TAMPA – The Yankees will be without Luke Voit to start the season due to knee surgery, manager Aaron Boone said Saturday, meaning veteran Jay Bruce will open the year as a starting first baseman.
Voit, 30, will be operated on to repair a partially torn meniscus in his left knee and will be locked out of baseball activities for at least three weeks.
Boone said Voit had been playing in the left knee injury he suffered during camp, but the inflammation had recently returned and he underwent an MRI showing the tear.
“He decided to clean it up,” Boone said. “As for the schedule, he felt it was best to finish it and take care of it for most of the season.”
Bruce, 33, who will have a $ 1.5 million contract, ends up on the roster after missing the last two days of camp as the deadline for joining the 40-man roster was approaching. Yankees.