X-Man Avoids the Knife

Wrote this for Baseball Digest.

Jon Heyman of SI.com is reporting that Xavier Nady has a partially torn ligament in his right elbow, but will avoid possible season ending surgery.

The Yankees had Nady undergo several MRI and CT scans to determine the exact cause of pain he began to experience during a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on April 14.

Nady will rehab the elbow for the next several weeks and hopes to return to the Yankees in mid- to late May.