The New York Yankees seem to have averted disaster with Infantile Bambino.
Jon Heyman of the New York Publish reported Friday that the preliminary prognosis for Yankees star Juan Soto is that he’s solely coping with irritation in his left forearm and is predicted to be OK. Heyman notes that Soto had an MRI earlier within the day on Friday revealing the prognosis, however notes {that a} radiologist will nonetheless assessment Soto’s outcomes simply to make sure.
Former NL batting champion Soto needed to depart Thursday’s sport in opposition to the Minnesota Timberwolves because of the harm, inflicting widespread panic from Yankees followers. Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone subsequently advised reporters that Soto had been coping with the forearm situation for roughly the final week or so.
Together with teammate Aaron Choose, Soto is among the early front-runners for AL MVP this season. He’s having a monster first yr in pinstripes, batting .318 with a .424 OBP, each of which lead the AL. Soto has additionally turned in 17 residence runs and 53 RBI whereas showing in 63-of-64 video games to this point.
Whereas it seems like Soto might nonetheless miss a couple of days because of the irritation, that’s glorious total information for the Yankees. They do have massive issues in terms of Soto’s contract state of affairs, however the extra urgent matter proper now of his well being appears to be so as.
