The Yankees will be without Aaron Judge for some time.
After days of imaging and re-imaging, the Yankees announced Thursday night that the two-time AL MVP has a stress fracture of the first rib on his right side.
“He will be reimaged in approximately four to six weeks to determine the level of healing and appropriate next steps,” the team wrote in a statement. “
Judge is expected to return at some point this season.”
Judge was missing from the team’s series opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday when manager Aaron Boone revealed that Judge had been dealing with a bone bruise in his upper right rib and was feeling it through his right shoulder.
“He’s been, kind of the last couple of weeks, dealing with some shoulder soreness, just kind of nagging,” Boone said at the time. “And then over the weekend, the last couple of games in Sacramento, I think it became a little more than that, where I noticed on some swings and stuff.
