Max Fried should be ready for Yankees spring training after undergoing bone spur surgery
LAS VEGAS — After a season plagued by elbow issues, Max Fried has gotten an offseason cleanup.The left-hander underwent surgery to remove a bone spur from his left elbow, Brian Cashman said Tuesday, though it should not affect his readiness for the 2027 season — whenever it actually begins, with a lockout looming.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.
The procedure — which was not originally on the docket when Cashman and Aaron Boone last spoke to reporters in late October — comes with six weeks of rest and rehab before Fried can begin a throwing program around the second week of December.“He should be ready for spring training,” Cashman said during the general managers meetings at the Aria Resort and Casino.In the second year of an eight-year, $218 million contract, Fried missed two-plus months with a left elbow bone bruise and then went back on the injured list for two weeks in August with the same issue.In the 20 starts he did make, he was mostly terrific, pitching to a 2.80 ERA across 112 ²/₃ innings.Aaron Judge recently had a follow-up appointment with Dr.
Gregory Pearl — the specialist with whom the Yankees consulted on their captain’s broken rib last season — which essentially cleared him moving forward.“He’s currently in a good place,” Cashman said.“So no new added features to his circumstance outside of, take the winter to continue to rest up and he’ll be ready to go.
But there’s no new procedures or anything there with Aaron Judge.”While pitching coach Matt Blake’s contract extension was previously reported, Cashman revealed that assistant pitching coach Desi Druschel and bullpen coach Preston Claiborne are also coming back, as are third base coach Luis Rojas and first base coach Dan Fiorito.Bench coach Brad Ausmus, meanwhile, is still waiting to hear back from the Astros after he interviewed for both their GM job (...