The beaten-up Yankees got some good news about their outfield on Tuesday when Harrison Bader returned to the lineup and Aaron Judge insisted he isn’t far behind — with a return early next week when they get back to The Bronx possible.

Judge said he wasn’t pleased about being put on the IL.

“I’m still not happy about it,” Judge said after the Yankees beat Cleveland, 4-2. “It is what it is. I’ll be back here in a couple days.”

In a display of how mild Judge and the Yankees believe the strain is, Judge has continued to take batting practice and says he only feels the injury when he throws.

“Hitting feels great,” Judge said. “Throwing, I feel it a little bit.”

He remained disappointed that he wasn’t given a chance to avoid the IL and said he otherwise would have hoped to be back either for Wednesday’s series finale against the Guardians or Friday’s game at Tampa Bay.

“I asked for a couple days and got outweighed,’’ Judge said. “This whole area, the hip and oblique, you don’t want to mess with it.”

Bader knows about obliques, having suffered his oblique strain in March and just getting back Tuesday.

He made an impact with a diving catch to rob Josh Bell of a hit to end the top of the fifth and added a single.

The Yankees hope he will help ignite an offense and stabilize an outfield group that has been awful in the wake of injuries Judge, Bader and Giancarlo Stanton.

Bader and Aaron Boone insisted the team-wide struggles had nothing to do with the timing of Bader’s return, and he wasn’t rushed back due to the lineup-wide slump despite him going just 3-for-25 during his minor league rehab stint.

“He’s a difference-maker in the middle of the field,’’ Boone said. “He looked free and easy.”

Boone added they would take advantage of Thursday’s off day then have Bader likely play two of three games at Tampa Bay later in the week.

The Yankees acquired the center fielder from St. Louis at last year’s trade deadline in exchange for left-hander Jordan Montgomery.

At the time, Bader was dealing with plantar fasciitis and didn’t make his Yankees debut until September, but he became an unexpected force in the lineup during the postseason.

To make room for the 28-year-old Bader on the roster, Franchy Cordero was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Cordero, a bright spot early on this season, is 1-for-28 with 13 strikeouts in his past 11 games.

The rest of the outfield is mostly a mess. In addition to the injuries to Judge and Stanton, Aaron Hicks has been nearly unplayable, Oswaldo Cabrera has been a disappointment after showing promise after being called up last season, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who never played the outfield before this season, has struggled again offensively.

Willie Calhoun has also struggled, but hit the go-ahead homer Tuesday.