BOSTON -- The Yankees have no plans to promote their top pitching prospect in the wake of Michael Pineda's season-ending injury, manager Joe Girardi said.



Though righty Chance Adams has pitched well at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, he's just not ready to jump into the spot vacated by Pineda, who needs Tommy John surgery.



"Comes down to command, using all his pitches, using his third pitch, that sort of thing," Girardi said before Friday's game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park on Friday. "Again, I don't get to see him on an everyday basis. Some of it is saying what you hear from our people. But he's still got some work to do."

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Girardi said the team discussed bringing up Adams, a 22-year-old who's 6-3 with a 2.50 ERA in 11 starts. He also went 4-0 with a 1.03 ERA at Double-A Trenton.



And Girardi wouldn't rule out bringing up Adams at some point this season.



"We talked," the manager said. "We still kind of feel he has more work to do. Could he be an option later on? Absolutely. But there's a lot of times guys get called up and you were expecting them to get called up at that point of the season and they're kind of thrown into the fire.



"I think you could say that about Dustin Fowler, Clint Frazier, Tyler Wade -- all these guys who were kind of called up and we weren't necessarily expecting it. So it could happen but it's not something he's going to make a start (at a certain date)."



Recently, Girardi mentioned the possibility of a workload limit on Adams, a converted college reliever drafted in the fifth round in 2015.



Adams has thrown 92 2/3 innings this year. Last year, he threw a career high 127 1/3 innings. It's unclear where the Yankees may cap Adams, but a good guess would be between 150 and 170 innings.



For now, the Yankees will go with Bryan Mitchel and Luis Cessa in the rotation for Pineda, who learned about his injury Saturday. He's set to be a free agent at season's end.

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