A day after Aaron Hicks underwent wrist surgery, Aaron Boone unofficially closed the door on his center fielder’s season.
The Yankees expect to be without Hicks for the rest of the year as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn sheath in his left wrist.
“It looks like it’s going to cost him the year,” Boone said Thursday before a doubleheader against the Blue Jays. “I think it’s that 4-6 month — this is something that obviously, I guess with any injury, but this is definitely not something that you want to rush back from. It’s my understanding that it’ll probably spill into the offseason, his rehab. But I haven’t got a concrete timeline exactly.”
Hicks, who underwent the surgery Wednesday in Arizona, played just 32 games this season. He hit .194 with a .627 OPS, though he had just been starting to heat up in the two weeks before he hit the injured list.
