Luis Severino was feeling really good Monday after throwing for the first time after being shut down with a lat strain, that was until he was told by the Yankees trainers he was going on the 60-day injured list. Then he was “not happy.”

“I was not happy. I was not expecting that,” Severino said before Tuesday night’s game against the Mariners at the Stadium. “But that’s the plan that they have. So for me to come back healthy I’ll have to just follow that plan. Work hard to come back sooner.”

Severino, who said he feels good and ready to go, won’t be eligible to come off the IL until mid-September. The move was made suddenly Monday night after the Yankee acquired Scott Effross, Frankie Montas and Lou Trivino and needed roster space.

“Obviously I think it’s a little bit of a roster situation,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “It’s probably going to be a situation where it’s close. We want to get Sevy back as a starter and, and built up to that point. So there’s probably going to be whatever it is a week overlap (from when he’d have been back off the regular IL). The bottom line is we want to get Sevy back in the rotation. This timeline allows for still  probably four or five, six starts at the back end of the season, and hopefully hitting the ground because he’s built up to a point from that from start one to where he’s, you know, pitching full bore for us because we think he’s going to be an integral part in any kind of playoff run that we hope to go on.” The Yankees were already monitoring Severino’s innings this season because of his severe history of injuries over the past three seasons. They had thought they could get between 120-130 innings out of Severino and at the pace he was on, he would have blown through it.

Still, the Yankees didn’t tell him that. Severino was told by the team trainer and did not speak to Boone until Tuesday afternoon.

“He knows,” Severino said when asked if he told Boone he was unhappy with the decision and how it was handled. Boone agreed it was not ideal.

“I think it was abrupt and quick and just with the chaos that’s going on with the deadline and all that’s going through it was one of those immediate decisions that came down kind of quick,” Boone said.

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