Ryu, Green rehab visits provide a glimpse at what might be for Blue Jays

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Rehabbing from Tommy John surgical procedure is tedious and sometimes lonely so when the Toronto Blue Jays arrived in Tampa Bay this week, Hyun Jin Ryu and Chad Green seized the chance to flee the monotony.

Largely relegated to the backfields of the Player Development Complex because the finish of spring coaching in close by Dunedin, Fla., the veteran starter and reliever rejoined their teammates at Tropicana Field, the place they not solely discovered some connection but additionally an viewers for his or her newest bullpens.

Surrounded by practically all the Blue Jays employees, Ryu and Green every threw the equal of two innings Tuesday, remaining “right on target” of their recoveries, in response to supervisor John Schneider. The hoots and hollers of encouragement as they received their work in offered a elevate for 2 pitchers who’ve an opportunity to be important trade-deadline-like provides if their rehabs land proper.

“It’s the first time seeing them after spring training and I felt really good to see them. In a sense I felt like it helped me rejuvenate where I am right now,” Ryu stated by means of interpreter J.S. Park. “I think it’s the most fun I’ve had within the last month and a half, two months that I threw. I was able to actually concentrate more because of that.”

Said Green: “The fact that they came out shows that they care, shows they’ve kind of been keeping tabs on me. … It’s nice to have some spectators, for sure.”

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An precise timeline for the duo is tough to map out, however a 12-month restoration from the surgical procedure is taken into account best-case state of affairs, with one thing within the 14-month vary extra typical. Green had his surgical procedure final June 1 and as a reliever, doesn’t want fairly the identical build-up as Ryu, who went beneath the knife June 17.

Both are progressing in direction of going through hitters, which may come quickly, though work stays — Ryu nonetheless attempting to get his pitch rely up and his cutter going, Green nonetheless discovering the belief to actually let his slider rip.

There are at all times stops and begins alongside the best way and whereas Ryu says his preliminary goal of a return proper after the all-star break stays “my goal right now and I have my schedule set up accordingly,” Green strikes a bit extra of a cautious word.

“There’s such a long process and so much can happen from now until then,” he defined. “It’s just trying to hit certain progressions and then once you check one box, you move on to the next. To say, hey, I want to be back by this certain date, and you don’t end up meeting that date, you just don’t win. There’s just no reason to put a circle on that.”

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Without doubt, though by early July the Blue Jays will definitely have to have a firmer sense of what might be moderately anticipated from each to issue that into their commerce deadline planning.

A wholesome Ryu, at minimal, would provide safety for harm or underperformance within the rotation as in the meanwhile, with Mitch White nonetheless combating by means of shoulder fatigue, Zach Thompson getting whacked at triple-A Buffalo and Ricky Tiedemann recovering from biceps irritation, there’s no breathe-easy depth possibility.

The 36-year-old lefty may additionally open up the potential for creativity by way of managing starters’ workload, be it with occasional spot begins and even some temporary run in a six-man rotation, one thing the Blue Jays did with deadline add Francisco Liriano in 2016.

A return to kind for Green, in the meantime, would give the Blue Jays the kind of elite leverage reliever that’s each laborious to seek out and costly to accumulate on the deadline. Immediately throwing the 32-year-old into an eighth-inning function is unfair, but it surely’s not inconceivable that by September he’s getting necessary outs, lightening the load on Erik Swanson and Yimi Garcia forward of nearer Jordan Romano.

As such, Ryu and Green can be two intriguing wild playing cards within the coming weeks because the areas of want and alternative on the roster actually start to harden. And with the farm system thinned out in recent times by a slew of different future-for-present trades, their emergence would actually assist the membership’s bigger-picture asset administration, as effectively.

More runway is required for all that to play out and in the interim, their time on the Trop is merely a respite from the grind of the rehab, not an emblem of the tip of it.

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Ryu, a pending free agent at season’s finish, stated what he misses most is solely being again up on the mound and staying on schedule along with his restoration timeline is “what’s motivating me to rehab.”

Green, who signed a cleverly artistic contract this low season that may be prolonged three other ways this low season, is keen to ascertain a spot along with his new staff, having barely had the chance to take action so far.

“Being the new guy in the clubhouse, you don’t get much of a chance with so many people in the spring to really get to know guys,” he stated. “It’s nice to be in this atmosphere, to be in this setting because the rehab process can kind of be lonesome at times – it’s kind of just me and Ryu down here. So it’s nice to talk in the outfield during BP, sitting down to have a bite to eat. It’s been good.”

Even higher for the Blue Jays if their go to this week is merely a preview of issues to come back.

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