Yankees Injuries: Didi Gregorius Expected To Return In June

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — There’s finally some good injury news in the Bronx.

Didi Gregorius is projected to return to the New York Yankees next month, a much faster recovery from Tommy John surgery than was expected last year.

Gregorius is scheduled to play shortstop on Monday at extended spring training in Tampa, Florida, his first game action since surgery on Oct. 17 to replace a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.

“It’s a good step. We’re getting there. Everything feels really good,” Gregorius said Saturday after eight plate appearances during a simulated game in Tampa. “You’ve got to trust the whole thing, even though I’m impatient because I want to work. But it is what it…