Jared Jones (elbow) recorded four strikeouts over four shutout innings on Tuesday in a minor league rehab start for Double-A Altoona.
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Jared Jones completed his third rehab start for Double-A Altoona, striking out four over four shutout innings while recovering from elbow surgery, with expectations to return to Pittsburgh's rotation by late May or early June.
Jones threw 36 of 52 pitches for strikes and scattered three baserunners over four highly impressive frames in his third rehab start. There isn't publicly available Statcast data from this latest outing, but he's been consistently sitting in the upper-90's with his fastball since returning from last year's elbow procedure. The hard-throwing 24-year-old figures to be ready to return to Pittsburgh's rotation by the end of May or early June. He should be rostered in all fantasy formats based on his immense strikeout potential alone.