{"id":256742,"date":"2026-06-05T19:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256742\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:54:22","slug":"yankees-call-up-spencer-jones-in-attempt-to-fill-aaron-judge-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256742\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees call up Spencer Jones in attempt to fill Aaron Judge void"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees officially began their summer without Aaron Judge on Friday after placing the slugger on the IL on Thursday night with a stress fracture of the first rib on his right side.<\/p>\n

As Aaron Boone noted before the stress fracture announcement<\/a>, there\u2019s no making up for losing \u201cthe best hitter in the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not replacing Aaron Judge,\u2019\u2019 the manager said.<\/p>\n

And with the team\u2019s outfield depth already lacking due to Jasson Dom\u00ednguez being on the IL with a sprained left shoulder, the Yankees turned to Spencer Jones to take Judge\u2019s spot on the roster, a source told The Post, as they called the outfield prospect back up from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-7 Jones\u2019 first stint in the majors didn\u2019t go well, as he finished 4-for-24 with no extra-base hits, three walks and 12 strikeouts in 27 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Dom\u00ednguez is scheduled to begin a minor league rehab assignment Friday, but regardless of who the Yankees call upon, they will be left with a huge hole in their lineup until Judge returns \u2014 which almost certainly won\u2019t be for at least two months.<\/p>\n

\"SpencerYankees\u2019 Spencer Jones (78) during a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

The Yankees said Thursday that he will rest and then re-imaged in 4-6 weeks to determine how much the area has healed and determine the next steps.<\/p>\n

Judge, the team said, \u201cis expected to return at some point this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s captain played with shoulder soreness for weeks<\/a>, according to Boone, before the injury worsened last weekend in Sacramento against the A\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\"NewYankees\u2019 Aaron Judge (99) looks on in the seventh inning against the Cleveland Guardians. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

That led to Judge undergoing tests Monday before an additional MRI exam Wednesday, followed by a CT scan and X-ray on Thursday before the final diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Judge\u2019s production had dropped significantly in the three weeks leading up to his shutdown, but he still has 17 homers and a .907 OPS.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest in a growing list of ailments for Judge, who hit the IL last season with a flexor strain in his right elbow and missed 42 games with a torn ligament in his big right toe after running into a wall making a catch at Dodger Stadium in 2023.<\/p>\n

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He also suffered a similar rib injury to the one he\u2019s dealing with now in September 2019, but it wasn\u2019t diagnosed until the following spring before the season was delayed by COVID.<\/p>\n

The Yankees dropped two of three to Cleveland in The Bronx without Judge this past week and since 2017, the Yankees have gone 652-442<\/a> with him in the lineup compared to 137-127 when he\u2019s out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees officially began their summer without Aaron Judge on Friday after placing the slugger on the IL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10094,20,9,11,10,321,44865,319],"class_list":["post-256742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-judge","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-spencer-jones","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}