{"id":819384,"date":"2026-10-02T02:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/819384\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:30:16","slug":"yankees-need-to-put-the-brakes-on-any-ideas-of-an-aaron-judge-alds-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/819384\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees need to put the brakes on any ideas of an Aaron Judge ALDS return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this isn\u2019t a recording. It\u2019s just the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/30\/sports\/aaron-judge-takes-another-step-toward-a-yankees-playoff-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest warning about Aaron Judge\u2019s condition<\/a>, timetable and risk\/reward equation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/01\/sports\/an-aaron-judge-dilemma-hangs-over-his-yankees-return-decision\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">let him sit one more series<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And no, it\u2019s not because he isn\u2019t a postseason performer (don\u2019t forget, he hit .500 last October). And it isn\u2019t because the Yankees\u2019 vibe is too good to mess with now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after suffering a serious (\u201cmoderate,\u201d grade 2) calf tear in a tricky spot, he\u2019s making great progress. But is it enough progress?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, this isn\u2019t a recording. It\u2019s just the latest warning about Aaron Judge\u2019s condition, timetable and risk\/reward equation.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,5,4,2305,1690,62,2548,2547,185,430,428,142],"class_list":["post-819384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-aaron-judge","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117368967926470199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}