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Pedro Feliciano is hurt in more ways than one.

On the Yankees disabled list with a muscle problem behind his left (throwing) shoulder, Feliciano responded on Monday to the comments made on Saturday by his former pitching coach with the Mets, Dan Warthen.

“That was part of the reason we decided not to re-sign him,” Warthen said, “because we knew we had used him 270-something times in the last three years.”

That number was actually 266, which was a major-league high over that time and led to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman saying that Feliciano was “abused” while he was a member of the Mets.

““I feel hurt a little bit about that because they didn’t really let me go because I pitched a lot of games,” Feliciano said before Monday night’s game against the Twins. “I didn’t sign with them because they offered me one year. Me and my agent wanted a multi-year [contract], two or more years, and they just gave me one. That’s why I’m not a Met right now.”

The Yankees signed the 34-year-old lefty specialist to a two-year, $8 million deal this offseason, and he has been shut down since early last week. He plans to play catch on Wednesday, and Cashman said it will probably be another two weeks after that before he can return.

“That’s not right when [Warthen] said that’s why we let him go,” Feliciano said. “I read that and it hurts because I like Dan.

“He said I would blow up this year,” Feliciano continued. “They didn’t want to sign me because I would blow up. It hurts.”

And all of those games Feliciano pitched with the Mets?

“I want to pitch. I want to be on the mound, always,” he said. “I think at some points [the Mets] left me in there with no reason. But I want to pitch, I want to be in there.”

Feliciano specifically said he didn’t understand why the Mets sometimes left him in against righties after he had pitched to the lefty he was brought in to face.

But when it comes to the Subway Series this year, Feliciano will be raring to go.

“I will come back from this injury and I’ll be telling him that I feel there’s a lot of Feliciano to go,” he said. “I will show him in the Subway Series when I strike out Ike Davis and I jump on the mound.”

Feliciano then pointed his finger at a figurative Warthen.

“That’s for you,” he said.

– Reporting by Brian Costello

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