Blue Jays’ Varsho may go back all the way through sequence in opposition to Yankees

Daulton Varsho will likely be within the lineup for the triple-A Buffalo Bisons on Friday because the designated hitter, his 6th minor-league look all the way through this rehab task and 3rd at DH, supervisor John Schneider mentioned on Sportsnet’s Blair and Barker on Friday.

There is an out of doors likelihood that Varsho will go back to the big-league membership this weekend in New York in opposition to the Yankees, however it is extra possible he makes his 2025 debut in Toronto subsequent week, Schneider added.

The 2024 Gold Glover’s begin to the season has been not on time after he underwent shoulder surgical treatment in September.

Starting pitcher Max Scherzer performed catch Friday after making growth throwing from flat floor on Monday in Houston. Scherzer has won two cortisone photographs in his thumb whilst coping with nagging soreness.

Right-handed reliever Nick Sandlin is again in Toronto whilst the Blue Jays whole their highway go back and forth and has but to begin throwing after being positioned at the 15-day injured checklist with a proper lat pressure on April 20. The earliest Sandlin can be eligible to go back is May 5.

Erik Swanson — who was once positioned at the 15-day IL retroactive to March 24 at the beginning of the season — threw 16 pitches over one inning all the way through a longer spring coaching recreation on Friday. Schneider mentioned that Swanson felt excellent.

The 31-year-old aid pitcher was once identified with median nerve entrapment all the way through spring coaching after experiencing elbow discomfort however didn’t have any structural injury after present process an MRI.