NEW YORK (AP) – Two days after the New York Yankees mentioned Aaron Judge probably may begin baseball actions this weekend, the slugger mentioned he has a torn ligament in his proper huge toe and isn’t fairly prepared.
Judge was harm June 3 when he crashed into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium whereas making a catch on J.D. Martinez. The harm, uncommon for a baseball participant, makes it onerous for Judge to foretell his progress.
“I don’t think too many people have torn a ligament in their toe,” Judge mentioned earlier than Saturday’s sport towards Texas. “If it was a quad we’d have a better answer. If it’s an oblique or hamstring we got timelines for that. With how unique this injury is and it being my back foot which I push off of and run off of, it’s a tough spot.”
Judge did rehab work in a pool on Wednesday and hoped to progress to throwing and lightweight hitting. Manager Aaron Boone had mentioned the slugger may start these actions by the tip of the weekend.
“It’s something I mentioned to the training staff: I want to test it out a little bit,” Judge mentioned. “Maybe play catch, possibly take some dry swings. I simply type of see the place it’s at.
“I really wouldn’t say it’s me running on the field and or doing a lot of baseball activity. It’s more me being passive saying, `We’ve done a lot of stuff in here. We’re making some great progress. Let’s test with what I’m going to be actually doing on the field.’”
Judge set an American League report with 62 house runs final yr. He is hitting .291 with 19 homers and 40 RBIs within the first season of a $360 million, nine-year contract he agreed to in the course of the offseason.
New York entered 10-16 this season with Judge on the injured listing and 6-10 for the reason that AL MVP was injured. New York was 31-19 with Judge, who additionally missed 10 video games earlier this season with a proper hip pressure.
“He’s out right now,” Boone mentioned. “So just trying to, obviously, get him well and back as soon as possible, but whether we had a defined day where he’d be back in, the reality is we’re without him right now and we got to find a way to get it done.”
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