Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes took his turn in a media session at Citi Field on Saturday and told reporters his shoulder feels better and that he will be ready for Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday in Kansas City.
“I don’t believe that it will limit me. I wouldn’t say that if I truly didn’t feel 100 percent. I would not have a problem stepping down and saying I can’t play.”
“I feel like I’ll be ready,” Cespedes said through his interpreter.
“Even if I’m feeling 100 percent out there, I would still just want to play,” he added. “I don’t like being a designated hitter. I don’t feel like I’m a part of the game and I want to truly contribute.”
Cespedes was removed from Game 4 of the NLCS in the second inning with a sore left shoulder. He received a cortisone injection the following day. He doesn’t know how he suffered the soreness, but offered an explanation.
“I can’t really pinpoint exactly what it is that happened,” he said. “I can tell you that I don’t usually do push-ups, and those two days over there I was doing push-ups because I didn’t have a gym I could really do other workouts in.”
October 23
The New York Mets retracted their earlier announcement this afternoon, that Yoenis Cespedes did not get a cortisone shot and are now saying HE DID get a cortisone shot on Thursday by team doctors.
“We got it looked at. We’ve got it taken care of. The doctors, they said, ‘Hey, look, he’ll be OK.’ Tomorrow we’ll find out.”
Initially this morning, the Mets told reporters that outfielder Yoenis Cespedes was not at today’s optional team workout at Citi Field and that he did not received a cortisone shot in his left shoulder as was expected.
