Luis Gil might need one more minor-league rehab start before the 2024 AL Rookie of the Year comes back to the Yankees for his season debut. 

Aaron Boone mentioned there’s “probably a good chance” that Gil will have another start for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. This decision comes after Gil allowed five earned runs over 3 ¹/₃ innings Wednesday night for the RailRiders. 

“We haven’t made any final decisions on that,” Boone said prior to Friday’s 12-5 loss to the Phillies. “We’ll kind of work through it with this next side [session] and everything.” 

Gil has been out all season due to a lat injury he sustained during spring training. Wednesday’s game was his first appearance at Scranton after pitching in two games for Double-A Somerset. 

Boone was a midseason pickup by the Yankees in 2003. 

Like new third baseman Ryan McMahon, who was acquired Friday from MLB-worst Colorado and is expected to be available for Saturday’s game, Boone was thrust into a pennant race from the out-of-it Reds. 

“I think it helps having gone through it as a player,” Boone said. “I was acquired at the deadline, so it’s something that I’m very sensitive to, and I try to be really understanding that everyone is different, and you’re leaving a place, maybe, where you’ve been your entire career. 

“Just go, do your thing, and go find the role. But it’s our job, my job, staff, coaches, players to make sure they’re, first of all, welcomed, and and get them as comfortable as possible, as soon as possible.” 

Following the game, the Yankees optioned Scott Effross and Jorbit Vivas to Triple-A. 

Ryan Yarbrough (oblique strain) was slated to throw what Boone described as a “touch-and-feel” bullpen session Friday. 

“He finally feels like he’s through it now, and it’s just getting built up,” the manager said. 

Fernando Cruz (oblique strain) also has resumed his throwing program “with the hope he would be on the mound sometime next week,” according to Boone. 

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