5
2011
Mets Injury Updates On Wright, Reyes, Davis, Santana
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Jose Reyes Feelin’ No Pain
Jose Reyes played catch at Dodger Stadium on Monday afternoon and was in great spirits, saying he felt no pain in his strained left hamstring. Still, the Mets will hold him out an extra day or two as an extra precaution.
“To get him for one game tonight or tomorrow and then lose him for three weeks is just stupid,” manager Terry Collins said prior to Monday’s game. “So I’m going to make sure.”
It was actually right here at Dodger Stadium two seasons ago, that Reyes attempted to play through a right hamstring strain which he tore, requiring season-ending surgery.
Wright Will Not Begin Minor League Rehab This Week
The Mets will play it safe with third baseman David Wright and back off their original plan to have him begin a Minor League assignment this week.
Manager Terry Collins warned that “Wright hasn’t run in six weeks,” and that he will need to get “his legs back underneath him” before he can start ramping up for a return to full baseball activities.
Wright is recovering from a stress fracture in his lower back and is expected to join the Mets in late July.
A Big Test For Ike Davis
Here is some encouraging news from the desert as the Mets are now optimistic that Ike Davis may be able to avoid season ending surgery on his left ankle.
Davis, who is in Arizona recovering from a bone bruise is said to be feeling better according to Collins, and he will attempt to run for the very first time next week. Mets general manager Sandy Alderson calls it the next big step. Depending on how that goes, the club will determine if surgery is necessary.
Fingers crossed everyone.
Johan throws off mound for second time
Johan Santana threw off a mound again Monday in Port St. Lucie, and will do so again on Thursday. After that, the Mets left-hander could begin an extended Spring Training-type program followed by a minor league rehab, and eventually a return to the Mets.
“He threw another bullpen today, which is good,” Sandy Alderson said. “Let’s see how he feels tomorrow, and what the schedule is for the rest of the week. I think we’re approaching that transition point. But Johan himself, and how he responds to these sessions, will dictate how quickly he progresses.”
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reyes will be back sooner than expected, but even collins is aware of how poorly mishandle this org runs the injuries on players the last few years, he won’t be stupid enough to lose reyes for more just to have him in the lineup.. for a few extra games we ca nbe fine..
david is not going to be the same player this season,once a “power” hitter has back issues the player is not the same, if he comes and is the line drive hitter he was when there was no pressure (2006-2008) then i’ll be fine with him in the lineup. don’t rush or things can get worst.. either way, the way turner has hit the “rookie wall” wright is much needed on the team (funny, the 2 “franchize” player of NY are out, and the teams play better w/o them)
ike davis is done for the season.. imo, either soft or the injury was related to something we didn’t know about and it worsen or something, but that didn’t look as bad to me..
johan, 50% of johan santana is better than anything we throw out there every day.. i hope he comes back and gives us a lift, maybe we can ship pelfrey out of here..
The Wright injury reminds me a lot of what happened to Don Mattingly. He was never the same when he came back and his power was gone.
but maniac, wright was at his best when he was a line drive hitter, i mean, even his hr’s at shea stadium were line drives, he never was a slugger per se, he became one (or at least try) and with that process he became a strikeout machine, a pull hitter, and we’ve seen his AVG dip, his strikeouts total increase and rarely never driving the ball to right field as before.. who knows, maybe this injury to his back will remind him what made him a good hitter (specially on 2 strikes, where he was a very good hitter)
Sometimes I am left to wonder….
If our Medical staff thinks it was just a grade 1 strain then history would suggest Reyes is about to have his leg amputated! LOL (Sick joke, but a joke nonetheless!)
One thing is for certain, Sandy is going to get to see what his team can do without a Jose Reyes and so far it has been ok. Thats doesn’t make Jose Expendable in fact it shows that he doesn’t really need to send his best player away to restock the minors because the guys we have are good enough to win games even without Reyes!
They should use caution and give these guys extra time to get better. Keep Wright and Davis out till after the ASB and start the 2nd half at full strength.
Only a protracted losing streak could change that and truth is if there is a long losing streak we will probably be sellers anyway!
Reyes I suspect we will see before the ASB maybe even in this series.
Wright not until after the ASB.
Davis will depend on his upcoming run test
and Santana I dont’t expect to see until August the earliest.
We don’t just need those guys back we need them to be at full game speed and hitting otherwise they could be another version of Beltran coming back and slumping for a month while he gets back into hitting shape.
I would rather play Turner, Gee, Tejada, Murphy and Duda than a Wright Davis and Santana trying to get back into the swing of things in a situation where it counts!
Give them a good MiL tuneup and make them hit for average, Let Santana pitch 4 or 5 games in the Minors to get into the K Zone.
There is no reason to rush any of them back!
If the return time from microfracture surgey on Ike Davis is 6-8 months as they said on daily news live, why are they still wasting time? It’s been almost 2 months and he is still not able to run? This makes no sense because they’ve already seen what happened when they waited for Delgado’s and Beltran’s bone bruises, and Ike’s is not on the hip or knee, it’s on his ankle where the entire weight of his body puts pressure on it.