NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge has willingly embraced his current role as the New York Yankees' big-bodied hype man and cheerleader on the bench.
But he's long past ready to retire from it.
When the right fielder was taken to a nearby hospital after taking a 94 mph fastball off the outside of his right wrist July 26, the belief was that he would have returned to the Yankees' every day lineup by now.
He hasn't.
"I've got a broken bone. It's still fractured. I've got to give it time to heal," Judge said Thursday.