Aaron Judge's Injury Update: Yankees Face Challenges

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00:00As we saw yesterday, tweets coming out, Aaron Judge has a flexor strain and his UCL is intact,

00:05which is great news, Aaron Boone said. He's going to be on the injured list, but the Yankees

00:09avoid the worst, which it's coming at a bad time. The Yankees are losing out right now to the

00:14Toronto Blue Jays. The Yankees are fighting for the playoffs here. The MVP of the American League

00:19and probably not getting hurt this year would be the MVP once again. The Yankees season thrown

00:24into now a little bit of turmoil. So let's start here. The news coming down with Aaron Judge for

00:29you, Joe Ranieri. How did that hit? Yeah, it wasn't great. And as usual, you felt like you

00:35weren't getting the whole story, though, once we learned that he, you know, Saturday, he wasn't

00:39in the lineup and we were originally told, oh, it was a rest day. They were giving him like rest.

00:45I'm like, why is he resting now? Like, what are we? He just got the all-star break. Like what rest?

00:49So yeah, no. And then of course we learned later that, oh, there might be an arm issue. Listen,

00:55the good news is that the worst case scenario is not a reality here. So, which means you're going

01:01to have to, you know, you're going to have to make do without him for a little while. And even when he

01:06comes back, playing the field is likely not an option. That's fine. If you look at his Yankees

01:12lineup top to bottom here, and they showed it again yesterday, there is more than enough power and talent

01:18here to be able to hold the fork down with Aaron Judge for a couple of weeks. I mean, it's not the end of

01:23the world. It's the pitching that worries me more, Donnie, than Aaron Judge being on the IL.

01:29And then the question is, what are they going to do? They're not bringing up Seth Jones. They're not

01:32going to bring up this young guy who's bigger than Aaron, you know, than Judge. So, you know,

01:39it is what it is. Find some pitching at the break if you can do it and make a run and wait for him to

01:44come back. They got more than enough talent to be able to make a run and hold it down here.