http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/wh ... -montreal/
A main talking point Tuesday will surely be why Reyes played five innings in each of the two exhibition games over the weekend in Montreal, given the hamstring issues he had the previous week. Here are some of his comments from last night:
On what he was feeling beforehand: “I just tried to play through it. I was having some problems with the hammy and when I hit the ball to centre field I saw the guy dive for the ball. I thought the ball was going to drop and bounce away from him. I tried to run a little bit faster between home plate and first base and kind of felt my hammy there. I had to slow down and get out of the game because I don’t want it to get any worse.”
Was there pain in Montreal? “It was good enough to play but I didn’t really test my leg running anywhere there. I didn’t get on base, I didn’t do anything. I just tried to play through the little soreness there in my hamstring but when you deal with that you have to be careful.”
When the Rogers house organ starts grousing about an issue, you get the feeling they may be speaking for the Central Committee
These comments from Reyes are disturbing. He says he wasn't 100% playing in Montreal on the weekend. So what was a minor hamstring tweak has become a couple of weeks on the DL. These raises a number of questions, of which these leap out at me:
-Do the Jays' medical and training staff communicate effectively with the players?
-Have they discussed the necessity with players to be forthright about the state of medical issues they are having?
-Do the Jays know how to treat injuries properly? Sounds simple enough, but the evidence suggests a lot of minor injuries aren't resolved in the originally forecast recovery time. that happens with all sports teams, but it seems to happen with the Jays more than most?
-Why, even if Reyes claimed to be 100%, did they allow him to play in Montreal? (I recognize that even had he not played in MTL, he might have re-injured yesterday, but where was the abundance of caution one would expect)?
-Were the Jays blindsided by the hype of the MTL games, putting too much emphasis on fielding a regular season lineup to start games?
