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Yankees Manager Aaron Boone’s daily pregame news briefing had already been overtaken by incremental updates of which injured players had progressed by taking swings, making throws or engaging in other nebulous baseball activities before Sunday morning’s news was delivered. Superstar right fielder Aaron Judge has been diagnosed with a “pretty significant” oblique strain, Boone said, which will require a couple weeks of rest and an uncertain timeline for return.
Judge is now the 13th Yankee on the club’s injured list, completing a formidable squad of inactive position players that includes six starters from its Opening Day lineup: outfielders Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, infielders Miguel Andujar, Greg Bird and Troy Tulowitzki and catcher Gary Sanchez.