 right now out to the stadium. Meredith Maracovic standing by the clubhouse report presented by your local forward stores and Meredith with regard to the injury to Aaron Hicks. Yankees and Hicks have been in kind of a holding pattern waiting to figure things out. Well they have so what are they doing? There is clarity Bob and it's not great Aaron Boone announced today that Aaron Hicks will in fact have surgery to repair a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist according to Boone. Hicks will fly to Arizona tomorrow although no surgery date has been set it is expected that it'll happen in Arizona. Now when I asked Aaron Boone exactly what the recovery process will be and how long it'll take Hicks to get back he said it'll be months plural. Then he went on to say that he didn't want to speculate as to whether or not Hicks would miss the entire season but there certainly is a void there in center field. With no Hicks it'll be Brett Gardner getting the knot again tonight. He's going to see the majority of the reps there but Aaron Boone did mention that Tyler Wade is an option if need be. Now Esteban Florial is on the 40 man roster but he's had just five games at triple A under his belt. The Yankees have already said they'd like him to get more seasoning in the minors and Aaron Boone was asked how they weigh getting him more at bats in the minors and filling a need up here at the big league level. That's a balance you've got to strike right. You know you never want to bring anyone up here that you don't feel like is at least somewhat ready to you know take on that challenge especially when you know you're talking about a player with with flow's potential you know and and some of the you know lost seasons he's had the last couple years due to you know obviously COVID last year and the shortened season and no minor league season to some injuries that he's dealt with that have you know cut short some of his seasons so it's important that he's playing but you know sometimes you have a need that you know that that can somewhat trump that so you know he's certainly in play and and comfortable with we're very comfortable with him as far as from a coaching staff standpoint we've been with him a lot we know him well so you know we'll cross that bridge if we have to at some point but it's a balance that you have to strike and and those are conversations you always have but nothing is imminent there anyway. Clint Frazier who's missed the last two games with some neck issues came in and told Aaron Boone today that he is good to go now Clint Frazier still isn't in the starting lineup he did go through a full BP though and Aaron Boone said he was scheduled to see the team doctor before the game and that would be dependent on what he says whether or not he's available off the bench but it seemed as though Clint was moving around fine throughout the entire BP process also know where the Zach Britton played catch today he's expected to do the same tomorrow and then we'll likely throw a bullpen on Sunday if that goes well then he'll start his rehab assignment and John Carlos Stanton was back out on the field today doing some work he could be ready as soon as next series now speaking of members of the bull pen I spoke to Mike Harky earlier today the Yankees bullpen coach who talked a little bit about Aroldis Chapman's dominance to start the season. The biggest thing for him and the biggest thing that I've seen is him being able to repeat his delivery I think these are things that when you see a guy that thrills as hard as he does they have a tendency to lose it mechanically but he's been able to keep that that consistent delivery the whole season or the short part of it we've had and that's probably for me has been the biggest biggest key to it now Chad in the zoom room earlier today and he said he was glad that the starters had a chance to really witness your personality up close and personal what goes on in that bullpen what type of personality are you showing hark well I definitely keep it loose you know I think I think that lends to putting a lot of pictures at ease especially when they're pitching in such big situations and it helps them go out there with a calmness and I think the last thing that I want to do is uh is kind of get the pictures going to a place where I you know they're out there and they're tight and they don't feel like they can make the best pictures that they can make you're looking forward to getting back out in the pen tonight oh yeah I got a lot of guys I got to go out there and uh and get back on because I think they've kind of lost a little bit of their edge so I'm gonna get back out there and get them back going again and as you heard Mike Harky will be back out in the bullpen tonight he had been filling in for pitching coach Matt Blake who was on the COVID list but good news on the COVID front both Matt Blake and Reggie Willits are back with the team so you'll see them on the field tonight