00:00Meanwhile, the New York Yankees did not get a great update on Aaron Judge.
00:03He will not resume baseball activities, so this means a longer period of time.
00:08This should come as no surprise, Tom.
00:10Look, a couple of months ago, they were throwing out a doctor
00:13who had specialized in thoracic outlet surgery.
00:17Now, I'm not going to speculate on that because I don't know what this injury is,
00:21but if Judge is not able to start baseball activities,
00:25we could be looking at weeks again.
00:26And I think, honestly, I think, Tom, the Yankees would be lucky to have him back this season
00:31and in the postseason.
00:32Obviously, something's drastically wrong here.
00:35Right.
00:35They cleared him of the thoracic outlet syndrome earlier in the year, right when he went on the IEL.
00:41To me, this seems like an intercostal muscle injury, and this is just my pure speculation.
00:46But, you know, a muscle between the ribs, it's not the actual rib itself.
00:50That just helps with, you know, implies with a place with the oblique
00:54and obviously with the turning, with the swing, and Judge has a very powerful swing,
00:58so he needs that to be at 100%.
00:59So it's just going to be another waiting period until we get the next update,
01:03when he can resume, when he can start running, throwing, hitting, and go from there.
01:07Yeah.
01:07And do you think, Tom, as it pertains to the Yankees, not having, you know, Judge there is one thing.
01:14But, you know, their postseason performer,
01:15even though he hasn't done much during the regular season the last few years, is Giancarlo Stanton.
01:19And if they don't have either of these guys, I can't imagine them rolling into the postseason
01:23with the team that they have.
01:24I think they would probably have to add something.
01:27They would have to add something.
01:28And ultimately, you're talking about, even if they do add something, could he get Judge back?
01:34Is he going to only DH?
01:35You know, you don't want him diving on the field and, you know, stretching out and hurting his rib more.
01:40How does the team, you know, composition look at that point?
01:43But ultimately, the team ceiling at that point is what?
01:45Win one postseason series and then you lose the next one.
01:49Like, that's ultimately what it comes down to.
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