The Yankees weren’t optimistic when first baseman Luke Voit was placed on the injured list with a sports hernia on July 31. After all, the slugger had been dealing with the effects of the painful injury since July 2 when he first hit the IL with what the club deemed an abdominal strain.
Misdiagnosis or misdirection by Yankee doctors, it wouldn’t be the first time a player has been quoted as having a particular ailment, only to have it soon after clarified. This has been an in-house problem for far too long and needs to be remedied.