Aaron Judge desperately tried to return for the postseason after straining his calf, but the New York Yankees captain was wisely left off the Wild Card series roster.
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Judge sustained a moderate soleus muscle strain in his calf and received a platelet-poor plasma (PPP) injection to try to speed up his rehab, but it wasn’t enough for him to make the roster for the team’s best-of-three series against the Boston Red Sox.
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Former college football quarterback-turned-foot-and-ankle surgeon Dr. Drew Burdi said if Judge came back too soon, he could leave himself exposed to further injury.
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"If you do go too fast, too soon, you could just make it a more severe injury.
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It's a soleus, so that could lead to overstraining (the) hamstring, up and down.
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You could put more strain on your Achilles, you could put more strain on your hamstrings, and that could lead to other injuries," Burdi told OutKick in a recent interview.
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Burdi explained that strains involve varying degrees of muscle tearing and that a premature return to play could cause Judge’s strain to go from moderate to severe.
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A more severe tear could lead to a much longer recovery time, regardless of the treatment used.
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"If you're not ready to go back in yet, you tear it more, you can get to a point where the advanced conservative therapies like PRP injections, shock wave therapy, these guys are getting oxygen chamber therapy.
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This stuff can only go so far.
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The body can only adapt so much, can only heal so quickly," Burdi said.
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The worst potential outcome of Judge returning too soon could be an Achilles rupture.
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Burdi said such an injury is a possibility.
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"Possibly, yeah, I mean, that's always a risk.
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Again, it, it kind of depends how he feels, but it's always a risk, and Achilles is always so scary because a lot of people, you see it in football, guys are jumping up on the sidelines and they come down weird and they rupture their Achilles.
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You're just like, wow, they don't even feel it before it happens," Burdi said.
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"That's tough because those are tough injuries to come back from.
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Guys do do it, but they're never quite the same."
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Burdi said that while Achilles injuries aren’t necessarily career killers, they are career changers.
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So while the Yankees may have a Judgian-sized hole in their Wild Card Series lineup, leaving Judge off the roster could be the safer long-term approach.
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Judge said he intended to try to play in Game 1, but the three-time American League MVP didn’t recover in time.
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While Judge might not have been hitting like himself in his seven games back from the rib injury that kept him out since June, going 4 for 23 with one home run and 13 strikeouts, his presence in the lineup was a boost.
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Even when the Yankees’ captain isn’t hitting, Judge’s presence in the lineup takes pressure off other hitters.
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In 66 games this season, Judge is hitting .241 with 18 home runs and 41 RBI.
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He hopes the Yankees can eliminate the rival Boston Red Sox in the Wild Card Series so he can rejoin the team in the ALDS.
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