The New York Yankees have received a pair of seemingly late diagnoses over the last year, but Brian Cashman has no concerns about the team's medical procedures.

Mark Teixeira fouled a ball off his left leg on August 17, but it wasn't until the third set of tests on September 11 that a fracture was revealed in the slugger's shin.

Greg Bird missed the first month of last season with a right shoulder injury. Tests were done on the shoulder right after the season, but it wasn't until he reported discomfort recently that more tests were done and a torn labrum was found.

"We deal with two of the biggest and best hospitals in the world -- New York Presbyterian and the Hospital for Special Surgery. Both of them were completely on top of this and both saw it the same way," Cashman said.

"There is no second-guessing involved. Both [hospitals] saw [Bird] last May, they saw him in October and they both saw him now. Nothing was missed. We have two separate behemoths involved that guide us and him, and that is exactly what we have done."