Baltimore Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts received good news from doctors in Sarasota regarding his back injury. Roberts MRI showed no new problems related to his herniated disk that kept him out of 100 games in 2010.
Roberts told Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun that his goal is to be on the field on Opening Day and that Baltimore’s doctors are optimistic that his goals are realistic.
#Orioles Brian Roberts is feeling good again: “I don’t think this is going to be a long progression. I don’t think anybody foresees that.”
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“Last year was 100 times worse,” Roberts told Zrebiec. “But really, and I know it sounds terrible, we’re just going to take it a day at a time right now.”
Let me just go over a timeline real quickly.
A few days into camp after stating he felt the best he had in years, Roberts “wakes up” with a sore neck.
The neck keeps him out for a few days but he swears it had nothing to do with his back. He even mocked a reporter who asked about it with.
A week and a half later he reports having back spasms. They linger and eventually he goes in for another MRI and some injections.
After that, he reveals that he’s been experiencing neck pain since JANUARY.
So let me get this straight. He came into camp claiming to feel better than he had in years. He claimed he just slept on his neck wrong. Yet fast forward a few weeks and he now says he’s been experiencing neck pain since January? Well how in the world did he feel the best in had in years if that was case? And how can you claim that you just “slept on it wrong” if in reality you had neck pain for 2 months prior?
Now, of course, the injury is in NO WAY related to last years injury. Yea, right.
The latest quotes from Roberts are a repeat from last spring training.
The guy has a chronic bad back and is sliding head first into 1B in a spring training game.
But hey, at least he only did steroids “once” and he got that 4th year on his extension to keep him around through 2013 at 10 million a year!!!!!
Hate to say it, but I think Mark’s right. 2488 also called this last year. Once you injury your back, I think you’re toast no matter how you try to spin it.