Yankees’ Voit Out for First Month of Season With Knee Injury

Luke Voit, the Yankees’ first baseman and the major-league home run champion last season, will miss at least the first month of the season to have knee surgery.

Voit, who had been dealing with knee soreness throughout spring training, will have the partly torn meniscus in his left knee repaired next week in New York, Manager Aaron Boone said on Saturday.

Jay Bruce, who had been waiting at home for the Yankees to decide whether they still wanted him, will become the team’s primary first baseman, Boone said. Bruce, 33, a former three-time All-Star, had exercised the opt-out clause in his minor-league contract on Thursday, which started a 48-hour window for the Yankees to add him to the major-league roster or release him.

“I literally knew nothing until very, very recently,” said Bruce, who was given the news early Saturday morning. “I just sat at my house. I kind of felt like I was quarantining.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/sports/baseball/yankees-luke-voit-knee-out.html