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TAMPA, Fla. -- The Yankees believe that there is a 70 percent chance Mark Teixeira will be able to avoid season-ending surgery on the partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist.

For those odds to work in their favor, they must be careful not to rush his recovery.

That is why Teixeira continues to say that he is not exactly sure when he will return to the Yankees' lineup.

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The team has estimated Teixeira will need eight to 10 weeks to recover from the injury, which he suffered on March 3. But Teixeira now acknowledges that he might need to miss the entire month of May.

"This is one of those things, I can't come back too early," Teixeira said.

"Unfortunately, if I try to play too early, we could miss the whole season, and we don't want that. I don't know if it's going to be middle of May, beginning of May, beginning of June. I don't know when it is, but I know that there's a whole bunch of season left -- and the time that really matters is the playoffs."

Teixeira's tendon sheath injury is similar to the one that ended the