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- Updated: August 11, 2016
BOSTON — Less than 24 hours after making his return to the Yankees’ starting rotation, right-hander Luis Severino was packing his bags for a return to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, asked to regain confidence in his changeup, a pitch both the pitcher and the club feel has been lacking.
“I’m not throwing it because I don’t have the same confidence I had two years ago,” Severino said on Wednesday. “I’m trying to find out. But I’ve got to figure it out and come back.”
“I think to get through lineups a third time, which you want all of your pitchers to be able to do, as a kid with stuff like that, you need to have a third pitch,” manager Joe Girardi said. “If you don’t have your slider that day, you have to have something else that you can go to. And if you don’t locate your fastball one day, you have to have something else that you can go to.”
Right-handed reliever Blake Parker, …
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