Justin Hollander met with the media prior to the Mariners\u2019 series opener with the Diamondbacks to provide updates on some key injured Mariners. Unfortunately, there\u2019s no set timetable for return for either Cal Raleigh (oblique) or Brendan Donovan (groin), even though both are making steady progress in their recoveries.<\/p>\n
Donovan remains in Arizona, but has not yet progressed to baseball activities. The team\u2019s chief concern for Donovan is his ability to run, given the nature of his lower body injury. Currently he\u2019s running on an anti-gravity treadmill, with the hopes that he can transition to a baseball running progression on a field next week when the team heads out on the road, provided he clears the next couple of days without the pain returning. For the baseball running progression, he\u2019ll start by running in straight lines before moving to more intense game-type movement: lateral cuts, starts and stops, etc. Hollander says it\u2019s a deliberately slow build to try to ensure Donovan\u2019s injury won\u2019t be re-aggravated during normal baseball activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are the type of injuries that you want to be really deliberate with to makes ure we don\u2019t have any kind of setback like we did last time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cal Raleigh will make a visit to the team tomorrow from where he\u2019s been rehabbing in Arizona tomorrow and get a check-in with the medical staff in Seattle while also being able to connect with his teammates. \u201cI think he misses us,\u201d said Hollander. In addition to catching and playing long toss, Raleigh swung off a tee today – 15 swings per side – at moderate (80%) intensity. The goal is next time for him to ramp up the intensity rather than increase the number of reps. Similar to Donovan, the team is managing Raleigh\u2019s ramp-up very carefully, and there\u2019s no official timetable for his return.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to build responsibly and make sure that when he cuts it loose at 100%, that he feels 100%\u201d, said Hollander.<\/p>\n
While it can be frustrating for fans – and for the players themselves – to not have a definitive timeline for their return, Hollander was careful to highlight why the organization is being especially careful with these two players, known for their gritty play style and high pain tolerance levels, in particular.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want to treat the patient, not just treat the diagnosis,\u201d said Hollander. \u201cAnd I think the reason we\u2019re being extra-cautious with these guys [Donovan and Raleigh] is I think if we put a date on the calendar and say they\u2019re going to go on a rehab assignment on this day, they will go on the rehab assignment on that day, whether they\u2019re actually feeling good enough to do it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to say we\u2019re ignoring what they\u2019re saying, but we\u2019re taking what they\u2019re saying in the context of who they are and making sure that when they\u2019re ready to go out, they\u2019re actually ready to go out and not playing to the day on the calendar that they set up for them weeks in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Hollander met with the media prior to the Mariners\u2019 series opener with the Diamondbacks to provide updates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,250456,82],"class_list":["post-702965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-seattle-mariners-injuries","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}