Yankees' Late Season Strategy: Judge's Return Timeline

You know 35 games left if I'm the Yankees I feel like I've weathered a very big storm so far this year. No Craig? Yeah well they mentioned for Judge for the first time like legitimate baseball activities so that's a really good sign for him and once he steps on a field the estimation as we talked about yesterday is it's one month uh you know when he's doing baseball activities. So if that is now that means as we said yesterday we could do it again today around the middle to late September so it's about a week or two of him playing before the postseason begins because when a player misses this much time Joe as we talked about yesterday he's got to go on a rehab assignment of which he plays one day and then doesn't play the next day and then plays the next day and then repeat for about a week and then the next week he comes back and then they wait for him to play back-to-back days and then he takes a day off and then they see how he feels like this is going to take two weeks minimum of like rehab assignment stuff and it'll start at the low level two for him he's been out a really long time I still think the timeline remains the same you'll see him I think somewhere toward the middle to end of September and it does feel Joe like he is coming back to play the Yankees are 15 games over 500 that's the good news they've banked a lot of wins they're in a really good position I don't think they'll catch Tampa Bay they are five games behind them they're gonna play them head-to-head there's still an opportunity there but I still think Tampa Bay ends up winning the division