Judge sustained a moderate soleus muscle strain in his calf and received a platelet-poor plasma (PPP) injection to try to speed up his rehab, but it wasn’t enough for him to make the roster for the team’s best-of-three series against the Boston Red Sox.Former college football quarterback-turned-foot-and-ankle surgeon Dr.
Drew Burdi said if Judge came back too soon, he could leave himself exposed to further injury.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners.If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated.
This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom."If you do go too fast, too soon, you could just make it a more severe injury.It's a soleus, so that could lead to overstraining (the) hamstring, up and down.
So that's your calf muscle, or part of the calf muscle.You could put more strain on your Achilles, you could put more strain on your hamstrings, and that could lead to other injuries," Burdi told OutKick in a recent interview.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEAaron Judge of the New York Yankees looks on during a game against the Minnesota Twins on Sept.
16, 2026, at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minn.(Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images)Burdi explained that strains involve varying degrees of muscle tearing and that a premature return to play could cause Judge’s strain to go from moderate to severe.
A more severe tear could lead to a much longer recovery time, regardless of the treatment used."If you're not ready to go back in yet, you tear it more, you can get to a point where the advanced conservative therapies like PRP injections, shock wave therapy, these guys are getting oxygen chamber therapy.This stuff can only go so far.
The body can only adapt so much, can only heal so quickly," Burdi said.The worst potential outcome of Judge returning too soon could be an Achilles rupture.Burdi said such an injury is a possibility.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, U...