Mark Teixeira to have season-ending wrist surgery

Gabe Lacques | USA TODAY Sports

Doctors have recommended that New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira undergo surgery to repair the sheath tendon in his right wrist, which would end his season and deal another injury blow to the second-place club.

Teixeira, 33, expects to have surgery sometime next week and would require six months to fully recover.

"It's very tough," Teixeira said at a press conference at Yankee Stadium, "especially in a season where the team could probably use me. ... I really would have loved to be a part of this."

The team released a statement Wednesday that Teixeira underwent a contrast MRI that revealed the sheath tendon "had not adequately healed."

Teixeira said he has "no regrets at all" about the course he took in rehab.

Teixeira attempted to rehabilitate the injury, suffered during spring training, and returned for 15 games. But he suffered a setback during the team's recent West Coast trip and hasn't played since June 15.

The Yankees, already missing Kevin Youkilis due to back injury, will have to get by with retread Lyle Overbay at first base. The club would figure to seek a right-handed hitting complement to Overbay at first given the permanent absence of the switch-hitting Teixeira.