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The New York Yankees<\/a> were dealt some tough news earlier this week when Aaron Judge was placed on the IL<\/a> with a fractured rib. There was some relief, as the injury was feared to be more serious \u2026 but he will still be out of action for up to two months.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Yankees are currently neck-and-neck with the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> atop the AL East, with a healthy lead over the Baltimore Orioles<\/a>, Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> and Boston Red Sox<\/a>. But Judge, who is tied for fifth in MLB<\/a> with 17 home runs, will be missed. So\u2026<\/p>\n Thanks for voting. Be sure to make your voice heard and sound off in the comments section.<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 7, 2026, where it first appeared in the MLB<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Editor\u2019s note: Welcome to Athlon Sports\u2019 poll of the day, where we ask readers to weigh in on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4260,371,374,299551,363,369,99,974,364],"class_list":["post-690064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-fractured-rib","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}