Aaron Judge injury projections that emerge from Yankees camp will only grow rosier until the big man returns to an MRI machine. That’s the name of the game.
His future was treated very optimistically the last time his 2020 injury issues were addressed by management. That being said, we can’t allow ourselves to get lost in the platitudes. While we’re all hoping for Judge’s safe return in time for a proposed July Opening Day, there’s plenty we don’t know about the pain he’s suffering from.
According to reports that emerged this spring, Judge sustained a rib fracture and lung issue last September that would’ve theoretically precluded him from flying safely — something he did anyway, of course, throughout the postseason.