This is just bizarre.
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2024/08/yankees-alex-verdugos-hitting-struggles-are-a-mystery-that-maybe-only-doctors-can-solve.html
Verdugo used the midseason break to decompress, but there was another reason he stayed in New York: a doctor’s appointment. After three seasons of sores and pain in his hands and fingers, Verdugo was tired of constantly wrapping his palms with gauze and knuckles with medical tape. And as much as he was convinced his hands weren’t the reason for his slumping, his statistics suggested something was wrong.