 with a look at DJ LeMayhew who will enter his fifth season with the Yankees in 2023. He was terrific in the first two finishing top four in American League MVP voting both times but his offense has dropped off in some crucial areas over the last couple of years although he did win his fourth career gold glove this past season. So as you know what's going on with DJ LeMayhew, a toe injury, a broken bone in his right toe that also has a carryover effect to his second toe and that's a ligament issue and Flash they're still trying to figure this out and does he get surgery does he not and how does it impact him? Well it's got to be incredibly frustrating for DJ LeMayhew because you know when you have an injury at the end of the year there's always that evaluation how can we get this better do we do surgery you rehab during the winter you're good to go in spring training everything we're hearing everything that we're reading it's still up in the air whether this is going to heal on its own maybe he's going to have surgery if he has surgery then it might be another 12 weeks after that so think about the fact Jack that he's trying to get ready for another big league season but he can't be training the way that he's always trained to be ready for the first day of spring training I think he's got to be frustrated in the Yankees probably not sure what they have right now. Right if you're looking ahead to 2023 and you're Brian Cashman and you want to know what your roster is going to be to me right now LeMayhew is a question mark and we don't know when that question mark will be erased as you said we're waiting to see if he might have surgery if he does have the surgery there's a recuperation period both the New York Post on the athletic did articles in which they quoted orthopedic surgeons they're not working on LeMayhew but they're familiar with the fracture that he has and they talked about trying to stabilize his foot and how this is just a very tricky injury that he has how Steinbrenner has spoken about it as well so I think with LeMayhew it's just waiting it's a waiting period to see if perhaps he can overcome this without surgery and if he does can you come back and be the hitter that he previously was.