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CLEARWATER, Fla. — After all that Scott Effross did to come back from Tommy John and back surgeries, he is now hamstrung once again.
Tests revealed that the Yankees reliever suffered a Grade 2 hamstring strain on the first and only pitch of his outing Tuesday against the Twins, which will sideline him for the foreseeable future.
“He’s going to need some time,” manager Aaron Boone said Thursday before the Yankees faced the Phillies at BayCare Ballpark.
Effross was scheduled for a PRP injection on Thursday to help the healing process, but Grade 2 strains typically take weeks to come back from.
“I think he’s pretty bummed about it, with all that he’s done to get back,” Boone said. “But at the end of the day, it’s a hamstring. We’ll get through it. He should be able to keep his arm going to some degree and hopefully not, in the long haul, trip him up too much.”
Effross had been trending toward claiming a spot in the Yankees bullpen, with his stuff looking much crisper early in camp than it did last season, when he made it back to the big leagues for only three September outings.
The 31-year-old side-armer, acquired from the Cubs at the 2022 trade deadline, has only pitched in 16 games for the Yankees because of his various injuries.