Gerrit Cole opens up about elbow injury rehab as he works back to Yankees rotation

Gerrit Cole, broadcaster?

Well, at the very least, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner and Yankees ace joined the YES Network broadcast during the second inning Tuesday night in Arizona — and importantly provided an update on his rehab.

Cole said rehab for his elbow injury (nerve inflammation and edema) is going “smoothly” and that he’s had a number of good days in a row during his first-ever stint on the injured list in his career.

“We’ve had a lot of good days in a row,” Cole said while wearing a headset from the first-base dugout. “Everything’s been going nicely, coming along pretty smoothly. So it’s encouraging for sure.”

David Cone asked Cole how he is building his arm back up without throwing a baseball.

“You build it from all the different vulnerable positions,” Cole said. “And you kinda build it up in each position specifically. As you’re at certain positions of your arm path and what not, you train that positions eccentrically and concentrically. And then you train them from a strength perspective, and then a dynamic perspective and then you kind of put it all together with single-arm [plyometrics] and then eventually throwing the baseball.”