Aaron Judge may still need to go on the IL next week, but he may not, and that is the angle New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone played up Saturday.
Speaking to reporters before the road game against the Texas Rangers, Boone said Judge is officially day-to-day.
“Aaron’s doing better,” Boone said (via The New York Post). “We’re going to wait to see, today and (Sunday), see how we’re doing to see if this is something we want to take a 10-day (IL) or if he is ready to play by Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, we’ll kind of keep that in play. But it’ll be something we pay attention to here. … He’s shown a lot of improvements here over the last two days.”
Judge left Thursday’s game against the Rangers after he felt something “grab” in his hip. An MRI Friday revealed “good news,” Boone said.
“I think the news we got — you always go in nervous of what you’re going to hear and what you’re going to find,” Boone said. “Yeah, I think in the grand scheme of things and the big picture, we do feel like we got good news on it. But that said, we want to make sure we’re doing right by him and by us.”
If Judge does end up on the IL, the Yankees can date his absence to Friday. The decision would likely be made Monday.
“The big thing will be obviously we don’t want to get into a situation where we hurt something further or put ourselves in jeopardy any further,” Boone said. “We’ll have to make that decision one way or the other. But right now, we don’t feel like we have to make that decision quite yet.”
