It stirred an unease across the Bronx when Aaron Judge winced and gripped his right hand after catching Alejandro Kirk’s seventh-inning fly in the right-field corner. The cameras caught him as he clenched his right hand into a fist. “It’s not much. It’s just probably a throw that didn’t feel great,” said manager Aaron Boone after the game as he downplayed the captain’s possible injury.
If Judge has to have TJ it probably means his days in RF are over and when he comes back he’ll shift to 1B, just as Bryce Harper did in Philly
— Earl Simmons (@YankeesFanEarl) July 26, 2025
It straightaway contrasted with his Tuesday comments, Boone is now “obviously concerned.” He said it after it was confirmed that Judge will be missing Saturday’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies. It’s certainly a major worrying update for the Yankees’ roster that he is currently out with “elbow issues.”
It looks like the Yankees downplayed it big time when Judge felt the discomfort on Tuesday. Days later, they didn’t realize that the slugger was struggling. The two-time AL MVP’s right field future appears to be now in jeopardy. The thing is, if Judge has to have a Tommy John surgery, then it probably means his days in right field are over. Well, that certainly shouldn’t happen, but if it does, then he will shift to first base, as Bryce Harper did in the Phillies.
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