Mark Teixeira's season won't be delayed by a wrist strain, but rather a a partially torn tendon sheath that could potentially require season-ending surgery.

Currently, the Yankees are expecting Teixeira to heal without needing an operation and to rejoin the club after about 8-10 weeks of healing time.

"This is one of those things I can't come back too early," he said. "We saw last season when I tried to play too early [with a calf injury] what happened. If I try to play too early from this we could miss the whole season, and we don't want that. I don't know if it's the beginning of May, the end of May, the beginning of June, I don't know when it is but we got a whole bunch of season left and the time that really matters is the playoffs."

New York's team doctor Chris Ahmad told Brian Cashman that the injury was a partially torn tendon sheath but a stable tendon, an injury that generally heals without surgery.

"Ahmad told me if he had a fully torn sheath, it's automatic surgery, and if he had a partially torn sheath with an unstable tendon, it's automatic surgery," Cashman said. "This is a best-case scenario injury, the only one that can heal without surgery."