NEW YORK – The A’s may have two more pitchers heading to the disabled list with the club having scratched Kendall Graveman from this weekend’s series against the Yankees.

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Oakland A’s happy to be (almost) through with treacherous road trip Manager Bob Melvin said both Graveman, who has a recurrence of shoulder problems, and Jesse Hahn, who came out of his last start with triceps and elbow discomfort, have “a good chance” of going on the DL once the team’s medical crew is finished doing all its tests.

Manager Bob Melvin said that assuming Graveman does on on the disabled list, “it will likely be longer” than the 10 days Graveman spent on the DL in April with similar shoulder issues.

Graveman’s start Friday night was handed to Sean Manaea and Jharel Cotton will be called up from Nashville for Saturday’s start. Cotton, who threw seven scoreless innings in his last start for the Sounds, has already joined the team, but no official move will be made until Saturday morning.

Graveman and Hahn apparently spent time at the Coliseum Thursday working with trainer Brian Schulman and the other A’s injured players.

Oakland has made use of the disabled list 14 times already, more than halfway to the Oakland record of 27 set last year.

Earlier this week, reliever Bobby Wahl became the 14th use of the DL by the A’s this season. That’s halfway to the Oakland club record of 27 set last year, and 45 games into the season Oakland is on pace for 46 DL uses for the season.

The A’s have already had five starting pitchers on the disabled list in the first seven weeks of the season. Chris Bassitt is recovering from Tommy John surgery, Graveman missed 10 days with a right shoulder strain, Sonny Gray missed April with a right shoulder strain, Manaea missed 16 days with a left shoulder strain and Daniel Mengden went on the DL to start the season after needing right foot surgery.

The A’s pitchers at Triple-A have been on a roll, should the A’s need to call on them. In addition to seeing Cotton throwing seven scoreless innings in his last start, the Sounds have gotten eight scoreless innings in a Daniel Gossett start, seven scoreless from Daniel Mengden and seven more from Oakley’s Paul Blackburn.

That’s 29 innings from Nashville starters without allowing an earned run.

Cotton, who said “I can’t stop smiling; it’s good to be back,” said he’d worked on pitching on the inner part of the plate, that he’d struggled with it his first start but that it came together the last time out.

“I kept it simple,” he said. “I threw inside to both left-handers and right-handers. I’ve been talking to guys and I think it will help my changeup.”

Cotton said he’d never pitched in Yankee Stadium and said “I’d never been here before today.”