Aaron Judge to Skip Batting Practice at Yankees' First Full-Squad Workout for Shoulder Maintenance
By Adam Weinrib
The Yankees' "death star" lineup has arrived in Tampa, but it's not fully operational just yet.
Aaron Judge will participate in workouts with the rest of his teammates on Tuesday, but will not take batting practice, in accordance with early-spring shoulder maintenance.
Surely, Yankees Twitter will take this well.
Expanding on initial tweet, Aaron Judge not on the BP list for today's first full squad workout because of maintenance for right shoulder more than anything else. He's expected to do everything else today. Nothing considered serious
— Erik Boland (@eboland11) February 18, 2020
At first blush, this feels like a redux of last year's injury-plagued disaster, but it's important to remember that no day on the baseball calendar is more meaningless than Day 1 of Spring Training. The worrisome flip side, of course, is that...if he really needs a maintenance day before camp has even started, what are things going to look like in a month?
Judge is also participating in all other drills on Tuesday, however, so fans will have plenty of opportunities to glimpse him in action alongside his teammates.
#AllRise for the arrival of @TheJudge44. pic.twitter.com/I3bGhta9V8
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) February 17, 2020
How long will this linger? Who knows. But the bottom line is the Yankees' full-unit debut at the dish will have to wait a little while longer to be unveiled.