TRENTON -- Yankees VP of baseball operations Tim Naehring was in the stands Monday night at Arm & Hammer Park watching Brandon Drury have a pretty decent showing playing third base in a rehab game for the Trenton Thunder.
Earlier, the Brian Cashman right-hand man was on the field watching Drury take batting practice and then in manager Jay Bell's office, presumably for an update.
From the mouth of Yankees GM Brian Cashman in a WFAN radio interview Monday afternoon, Drury will be off the disabled list "sooner rather than later," and that's a little surprising even though his 1-for-3 showing against Reading with a bloop single, walk and two strikeouts a few hours later was a continuation of on-field success that he's had in 11 rehab games since April 25, the first eight with the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders and then three in three days with the Double-A Thunder.