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February 23, 2007
Dodgers: There are injuries, and then there are injuries
Veteran outfielder Larry Bigbie, who is in camp on a minor-league contract and a long shot to make the club, missed the final four months of last season, and it wasn't because of a torn ligament or a muscle strain. "I had hernia surgery," he said. "When they discovered it, they said I had probably had it for more than a year already without knowing it." This was not a "sports hernia," an injury that only began to be diagnosed in recent years. This was an actual, honest-to-goodness hernia. What followed was a grueling rehabilitation process that has put Bigbie's career, in his own words, "back at square one." Bigbie said he won't have a true gauge on where he is in his recovery until after he plays several Grapefruit League games. He has an out clause in his contract, but he also says that if he feels at the end of camp that he needs more work to get back to where he was before the hernia, he has no problem with going to Triple-A Las Vegas to begin the season.
Posted by Tony Jackson at February 23, 2007 05:53 AM