After two stints on the Injured List, New York Yankees sophomore infielder Miguel Andujar will be done for the season after electing for season ending surgery.
The tale of injury woes for the New York Yankees took an extreme hit on Wednesday, as the team announced that Miguel Andujar will be done for the year after electing for season ending surgery.
The surgery will be done on his right shoulder to repair a tear in his labrum, and it is tentatively scheduled for this upcoming Monday.
Miguel Andújar has elected for right shoulder labrum repair surgery. It will be performed on Monday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital by Dr. Christopher Ahmad. He is not expected to return this season.
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 16, 2019
Andujar originally injured his shoulder in late March, and would be placed on the Injured List (IL) shortly after. He would miss the entire month of April while rehabbing his injury, and would return against the Minnesota Twins on May 4th.
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Once he returned from the IL, Andujar would play in 9 games and was abysmal at the plate, hitting for a .088 AVG. In his 34 plate appearances, he would only garner 3 hits and none of them were for extra bases.
On May 13, Andujar would land back on the IL with the tear in his shoulder being the issue once again. This makes sense given he was awful when he first returned from the IL in early May, and led to suspicions that he may not have been completely healed when he initially returned.
While the injury may be a blow to a Yankees team who was counting on Andujar to continue his ways like in 2018, surgery is the best option for the 3B.
He was obviously still suffering from the effects of the injury, and if the initial rehab assignment did not work, surgery is the next best option.
While the team will be without his services for 2019, he should be ready to go for the 2020 season after the surgery and going through rehab (barring any Jacob Ellsbury like setbacks).
His surgery is currently slated for Monday, May 27, at New York Presbyterian Hospital.