New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez will try to get through the baseball season without surgery on his ailing right hip, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said on Thursday.
Cashman’s comments to reporters followed earlier published reports in which Rodriguez’s brother, Joe Dunand, said that the slugger would have a procedure on Monday to remove a cyst from his hip and that recovery would take about 10 weeks.
Cashman, however, said that the cyst had been drained and that no surgery was currently scheduled to repair a torn labrum in the hip.
He said the Yankees hope to treat Rodriguez conservatively, since surgery would likely cost the player four months.
Cashman said Rodriguez would need surgery eventually and that having it before the end of the Major League Baseball season, which starts next month, was “not off the table.”
Cashman confirmed that Rodriguez won’t play in the World Baseball Classic and has been removed from the Dominican Republic’s roster.
The injury is the latest seback for Rodriguez, who admitted earlier this year that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said on Wednesday that the 33-year-old player had endured discomfort in his right hip since last season.
Rodriguez had been playing regularly this spring pre-season, receiving mixed reactions from fans in the wake of the steroid revelations.
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