Luis Severino is ready to finally start his rehab assignment this week.

Then again, he felt ready last week, too, before the Yankees changed their mind on starting his rehab clock and had him throw another simulated game on Friday in Tampa instead.

“I think it was unnecessary not to throw in Low-A, but I do whatever they tell me to do,” Severino said Sunday morning at Tropicana Field. “But I feel good.”

Severino was in a good mood, smiling with some jokes at the ready while speaking with reporters about his recovery from the strained lat he sustained in the final week of spring training.

But it was clear he was frustrated with how the Yankees have slow-played his return.

A few days after the injury happened in late March, Severino said he hoped to only miss three or four starts, a timeline that the Yankees initially seemed to be in line with.