As Cleveland Indians decline Grady Sizemore’s option, centre-fielder looks for better season
Grady Sizemore, who did not have a particularly good 2011 season due to numerous injuries, is looking forward to a better season. A free agent now, he has got “steady” offers till now after his team the Cleveland Indians, declined his option for 2012.
Opting for paying the $500,000 buyout, the Cleveland Indians had decided not to avail the 9-million-dollar option for 2012. Grady Sizemore was plagued by a string of injuries that spoiled the 2011 season.
Having first had micro-fracture surgery a right knee contusion and then seeing the disabled list due to another right knee injury, he also had sports hernia surgery that did not allow him to play an active part for the team in 2011.
Thus the Indians decision to decline the 9-million-dollar option for him must have come either as a surprise or one that was outright shocking. But his agent Joe Urbon stated that they will try to find the best opportunity for him.
"The minute they chose not to exercise the option we informed Grady that we will find the best opportunity to allow him to show his health and that he is the elite player that everyone was used to seeing from 2005 to 2008," said Urbon.
The micro-fracture that he had might have been a worrying issue, but Urbon tried to downplay that, saying the player was structurally sound to show up in the games if due diligence was paid to his health.
"The microfracture is not an issue," Urbon said. "He's as structurally as sound as you can be, and nothing he has suffered is chronic. He missed parts of three years."
In the total of 71 games that he played in 2011 regular season, he scored 34 runs, having hit 60 hits with 10 home-runs to his credit. Sizemore has 32 RBIs, averaging .224 with a career average of .269 in 892 games that he played in his career. It will be
interesting to see where Sizemore ends up as he is a tremendously talented player that has the capacity to provide a valuable impact to any team.
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