Mark Teixeira is headed for season-ending surgery to repair his right wrist, the slugger confirmed on Wednesday.
He will have the procedure on his wrist early next week and the recovery time is approximately six months.
The first baseman underwent an MRI exam with dye contrast and four doctors, including team doctor Dr. Christopher Ahmad and wrist specialist Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser concluded that his partially torn tendon sheath had not adequately healed and recommended surgery.
The Yankees had hoped that rest would be enough to keep Teixeira on the field after he initially suffered the injury preparing for the WBC during spring training. But after just 15 games back with the Yankees, Teixeira was pulled from a June 15 game in Anaheim and received a cortisone shot the following day.
The shot proved ineffective and the soreness persisted.
GM Brian Cashman had said since Teixeira went down that surgery was a possibility and now the already undermanned Yankees will be without the slugger for the remainder of the season, even as they await the return of Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson, among others.
Lyle Overbay, who has cooled off since a strong start to the season in place of Teixeira, will be counted on even more. And as team president Randy Levine said Tuesday, since Teixeira returned from the original injury- albeit briefly- the Yankees are responsible for the remainder of his salary this season.