{"id":73191,"date":"2025-08-03T00:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=73191"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:06:38","slug":"yankees-deliver-stunning-aaron-judge-announcement-draw-serious-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=73191","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Deliver Stunning Aaron Judge Announcement, Draw Serious Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Judge-Yankees-announcment.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Judge-Yankees-announcment.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Judge-Yankees-announcment.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Judge-Yankees-announcment.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Deliver Stunning Aaron Judge Announcement, Draw Serious Warning\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Judge may e back with the New York Yankees in just a few days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees got news that sounded like a disaster for their sputtering season on July 26, when they were forced to put two-time American League MVP Aaron Judge on the 10-day injured list with a right flexor strain. The injury is often considered a precursor to an ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) tear, which requires Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>While no time is a good time for a Judge injury, the Yankees would appear to need their superstar, who was in the midst of a historic offensive season at the time he was hurt, more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees blew a seven-game American League East lead, which they held as late as May 28, and sat 6 1\/2 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays on the day Judge was placed on the IL.<\/p>\n<h2>Injury Interrupts Historic Season for Judge<\/h2>\n<p>Judge is the main reason their situation wasn\u2019t even worse. With 37 home runs and an MLB-best 1.160 OPS, Judge also led the Majors in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, extra base hits, wins above replacement (WAR) and adjusted batting wins \u2014 among a few other categories.<\/p>\n<p>When he announced that Judge would spend time on the injured list, Yankees manager Aaron Boone also said that he believed the 33-year-old would need no more than the minimum 10 days before he could return.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, on Friday Boone told reporters that he expected Judge to be activated as early as Tuesday, the 11th day since going on the IL.<\/p>\n<p>Judge would not play the outfield immediately on his return, initially being limited to a designated hitter role, Boone said.<\/p>\n<h2>Big Risks to Judge\u2019s Early Return<\/h2>\n<p>But the Yankees\u2019 announcement could be a risky one.<\/p>\n<p>One alarm was sounded by former Yankees pitcher David Cone \u2014 a member of four World Series champion Yankees teams in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000 and now an analyst on Yankees TV broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to mess with that arm,\u201d Cone said during a broadcast this week. \u201cOne big throw could lead to something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees\u2019 plan to confine Judge to a DH role would appear to guard against any further injuries from throwing \u2014 injuries that could result in season-ending Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<h2>Hitting Also Dangerous With Flexor Strain<\/h2>\n<p>But sports injury expert Will Carroll, who appeared on the Foul Territory podcast to analyze Judge\u2019s injury, said that the situation may not be that simple. Hitting is also a risk with an injury such as the flexor strain suffered by Judge, Carroll claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is worse than the UCL tear,\u201d Carroll asserted on the podcast. \u201cWithout this, [Judge] cannot play. \u2026 This doesn\u2019t heal quickly. This small, little tendon, which overlaps with the UCL, often takes a month or even more to heal up. \u2026 For Judge, this is bad. For the Yankees, this is bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his Under the Knife newsletter, Carroll explained further why hitting could also endanger Judge\u2019s elbow health.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEven with a UCL sprain or rupture, Judge could play,\u201d Carroll wrote. \u201cWhere a UCL isn\u2019t involved in the swing, the flexor really is. A flexor strain changes everything for a power hitter like Judge. These are the muscles that let a hitter squeeze the bat, hold it steady, and then drive it through the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Boone keeps to his word and Judge is back in the lineup on Tuesday, the Yankees should know soon afterward whether or not activating their star was a risky miscalculation.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Yankees<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees announced new info on injured superstar Aaron Judge on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":73192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Deliver Stunning Aaron Judge Announcement, Draw Serious Warning - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=73191\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Deliver Stunning Aaron Judge Announcement, Draw Serious Warning - 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