00:00You know, 35 games left, if I'm the Yankees,
00:03I feel like I've weathered a very big storm so far this year.
00:07No, Craig?
00:08Yeah, well, they mentioned for Judge for the first time,
00:10like, legitimate baseball activities.
00:12So that's a really good sign for him.
00:14And once he steps on a field, the estimation,
00:18as we talked about yesterday, is it's one month, you know,
00:21when he's doing baseball activities.
00:23So if that is now, that means, as we said yesterday,
00:27we could do it again today, around the middle to late September.
00:31So it's about a week or two of him playing before the postseason begins.
00:35Because when a player misses this much time, Joe,
00:40as we talked about yesterday, he's got to go on a rehab assignment,
00:44of which he plays one day and then doesn't play the next day,
00:48and then plays the next day, and then repeat for about a week.
00:52And then the next week, he comes back,
00:53and then they wait for him to play back-to-back days.
00:56And then he takes a day off, and then they see how he feels.
00:59Like, this is going to take two weeks minimum of, like, rehab assignment stuff.
01:03And it'll start at the low level, too, for him.
01:05He's been out a really long time.
01:07I still think the timeline remains the same.
01:09You'll see him, I think, somewhere toward the middle to end of September.
01:12And it does feel, Joe, like he is coming back to play.
01:15The Yankees are 15 games over .500.
01:17That's the good news.
01:18They've banked a lot of wins.
01:19They're in a really good position.
01:21I don't think they'll catch Tampa Bay.
01:23They are five games behind them.
01:25They're all going to play them head-to-head.
01:27There's still an opportunity there.
01:28But I still think Tampa Bay ends up winning the division.
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