Juan Soto Provides Update on Injury Ahead of Yankees-Dodgers Series

Juan Soto left the New York Yankees vs. Minnesota Twins game on Thursday night with left forearm discomfort.

Soto was removed after the 56-minute rain delay, and Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after the game that he was taken out for precautionary reasons after his forearm, which has been bothering him for a week or so, felt soreness.

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Soto spoke to reporters after Boone, and provided an update of his own on his status, and when the injury initially flared up.

“I don’t have the right specific date, but it’s been like a week-and-a-half or two,” Soto said. “I’ve just been grinding through it.”

Was there a specific moment when it happened?

“No, not at all,” Soto said. “I actually just wake up one day, feel the tightness and the discomfort in my forearm. We’ve been working on it and we’ve been trying to get away with it, and it hasn’t go out.”

Soto was also asked if there’s a specific thing that makes it start hurting, whether it be swinging or throwing.

“It’s not any specific activities. It’s kind of funny that it doesn’t hurt me whenever I throw or hitting,” Soto said. “It’s more like soreness that I feel with any kind of move that I make with my arm. But definitely don’t stop me from anything baseball-wise and like in the field.”

Soto has been able to play through it, but on Thursday, the team decided to take him out of the game after the rain delay.

“We all decided to not start getting warm again after an hour sitting down here, start getting hot again, one minute up, we don’t want to risk anything like that so we just decided to stop it,” Soto said.

Soto is set to undergo imaging on Friday. He was asked if he was concerned.

“I don’t know what it’s gonna show,” Soto said, “but definitely I know we getting the imaging and then see what’s gonna happen.”

Soto is having an MVP-caliber season in his first year in New York, slashing .318/.424/.603 with 17 home runs, 53 RBIs, 46 walks, and a 1.027 OPS. He’s actually raised his average over the last couple of weeks, so it’s clear this forearm discomfort wasn’t affecting his play.

Soto and the Yankees are hosting Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend in what could be a World Series preview.

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Soto will undergo imaging before there’s any update on his status for Friday’s series opener.