Aaron Judge surprised many fans over the weekend when he revealed that the extent of his toe injury was a “tear” when it was previously categorized as a “sprain.”
But Yankees maanger Aaron Boone believes that is just a matter of semantics more than anything else.
“It’s a grade of a strain, which is a tear,” Boone told the “Talkin’ Yanks” podcast on Tuesday. “We can get into the semantics of all of it.”
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The Yankees captian and reigning AL MVP has not played since June 2 when he crashed through a gate at Dodger Stadium making a catch and caught his feet on the concrete underneath the wall.
Neither Judge nor the Yankees have put a timetable on his potential return. Judge said on Saturday he still feels pain in his toe when walking but hopes to do some light baseball activities soon.
Boone was adamant that the refusal to put a timestamp on Judge’s return had nothing to do with protecting the player or hiding an injury other than the fact that sometimes injuries are just simply not cut-and-dry.
“There’s just sometimes, with medical things, sometimes there’s gray areas to it,” Boone said. “Sometimes it’s cut-and-dry. ‘He’s got a grade 2 hamstring.’ …it’s cut and dry and you have a really good idea of what that takes to heal and timelines. … When there’s some grayness there, I don’t like to throw out some broad guess.”
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