Notes
Harvey faces checkup on elbow today
Oft-injured prospect left start with Aberdeen after 11/3 innings Sat.
Harvey, who was pitching in Aberdeen in an effort to build up innings following sports hernia surgery in May, left Saturday's game after just 11/3?innings and 23 pitches against Batavia.
Harvey, 21, was the Orioles' first-round draft pick (22nd overall) in 2013. He was working up his inning count, first pitching in the Gulf Coast League before making his third start with the IronBirds on Saturday. In his previous start with Aberdeen, Harvey threw a season-high 69 pitches and allowed nine baserunners and three runs — two earned — over a season-high 31/3 innings.
It's the latest setback in Harvey's injury-plagued career. He was shut down one month early in 2014, his first full minor league season, with forearm soreness and he missed the entire 2015 season, first with a hairline fracture in his shin after taking a comebacker in a minor league spring training game and then with more arm soreness.
He received a platelet-rich plasma injection to help his recovery, but didn't pitch for the rest of the season.
Manager
“I was just looking at” the report, Showalter said. “He had good stuff, good velocity. I'm just hoping it was a precautionary thing. I'm not sure. … [Player development director]
There's still no guarantee that Kim, who strained his hamstring July 10 while running to first base in his first at-bat, will play in the Orioles' forthcoming four-game series against the Yankees, but he's close enough that the team would rather keep him on the travel squad than leave him in Florida to rehabilitate at the spring training facility in Sarasota.
“He's closer. He could do a lot of things today he couldn't do, wasn't as good at on Thursday, so that was encouraging,” Showalter said.
Kim, who was listed among the team's available reserves for Sunday's series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays, performed a variety of running drills before Sunday's game and Showalter said he did well, only feeling any tinge of discomfort during the final set of drills.
Kim said Saturday he believed he felt good enough to play. If he doesn't play by Wednesday — the last of 10 days a team can backdate a disabled-list stint — he would likely be placed on the DL. In that case, Kim would be eligible to return July 26.
Worley hadn't made a start since April 15. Since then, he's been a valuable weapon in long relief. He has a 2.34 ERA in 342/3 relief innings and a 5.06 ERA in two starts this season.