While the Yankees will be without Anthony Volpe on Opening Day after the shortstop had his left shoulder surgically repaired, a far more important member of the team’s lineup avoided the knife.

That would be Aaron Judge, who will not have his right elbow operated on this offseason after suffering a right flexor strain midway through the 2025 season . Aaron Boone shared that welcomed update on Thursday as he and Brian Cashman held their postmortem press conference at Yankee Stadium a week after their club’s elimination in the ALDS.

“He actually had an MRI after the season,” Boone said. “It showed continued improvement in the flexor muscles, and he finished the season doing pretty well. So no surgery is going to be needed for Aaron.”

There had been some speculation that Judge would req

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