With too much going wrong to get into details in the constraints of newspaper space, here's a little more on the Mets' troubling updates of Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran today.
Reyes:
Out since May 20, Reyes has been set back twice already, finally being diagnosed with a tear of his lower hamstring behind his right knee. Well, he reported to Port St. Lucie last week to try to accelerate his progress and returned to New York Tuesday to receive a cortisone injection. Omar Minaya tried to portray this as not a setback, but it's hard to see it as anything but.
Reyes will be shut down for a few days now before trying to resume his play in Florida. He will certainly be shut down beyond the wishful-thinking prognosis of just after the All-Star break.
Beltran:
He went on the DL on June 22 after playing much of the season with a deep bone bruise in his right knee. Since a trip to Colorado last week affirmed the diagnosis of rest as a solution, Beltran received his second bout of platelet replacement treatment, hoping to speed the healing. But he's still inactive, just riding a bike and doing work in a pool.
While
Carlos Delgado was the biggest question mark before, a 37-year-old trying to
return from major hip surgery, Minaya confessed that the best he could hope for
was that maybe they would return before Delgado.
“I
would like to think that they’re closer than Carlos Delgado is,” Minaya said.
“When that is, I don’t know that. Delgado, we’re talking about the middle of
August. We hope that these other guys are (back) before that.”
On the bright side, Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver are on the cover this week's Sports Illustrated. That might help me get through this rough Mets stretch!
Posted by: JRJ | 07/08/2009 at 03:22 AM