Update: Carlos Beltran will try to play through elbow injury

5:31pm: Beltran will try to swing a bat on Monday, Joe Girardi announced. If that doesn’t go well, he will have surgery.

3:26pm: Via Mark Feinsand: Carlos Beltran will try to play through the bone spur in his elbow. If there is too much pain, he will have surgery and be sidelined for roughly two months. He received a second cortisone shot over the weekend.

Beltran, 37, is not eligible to be activated off the disabled list until next Wednesday, so I assume he’ll spend the next several days trying to hit. He might try to “play through” the bone spur without actually playing for the Yankees, if that makes sense. If it bothers him in the batting cage or in minor league games, Beltran could decide to have the surgery without ever actually being activated. Seems like he knows he needs the surgery but will try to put it off until the offseason. We’ll see.