The New York Yankees say the original three-week projection for Aaron Judge's return from a wrist injury was overly optimistic.

"We thought maybe three weeks would cover it, but it's going to be longer than that," Brian Cashman told WFAN 101.9 FM. "So, we missed on the time frame."

Judge suffered a chip fracture of his right wrist after getting hit by a pitch three weeks ago.

"We want to get basically all that pain out of there, when he's at that full supination or whatever you call it -- where he's fully turned at that end point where he's still feeling that little bit of pain," Aaron Boone said, mimicking the wrist-turn motion of a swing. "Once that is, again, it's bat in hand, and I think he goes quickly from there."