Adam Rubin of the Daily News is reporting that Carlos Delgado suffered a strained right oblique muscle while rehabbing from hip surgery in Port St. Lucie, assistant GM John Ricco said. Delgado was examined in New York by doctor Struan Coleman on Wednesday. Ricco indicated that the strain was not believed to be overly severe.
“The thought is possibly in a couple of weeks he could be back swinging,” Ricco said.
Of course, that means Delgado can’t resume doing baseball activities until the end of the month, and he still has work to do to ready the hip following surgery to repair a torn labrum and remove a bone spur.
After speaking with Coleman, Ricco said about the conversation: “The one thing he did say is the hip is feeling better.”
Ricco did acknowledge that the Mets’ injured players don’t have forever to return, even if they’re all aiming to be back this season. Carlos Beltran (bone bruise in knee) and Jose Reyes (hamstring tendon strain) remain in New York, not working out in Florida.
“You’re going to run out of days at some point,” Ricco said.
So in the immortal words of our GM Omar Minaya, “we’ll continue to wait for our guys to come back. Why should we go out and trade for people when help is on the way?”
Or as our team leader Jerry Manuel said, “As long as we play .500 ball, we’ll be right there in the thick of it when our guys come back.”
Or as P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
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I am not surprised to hear this what so ever, I have pretty much accepted that Beltran, Reyes, Delgado, Maine will not be back this yr
Or as P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
That’s genius and you could apply it to a bunch of Mets fans I know that have been drinking the Mets Koolaid for three years.
“There is no better midseason pick-up than the guys we will be getting back.”
Carlos who?
Strained oblique, couple week setback translated from Mets trainerspeak to real world time…. If my calculations are correct, we should see Carlos Delgado back in the lineup…just in time for the 2011 All Star game.
The Mets have poo pooed on these injuries altogether too much. They’ve been taking us on a ride down the yellow brick road to see the wizard of smoke and mirrors. His name is Omar. The front office is either liars to the core or just plain fools. Either way, mgmt is incompetent and needs to be completely overhauled. Simply waiting for these guys to come back was a fool’s game and Omar wears the dunce cap.