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Yanks' Clarke Schmidt eyes tentative mid-2026 return after elbow surgery

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NEW YORK -- Sporting a metal brace on his right arm a little over two weeks after undergoing an internal brace procedure on the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt said he is aiming to return after next season's All-Star break.

"It wasn't a full reconstruction," Schmidt said before New York opened a four-game series against Tampa Bay on Monday. "They didn't have to go in and put a new ligament in. Basically, what happened was the ligament was kind of tearing off the bone, so they just reattached it to the bone and they didn't have go to add any ligament.