When Yankees slugger Aaron Judge was hit by a 93 mile-per-hour fastball from Kansas City Royals’ Jakub Junis at the end of July, headlines about the fate of Judge and his team’s chances to win the AL East cluttered the news.
The Yankees tweeted that Judge had “a chip fracture of the right wrist” and wasn’t expected to have surgery. They estimated that he’d be swinging a bat “in a game situation” in three weeks.
Subscribers to Inside Injuries, a real-time resource for injury news and predictions, received a less optimistic analysis. After sending out alerts about Judge’s injury via push notifications and email blast, Inside Injuries warned that Judge’s recovery could be double the estimate, and that he possibly wouldn’t return to normal for “months and months” beyond that.