NEW YORK -- Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira is making the bid to come back from torn cartilage in his right knee without surgery because he has nothing to lose.
Teixeira said that a surgical option to repair the injury -- a full knee debridement, he called it -- would cost him the entire season. And if playing on it makes it worse -- a possibility -- he will need the procedure anyway.
"It's a four-to-six month recovery," he said Tuesday before the Yanks played the Angels at Yankee Stadium.
Instead the hope is that he can return in three weeks.