30
2009
More Mets Dysfunction Regarding Jose Reyes
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Only moments ago, Jerry Manuel spoke to reporters before the game according to MetsBlog. Matt writes,
Jerry Manuel told reporters Jose Reyes felt discomfort while running yesterday, and will be re-examined today. Manuel believes the team and Reyes will make a decision regarding surgery as soon as tomorrow, though a team spokesman quickly dismissed that any such timetable exists.
I just can’t think of any other team handling one of their core players with as much dysfunction as the New York Mets have.
They have bungled the situation from day one including rushing him back which only worsened the original injury, and then in an attempt to rush him back again, caused Reyes to develop a second leg injury.
In the months that followed, they continued upon a reckless course of action so that they could prod him back on the field and proclaim he was healthy when in fact he was not.
Only two weeks ago, the matter of surgery came up again, but they insisted on delaying the decision and allowing Jose Reyes not only to continue his comeback, but to leave the final decision regarding his surgery to him rather than heeding the advice of medical experts.
The Mets can blame the lost season on the injuries all they want, but in many regards and with some of those injuries, you can blame the dysfunctional Mets for doing little to help these players, and almost always making the wrong call on a course of action. Especially where Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, John Maine and Oliver Perez are concerned.
What hurts the most about this pending Reyes decision is the fact that it will ultimately lead to off season surgery, a surgery that should have been performed months ago. If Reyes has the surgery now, he may not be ready to play again until late April or even May, and that’s assuming he suffers no setbacks, like the 7-8 setbacks he has had in the last five months.
Unbelievable.
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Of all the boondoggles this year, the Jose Reyes story is the worst. It was clear 4 months ago that he needed surgery. When they announced the diagnosis was a tendon tear, it was plain as the nose on Fred’s face that surgery was required. Now that the 2009 season has been destroyed by mismanagement, they are well on the way to putting the kebosh on 2010 as well. How is Omar still planted in his office like the worthless vegetable that he is?
I’d be curious how the surgery is performed and what the “normal” recovery time is. I’ve never heard of a torn muscle simply repairing itself over time? I know Reyes has been receiving “treatments” but why the wait? Where they hoping for scar tissue to form over the injury?
Anyone have any insight into this type of injury and how it has been treated by other teams?Reye’s 50 stolen bases and 110 runs scored are impossible to make up! Lets pray Reyes is ready by opening day.
It was reported as a completely torn hamstring tendon. It is a tendon tear not a muscle tear. Tendons do not heal by themselves whatsoever. It is claimed that this particular tendon is irrelevant and has no function, therefore does not need to be repaired. The problem is that every time he has attmepted to run, he has felt pain or discomfort behind his knee. Apparently the loose end of the tendon is causing inflammation and irritation. It either needs to be reattached, an artifical tendon grafted in its place, or completely removed. They need to choose the correct option and submit him to surgery. This has gone on alltogether too long.
There is new news this evening on the Reyes injury. It turns out that he has now complicated the injury one more time. This time around by trying to run, the tendon tear has now been extended so that the hamstring muscle itself is now torn. It remains undecided regarding what course of action will be taken.
So now we have gone from 1. a strain to 2. a partial tendon tear to 3. a complete tendon tear to now 4. a complete tendon tear plus a msucle tear as well. This has become a completely surreal situation.
In my opinion, it is not beyond impossible that his career has been totally jepoardized. His condition sounds like a total mess to me. It has only gone from bad to worse. Great job Mets…
I’m no doctor, but common sense tells us if they would’ve performed surgery to reattach the tendon when they found it, his current “rehab” would actually be productive. I simply cannot understand why the continual mismanagement of the injuries has not raised major media eyebrows. It has been one right after the other, it is absolutely baffling no one has been called to the carpet for this. Jose Reyes and Johan are two of the biggest stars we have. what more is it going to take for the coupons to open their eyes?
