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| - New York Yankees star Aaron Judge missed a second straight training game Sunday with a stiff neck that manager Aaron Boone indicated wasn't a big concern with the coronavirus-delayed season looming. "He's in getting treatment now," Boone said Sunday, 'getting a little more work. "He is still a little stiff and (it's) just something that obviously we don't want to push at this point." Boone had indicated Saturday he didn't think the issue was a "big deal". Judge missed all of spring training in the build up to Major League Baseball's planned March 23 season opening with shoulder trouble, which turned out to stem from a rib stress fracture suffered in September. When the COVID-19 pandemic put the season on hold, Judge locked down in Florida, rehabbing and when restrictions allowed working out at the Yankees' spring training facility. "It's been a couple of weeks, a month or so, I've been able to swing (a bat)," Judge said last week. "We were getting our work done in Tampa, I've been going into the facility and getting in the cages, getting on the field every once in a while so it feels good to be back on the field." Major League teams have been conducting workouts for the past week in preparation for the delayed and shortened 2020 season, which is due to start on July 23. bb/dj
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