Mark Teixeira's Wrist Injury Reportedly Could Require Season-Ending Surgery
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The New York Yankees already knew they would be without star first baseman
Mark Teixeira for at least two months.
Now, the team has to face the possibility that the slugger could miss the
entire 2013 season with a wrist injury.
Per Matthews' report, team doctors told general manager Brian Cashman that
Teixeira shouldn't need surgery since the tendon was still stable. Were that
tendon not stable, Teixeira would automatically require surgery.
If Teixeira misses the entire upcoming season, the Yankees are in serious
trouble.
Already dealing with injuries to Curtis Granderson and Alex Rodriguez—and
playing in arguably the best division in baseball, the AL East—the Yankees
can ill-afford to be without a slugger like Teixeira in the middle of the
lineup.
While Teixeira's batting average has steadily declined—he has hit below .260
in three straight seasons—he remains a consistent source of power production
for the Yankees.
Last season broke his streak of hitting at least 30 home runs and 100 RBI in
eight straight seasons, though he still managed 24 home runs and 84 RBI in
123 games.
The Yankees are clearly an older squad with a closing window, at least with
this current core. If players like Teixeira and Rodriguez don't even play
this season, that window may have already closed.
Can an aging, banged-up Yankees team compete with the Boston Red Sox, the
upstart Baltimore Orioles, the revamped—and totally stacked—Toronto Blue
Jays squad and the always competitive Tampa Bay Rays?
That remains to be seen.
But if Teixeira cannot play this season, the odds of the Yankees finishing
atop the AL East just dwindled significantly.
簡單說
手腕的傷勢可能讓鐵爺整季無法出賽
中心打線持續傷痛的NYY 能在美東存活嗎!?