NEW YORK -- Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Sunday that the club is expecting ace Luis Severino to remain on the injured list through the first half of the season.
"You won't see him until after the All-Star break, in our minds," Cashman said on SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio's "The Front Office" show.
The Yankees hadn't issued a timeline for Severino's return, but it seemed likely that it would occur close to the All-Star break in July. Severino is resting from the right lat strain he was diagnosed with last month.
Severino is in the middle of the fourth week of six during which he isn't allowed to throw. He will resume a throwing program thereafter.
On April 10, while continuing rehab on a separate injury (right rotator cuff inflammation), Severino underwent an MRI to figure out why he hadn't been able to get back from the rotator cuff issue as quickly as anticipated. The lat strain was found on that MRI. Severino later said he believed the injury happened at the same time as the rotator cuff injury, which he felt while warming up for a spring training game March 5.
Along with the timeline on Severino, Cashman breezed through a few other injury updates Sunday:
Frazier was to play in a rehab game Sunday with Double-A Trenton, but inclement weather forced the postponement of that game.
"He's gone through this before, where he has to take a timeout and get an injection and then get going again," Cashman said, referencing an injury he said Paxton had while in Seattle a few seasons ago.
Cashman said it will be "sometime in June" that Betances is back in pinstripes.
"He's still a ways away," the GM said.
By next weekend, the Yankees could start getting Stanton into rehab games.
The center fielder is participating in extended spring training games at the Yankees' facility in Tampa, Florida. As early as this week, Hicks could begin a rehab assignment with the High-A Tampa Tarpons, Cashman said.
"We're hopeful as early as next weekend he could get activated," Cashman said.
With his team at 18-14 entering play Sunday, Cashman said he is pleased with the way the Yankees have weathered their early-season injury storm.
"The record, where we stand despite that kind of adversity on the injured list, we'll certainly take and sign up for every day of the week," he said.