Aaron Judge's big toe doesn't need surgery. This is what passes for good news from Yankeeland these days.
No, Judge's toe doesn't need surgery.
Just like D.J. LeMahieu's foot didn't need surgery after last season. Just like Luis Severino didn't need to be pulled out of the rotation when his arm went in July of 2018. Just like Giancarlo Stanton didn't need to adjust his workout routine one iota, even after he started missing entire seasons. Just like Carlos Rodon didn't need to get into shape for this season. Just like Gleyber Torres doesn't need ADHD medication every time he's on a ballfield.
No, what Judge "needs," if it's left up to the experts in the front office, is to become one more semi-invalid Yankee on the playing field, giving you his all half one-quarter whatever, like so many others in recent years. Missing entire months, clearly declining year after year, even as Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman tell you there's nothing to see here, just look at the back of his baseball card.
Aaron Judge lost seven weeks thanks to The Toe That Wouldn't Heal, and has come back looking like the World's First $40-Million Singles-Hitting DH. He can't much run, and he can't really play the outfield, and nobody's going to feed him a big fat pitch in this lineup, so why he is put out there in a season that has already, obviously got away from the Yankees is a mystery.
Most likely, it is yet another Patented Brian Cashman Exercise in Denial, insisting that the hobbled wreck of a ballplayer you see before you—surrendering home run after home run, or unable to get to second base on a drive to the gap, or unable to connect on balls he used to lash all over the park—is really just fine, needs to round into shape, has it all before him.
Quite obviously, Aaron Judge needs toe surgery. OR—he at least needs a battery of opinions from the leading medical authorities on the subject, rather than from the Yanks' in-house surgical expert, who I think is Dr. Nick Riviera.
Instead, what we are going to get is yet another injury that carries into at least another year, or until it becomes chronic, and in trying to adjust Aaron Judge does further, major damage to himself.
Hey, it's HAL Cashman's $360 million. But if I were him, I'd spend a little of that on a good HMO.
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That means he will miss most of 2024 when he has surgery in March
Yep. But by March, 2025, we'll be told he's now walking on a treadmill.
This is an upset...Yanks didn't give up a run in first inning...
Yup. Took until the 2nd tonight. Time to carve another notch in the loss column. Go, Tankees!
Will there be consequences when the Yankees fall under .500 this l8 in the season
I watched the last half inning. Judge looked absolutely disgusted heading to the clubhouse. He must be regretting not taking more money to play for another (more competitive) team.
It’s like every game is a damning indictment of the team’s philosophies, standards, and practices.
Back to back shutouts. 5 hits in 18 innings. At the hands of the Braves.
As always, my advice to the Commentariat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepFO4psgKE
Only 7.0 WCGB, but also only 7 games back in THE ALL IMPORTANT LOSS COLUMN.
Where will we be, what will we do without The Wisdoms of The Master? I do not look forward to that day.
Keefe To The City will be spitting hot fire tomorrow.
THE TEAM OF THE CENTURY!
THE 24TH WILL BE THE GAME OF THE CENTURY!
I'M READY. BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY!!!
REMEMBER ALL-CAPS?
Oh ya can't wait
Don’t make me turn this car around and start talking about toe injuries and orthotics again, Hoss!
‘he he he’
Surgery won’t really help Judge (or his toe) and would likely make it worse.
This will be a nagging, career changing injury.
Shame - but both he (and his Toe) will be better off next year - especially when he waives his No trade clause and goes to the Rockies
I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
e.g., *every* Boone post game interview.
Hey Roofiz, how was you stay away time?
Where you on a cruise to Freedonia?
I hope you're right, AA. But judging (no pun intended!) by the Yanks' injury history in recent years, i trust their judgement about as far as I could throw...well, Aaron Judge.
See what I did there?
Warbler, as you're a doctor, I do trust you. Especially about drinking.
Bitty, I DO remember—and miss—ALL CAPS. We were not on the same page politically, but I valued his baseball- and Yankee wisdom. (Yanksdom?)
But he'd be disgusted by this team.
And Rufus, Bitty, Joe: I think we need a banner for the 24th. A banner long enough to stretch across all of us.
It should read:
THE YANKEES STINK AND SO DO WE!
I'm sure that would go viral.
From this AMs NY Post
"They will change developmental culture back to old Yankees days. Keep in mind, I played in the Yanks’ org before analytics (2016-2018) and then after (2018-2020). Stark difference in developments.”
Braun said he asked Ruta for an example and he pointed to spring training in 2020, prior to the COVID shutdowns.
“Here’s all you need to know,” Ruta said. “In 2020, before COVID hit spring training we played a game called ‘pitchers vs hitters,’ the only way to score a point was to walk or hit a ball 95 mph-plus. There’s no baseball being taught there anymore. No baserunning, moving runners, fundamentals, etc.”
Hoss,
Given our nosebleed seats, I'd suggest:
THE YANKEES STINK. WE CAN SMELL IT FROM HERE.
Yep, Hoss, I don't trust anything to do with medicals coming out of the Yankees propaganda bulletin. You nailed it: chances are that Judge will not get surgery this year & then, at some point next year, they'll suddenly announce that Judge needs surgery to correct the toe problem and that he won't play again in 2024.
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