Yankees captain Aaron Decide, his teammates and New York’s fan base exhaled Saturday when the two-time AL MVP realized he has a flexor pressure in his proper elbow however no acute injury to his ulnar collateral ligament that may trigger a long-term layoff.
Decide was despatched for an MRI on Saturday and missed simply his second recreation this season, a 9-4 loss to Philadelphia. He had a platelet-rich plasma injection and can go on the injured checklist however hopes to return to motion in 10 days to 2 weeks, initially as a chosen hitter.
“You never want to go in the tube. It’s never fun. You don’t know what’s going to show up,” Decide stated. “That’s why I kind of pushed off a lot of that imaging and stuff like that because if I don’t know what’s going on, it can’t hurt you, I guess.”
Decide leads the main leagues with a .342 batting common and 1.160 OPS. He has 37 dwelling runs and 85 RBIs for a New York crew that opened a seven-game AL East lead by late Could however dropped a season-high 6 1/2 video games again of first-place Toronto on Saturday.
Figuring out how powerful Decide is, Boone had been apprehensive. Decide advised Boone of throwing problem throughout Friday’s 12-5 loss to Philadelphia.
“I couldn’t throw past 60 feet,” Decide stated. “We’re going up against a Phillies team, they can hit the ball over the park. I just didn’t want to put our pitchers in jeopardy, just not be able to come up and make a play for them.”
Boone obtained outcomes of the scan simply earlier than the beginning of Saturday’s recreation, when crew officers had been getting some extra analysis. As a result of ache impacted his throwing however not hitting, Decide fought happening the IL.
“With that strain, then if you go out there and play with it you put the UCL in jeopardy, so we got to get that healed up,” Boone stated.
Boone stated it was too quickly to find out whether or not extremely regarded prospect Spencer Jones will probably be introduced up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Decide doubtless will not throw for 10 to 14 days, then will want just a few days throwing to construct again arm power earlier than returning to the outfield.
“I really was reluctant about going on any IL or anything like that,” Decide stated. “I was like, ‘If I can hit, let me hit.’” he stated. “I’ll start DHing, I think, once this 10th day is up.”
Giancarlo Stanton, the crew’s main DH, will begin to work out within the outfield subsequent week with a purpose to assist fill in for Decide.
“It’s never a relief knowing he’s going to be out at all, but for what it is, I guess you could say best case,” Stanton stated.
Decide stated he first felt the ache within the sixth inning of Tuesday’s recreation at Toronto, when George Springer singled to proper within the sixth inning off Jonathan Loáisiga. Decide made a powerful throw dwelling in an try to stop the tying run, however Davis Schneider simply beat catcher Austin Wells’ tag.
An inning later, Decide winced after catching Alejandro Kirk’s seventh-inning fly within the right-field nook and throwing to second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. as Bo Bichette tagged up and went from second to 3rd. Decide was caught by a YES Community digital camera clenching his proper hand in a fist.
“He’s about as tough as they come and for him to even show any vulnerability or pain or whatever,” Boone stated. “I knew we had an issue probably. And so any time you can fear the worst with that, but that’s why you wait to react, though. … We got the MRI and got a clear diagnosis with it.”
