Latest Yankees injury updates: DJ LeMahieu, Jameson Taillon, Aaron Hicks, Clint Frazier, more

Yankees infielder DJ LeMahieu had surgery to repair his sports hernia on Oct. 12.
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Two Yankees needed offseason surgery and another might play winter ball after missing most of the season.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman provided updates on DJ LeMahieu, Jameson Taillon, Clint Frazier, Aaron Hicks and others during a press conference from Yankee Stadium on Tuesday.

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Here’s the latest:

LeMahieu

Injury: Sports hernia

Latest: LeMahieu had surgery to repair his sports hernia on Oct. 12. Cashman said he’s expected to need eight weeks to recover and that he’s currently working out and rehabbing at Yankee Stadium. Cashman said he believed the sports hernia was affecting LeMahieu for much longer than the Yankees realized and that it could have been a key contributor to his downturn in production.

Taillon

Injury: Right ankle tendon tear

Latest: Taillon will have surgery to repair his ankle Oct. 28. “The expectations is that by five months he’ll be fully operational, back to where he would have been prior to the surgery,” Cashman said.

Frazier

Injury: Dizziness/fogginess/vision issues

Latest: “Clint Frazier is in constant contact with our medical staff on a weekly basis regarding the status of the dizziness and fogginess he’s experienced for far too long as our medical team and other medical teams have been obviously working through that with him,” Cashman said. “So, they’re staying in constant contact. He is back in Atlanta. He transferred from our Tampa complex toward late in the season to return home to Atlanta.”

Hicks

Injury: Season-ending surgery to repair a wrist tendon sheath

Latest: Hicks should be fully recovered by late November or early December and is contemplating playing winter ball.

Luke Voit

Injury: Left knee inflammation

Latest: Doctors determined Voit needed only rest — and no surgery — for his bum left knee.

Tim Locastro

Injury: Torn ACL

Latest: “He’ll be running soon and will hopefully be a player by the start of next season. Not necessarily spring training,” Cashman said.

Darren O’Day

Injury: Left hamstring strain

Latest: O’Day should be ready for Opening Day, if not for the beginning of spring training, Cashman said.

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