
The Yankees catcher who swings in an indoor cage on Sunday said the decision has nothing to do with the injury and he is “not ready yet.”
“I was hitting something faster towards the end of this week [indoors]maybe just getting ready for the game the week after they started,” Wells said Sunday. “I played just late so take it a little more slowly.”
Wells is away from last season's heavy catching workload after approaching a full-time job in July.
He had a big stride defensively but appeared as a key bat during the summer – which led to him becoming a clean-up batter – he ran out of gas in September and escaped to the playoffs It looked like that.
The finalists for Al Rookie of the Year hit .259 in 94 games that took place in September with .795 OPS and 12 home runs, then batted .111 on .111 and hit one in the final 21 games. He hit a home run.
He then hit .120 with a .460 OPS in the postseason.
“I was definitely not satisfied with how it ended for me,” Wells said. “But I'm not even sure if it's fatigue or not. I'm going with no. I'm going with it, part of the year. But definitely feeling It's good 1739776353 And it's ready to roll. ”
Wells also suffered a hit to the pitch on September 2nd with his right wrist/hand, but it was unclear if that had anything to do with his decline.
Jake Cousins is unlikely to start the season on time due to forearm tension, but the reliever, which will be closure for three to four weeks on Monday, is on track to make his recovery well. I think so.
“We don't want this to be something I'll deal with throughout the season, so we want to make sure it's gone,” Cousins said. “If we miss a few weeks and I'm healthy for the rest of the season, the overall goal is to be healthy.”
My cousin felt the pain was getting worse a few days after the bullpen session during the offseason.
However, he said UCL “looked great” on the MRI.
As SNY first reported, Roger Clemens will be one of the guest instructors at Yankee Camp for the first time this spring, with seven CY Young winners expected on Friday.
Bench coach Brad Orsk pulled the hamstring “pretty bad” in Saturday's pickup basketball game, according to manager Aaron Boone.
“Obviously, I advised him not to do that, obviously,” said Boone, who infamously tore his ACL while playing basketball before the 2004 season. . “But he wanted to take his 55-year-old deed there anyway.”
