, a Hodgkin lymphoma survivor, “tried to make it light” around Chapman with some jokes. Judge made it a point to bring baseball questions to Chapman to “get mind off of it.”A few days after the biopsy, Rigal told Chapman that he was dealing with precancerous actinic cheilitis. If left untreated, it could have developed into squamous cell carcinoma, a cancer that “can be particularly aggressive,” according to dermatologist Dr.
“It’s always a fine line,” he said. “You think about and wonder if you’re doing the right thing. At the end of the day, it’s a job that I really appreciate, that I really enjoy and have been doing with the Yankees for 11 years now.” They appreciate that he hasn’t missed a second of work throughout the scare, but they also know it’s about more than baseball.