 breaking news out of Tampa where the Yankees and Aaron Boone have announced that Aaron Judge has a stress fracture in his rib. Yankees are going to try two weeks of rest, but surgery to remove the rib is not off the table. The stress fracture is in a judge's first right rib. Boone said he believes it dates to an outfield dive in September. So obviously he's going to miss the start of the season for sure and it could be a lot more than that if in fact they have to remove the rib. So after a dozen tests from what we're hearing, a dozen tests they find out that he has a stress fracture in his rib. I don't know how that translates into the pec but maybe the top rib is kind of in that general area but it dates back to September. You had all winter to look at this. I don't understand why it takes so long to find this. Now obviously if it's an everyday person right it doesn't matter because you're not going to look that deeply alright just eventually the pain is going to go away but for an athlete you want to find out the reason why would it take so many tests. I don't know and so there's no timetable but obviously he hasn't swung a bat so it's going to go at least you know the first week of the season I would think. Oh for sure. I mean he hasn't swung a bat so they're going to reevaluate in two weeks. Now we could look at the Rangers rookie goalie Shisterkin right and he's back within two weeks but we don't know if it's the same thing. This is something that's been bothering him since September. They're talking about possibly removing the rib. If they do that I cannot believe that's a quick turnaround. No you'd have to get open up right and then remove the rib. I would think that that would take some time. He'd be sore for a while. It's incredible that you know nobody's going to criticize the Yankees. I'm not saying that they did anything wrong here but it's just so odd that it would take so long to find out it specifically what's wrong. It was test after test after test and even now when we seem to have some resolution it's still unknown. How long he's going to be out whether they're going to have to remove the rib. He's only one of the most important players on the team. So I went down a rabbit hole and I googled how long does it take to come back from a stress fracture in the rib. And obviously it all depends on the person. The shape they're in obviously is in great shape. So I'll read this from Heart Healthy. While healing time for bruised ribs typically ranges anywhere between five to six weeks rib fractures might take longer to heal. The time one would take to recover would also vary depending on the overall health of the patient. It might range from six weeks to six months. However following certain self-care measures will surely help in speeding up the recovery process. Taking adequate rest is extremely important. The affected individual must refrain from performing any strenuous physical activity that might worsen his or her condition. Again that is not specific to. That's the everyday job. Yes. Everyday job. But let's cut it in half. Three weeks. All right. Then he can be back for the start of the season. Right. We're still well. No. Well yeah. The three weeks I guess he could be ready for opening. No. No. No. Well today's the 7th. Yeah. But but Don he's got he won't be able to swing a bat. That's part of it too. Yeah. So. So I mean he's going to at least need two or three weeks to swing in a bat. I would think. So I'm conservative and looking if everything goes well conservatively that he'd miss April. Conservatively. Now they remove a rib. That's a completely different story but you know if rest would would heal this done. He heard it in September. I'm sure he had rest throughout the winter. I'm sure he works out but didn't he feel it. This is so odd. And you can't say well blame it on this blame it on that every single player that's injured goes to the best doctors in the world. They might not be the Yankee doctors. They might be the Yankee doctors. They go to the best people the specialist in the field. And it didn't crop up until now. I'm definitely stirring and you know what. But if this was Pete Alonso on the meds typical meds have no idea what they're doing. How can you not know what's wrong. Right. So the Yankees get the benefit of the doubt. Why not. Right. They generally should although although Don over the last two years should we be giving them the medical benefit of the doubt. Do they really deserve it over the last two years. Things haven't exactly been. I mean we kind of give the benefit of the doubt with Severino. Like why why wasn't this diagnosed earlier. He could have had. Right at the end of the season. You go back to to share how long remember bone bruise. You know is there a fracture in the leg. Remember how long we waited to find out what's wrong with to share his leg. And then we eventually found out the worst case scenario. But I guess because you win and you're the Yankees you get up from it. But you do see that there have been some issues medically and then on top of it all the guys that get hurt in the first place. All right let's here's Aaron Boone talking about the injury. So we'll listen to the Yankee manager. And you'll see it also on yes and listen on the radio. We got judge update. So he has a stretch fracture of the first right rib. Obviously a lot of tests to get to tough diagnosis to find. So that's what we're dealing with. Does you know it's probably an injury that dates back to September when he when he dove we think. You know signs are that it shows signs of healing. So we're going to give it the next couple of weeks and then we'll retest to show how much healing is going on with that rib. We do the CT scan again. So that's the idea. How long. No. Because I think hopefully it will reassess in two weeks of where he's at. As far as you know if the bone's healing and then hopefully have an idea of what that looks like. No there is you could do surgery at some point to remove the red. So I wouldn't say that's off the table. But that's not. You wouldn't want to go do that right now. Especially if the bonus. You know why it took long to find that stretch fracture. What was it that was so hard? Well I mean you know he ended up going through you know 10 12 11 different tests. I mean my understanding is it's a hard thing to find because you're not going to find it at MRIs or different scans.