MickeyDavis wrote:Weeks has been ready to go for a few days now. Yost said this yesterday:
"Of course, you (ideally) want Rickie to go on a (minor-league) rehab so he's ultra-sharp when he comes back," Yost said. "But we don't really want to do that so he's going to have to sharpen up his offensive skills with us.I don't get it. "Ideally" you want him to go to the minors and then "we don't really want to do that". What does that mean? Did Weeks refuse to do it?
One batting session against Elmer is not good enough. He could have been with Nashville over the weekend to get some live pitching and fielding. Instead he sits in the dugout in Minnesota.
Weeks didn't refuse to do it or anything like that.
I recently communicated with someone within the organization about this very issue (I was perplexed as well) and was informed that Weeks will continue to have an issue with the scar tissue on his wrist, at least for the rest of this season.
Therefore, a decision was made not to "waste his at bats" on a rehab assignment, given that there is a belief that he has a finite number of ABs at his disposal before needing to be placed on the DL again. They hope to somehow avoid that, or at least limit it to just one more short stint on the DL (or perhaps one week of not playing at some point, without going on the DL).
We are also supposed to expect to see a platoon of Counsell/Graffanino at 2B once a week still, with them trying to relegate Rickie to 5 games each week, six at the most (although in a seven game week, Rickie still might only play 5 of those games).
There is a concern that the scar tissue issue will continue to have a negative effect on Weeks' production throughout the season as well, although the hope is that if given one or two days of rest each week, that negative impact can be reduced.