The oupons are unable to handle any of this. They are apparently so bereft of their lost financials that everything else is irrelevant. Omar is cowering in his office. Jerry is hanging on and trying to eke out W possible to save his butt. Everything else is of no consequence to any of them. Reyes who?
well sounds like we need to make it “you want me to buy what tickets?”
the doctors know what they are doing and they always have. the problem with the mets is that they let the inmates run the asylum. almost all of the inmates are players, but one of them is omar. we ar edealing with the ultra stupid reyes being afraid of surgery and not wanting to do it. how about not paying him his salary?
Why the Mets had Jose out running, when theres 4 games left in a meaningless season, is beyond me. Homeless junkies with AIDS make better decisions than the Mets do.
It’s bad enough that they have no idea how to build a baseball team. But now they’re trying to go out and ruin this kids career. Had they DL’d him immediately back in May and gave him 6-8 weeks, like the Angels did with Hunter, he’s be fine now. But they won’t just give the kid time to heal. Hamstings take 2-3 months of no activity to completley heal. I doubt Reyes ever got more than 2 weeks.
I’m done. I quit. Someone let me know when the Wilpons sell the team. Until then whenever someone mentions the “Mets” I’ll just stare at them like their speaking another language.
“You know, times are changing, the Mets can compete now. They just signed Vlad Guerrero and you’re going to learn how to deal with it.”
“What? Were you saying something? Look, I don’t speak Spanish.”
By the way, MetsBlog is reporting that Jose now has a torn right hamstring in addition to the torn tendon. The hammy injury occurred while trying to run the bases a few days ago.
http://www.metsblog.com/2009/09/30/news-jose-reyes-now-has-a-torn-hamstring/
This is beyond ridiculous!!! I simply cannot understand why this has not reached serious media attention….
It was reported on SNY on the Post Game report by Ojeda and Carlin. They took it calmly and simply stated it will get fixed. But the way this has been mishandled, I can’t help wondering whether he will actually play again. Ojeda said the Mets need to go out and get a better backup S/S than what they currently have. Yeah right, how are they going to do that? Can we actually call the backup S/S on this team a backup, given that the so-called starter will soon be going on disability retirement?
As much blame as can be spread around from the Wilpons on down to Jose wanting to come back to show that he was a gamer, I put a lot of this on the media and the “know it all” fans.
How many times did we hear thru the media that “players” in the clubhouse were questioning Jose’s work ethic or mental approach to his injury(ies)?
Jose being who he is plus remembering what happened to him early in his Mets career decided to take the “team and team-mates” first approach.
NOT!
He is a young man who knows that he depends on his legs to be the players he wants to be and whom the fans and Mets want him to be, so he worried as any young athlete who has been enjoying personal success and is loved by fans and team, decides to comeback before he should of, LA, got hurt then tried rest, rehab and some running hoping to comeback. Apparently he was not rehabbing fast enough for a desperate fan base, in the blogs and posts, coming off 2 “foldem” seasons plus the image that the media had painted on him cause of a few incidents on running or refusing to leave game when Mgr asked him too. So now he became a selfish, ungrateful, pampered player who fans, in the “smart” internet/blogs wanted to trade for a boatload of imaginary players that would turn this season and next around.
Did any of you fans out there ever consider what this young man was going through mentally when you see your team losing players, games and you hear talk about your thinking of yourself before your team and not being serious about rehab?
We Met fans have an exciting ball player here who has played over 155 games for 3 straight years plus has provided defense that none of the current fill ins and very few in MLB can match.
Ask the pitchers who miss his range on ground balls and pop outs how much they, Pelfrey especially, missed him.
Nope; we serious Met fans wanted him back yesterday if not before.
I know that he shares in the blame for being stubborn about maybe rehabing would get him back, but isn’t this the kind of player we want, who despite being hurt does not want to mail it in, Delgado, who could of shut it down for the year but did not.
Let’s appreciate the special player that we have here because the Mets have not had a player like Jose come thru the system, nope Ordonez does not count, who excites the fans “only Doc and Straw”, energizes his team and is a thorn to other teams, who would take him in a heart beat.
I pray that no long term set back affect Jose this off season and he has a monster season next year so he can sign that contract that will keep him as a Met for life, alongside his friend David.