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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes is cautiously optimistic about a return to action in the middle of April after an MRI on Tuesday revealed only mild inflammation in his troubled left hamstring.
Reyes called the test results "a relief" and compared his current injury to one that happened with the New York Mets in 2011, when he ended up hitting the DL twice, and feels some rest now should take care of the problem.
"If I compare that with the one that happened in New York, it should be enough," he said. "I don’t want to put a date because with hamstrings you never know. (Monday) I felt good that I was going to play and you see what happens. With hamstrings you never know, you feel good and when you try to run you have a setback. So I have to be careful with it."
Debate raged Tuesday over whether the Blue Jays were careful enough with their prized shortstop by letting him play in two exhibition games at Montreal over the weekend, a suggestion manager John Gibbons bristled at.
"We wouldn’t have put him out there if we didn’t feel confident," Gibbons said. "He had a few days off, figured it was a minor thing, you’ve got to test him sooner or later, right? He came out of the games feeling good. He’d been tested on the back fields before we left and all that, it’s one of those things that happen."
Reyes made the same point, arguing that he "was able to play through it like that."
"I don’t want to say I felt great, but I felt OK to play and then I come here (Monday), feel better than I did in Montreal and you see what happened. Hamstrings are tricky man. …
"I wanted to play because I know what happened last year to me, second week of the season I went down to the DL. I don’t want that to happen, that was my thinking before the season. I want to be here for this team, helping this ball club as much as I can so hopefully it won’t be longer than two weeks but like I said I’m going to take it one day at a time, one game at a time, and go from there."
Reyes also says he doesn’t believe playing on turf is a factor. The two games in Montreal and the series in Tampa are all on artificial surfaces, as are all Blue Jays home games in Toronto.
"I don’t worry about that because last year I was able to play through it with no problems in my hamstring," he said. "The only problem that I had last year was my ankle, I didn’t have no problem with my hamstrings. My concern right now is get the hamstring right and get ready to go play baseball. I can’t be concerned about the turf because the turf is going to be there. And, everybody knows the turf is not good not just for the leg, for anybody. But like I said, the turf is going to be there, that’s our home, so I have to deal with it, find a routine so I can stay on the field and play for this team."
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