Breaking News: A-Rod not ready to play vs. Mets

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UPDATE, 6:01 p.m.: The MRI taken today on Alex Rodriguez revealed progress but not enough to start playing in rehab games. Joe Girardi just told the media that Rodriguez will not be activated this week, meaning he’s out for the Mets series.

“We can’t afford to have him come back for two days then lose him for six weeks,” Girardi said. “We want to have him fully healed.”

“We can’t afford to have him come back for two days then lose him for six weeks,” Girardi said. “We want to have him fully healed.”

At least Girardi is learning from his mistakes of allowing Posada and A-Rod to play through their injuries. Hopefully it's a case of being overcautious as opposed to the injury actually being worse than we originaly thought.

At least from this report it looks like he's healing, as opposed to it being very bad. But you never know if Joe's being up front about it.

By KAT O’BRIEN
Kat.OBrien@Newsday.com

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – An MRI today on Alex Rodriguez’s strained right quadriceps muscle showed that the muscle is still not completely healed, and he will not be able to come off the disabled list when eligible on Thursday.
“I don’t see him playing this week,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said after hearing the results.
Rodriguez initially injured his quad April 20th in Baltimore. He returned to action that Friday, April 25th, in Cleveland, but re-injured it on Monday, April 28th, in Cleveland and was placed on the disabled list April 30th. The Yankees had been hopeful that today’s MRI would be clean, and that he could start playing in rehab games tomorrow.
But the MRI showed the muscle still has some damage. Said Girardi: “He will not play in rehab games, at least not for a couple days. It’s still not where it needs to be.”
The injury has gotten better, or, Girardi said, they would shut him down completely. Rodriguez will continue to take batting practice and field ground balls at the Yankees’ minor league complex in Tampa. He has not begun to sprint yet.

Steve, I kind of figures this... just days before Girardi said he was doing fine , the NESN line had him going for an MRI ( which is typical) and it always seems every manager   gives ya' the 1/2 glass full version, lol

Especially Girardi, he's gotten off to a bad start with the beat reporters for not being straight up with them regarding Hughes's injury and other things. But lately they say he's gotten along better with them. I'm just hoping this isn't going to get worse with A-Rod. I'm happy their at least making him sit it out until he's 100% ready, rather than it becoming a season long lingering injury issue.