Milwaukee Brewers’ Rickie Weeks adjusting as sprained ankle heals – MLB News
It appears the Milwaukee Brewers’ second baseman Rickie Weeks will never have the kind of fitness he once had after having a severely sprained left ankle. On Wednesday, February 22, the team manager Ron Roenicke said things might not be same for Weeks again.
"I'm not planning on reining [Weeks] back at all unless something comes up with it, but just personal experience, I tore up an ankle like he did and it really never is the same," Roenicke said. "Now, does that change the way you play? No. But you never have
the same flexion you did before, you feel it more often.”
The team manager’s statement came at a time when he had recently been informed that Weeks was feeling short of his characteristic 100 percent. The injury affected Weeks the past season, in July, which was predicted to hold something not very propitious for
the player.
Roenicke, having had the similar problem in 1981, can speak with authority over the subject. Broadening the horizon, he stated that with a sprained ankle, things do not remain the same again.
“It's almost like a guy aging a little bit and he may be a bit slower -- I'm not saying Rickie will be -- but any time you sprain an ankle that bad, it's never the same."
While the sprained ankle is of great worry for both the player and the club, he is still expected to execute things with his usual competitive he is known for.
The 29-year-old player with an experience of seven years occupies a relatively prominent place in the club. The past season, he held an average of .269 in the 118 games that he had appeared, scoring a total 77 runs with 49 RBIs to his credit; having had
no less than 20 home-runs.
While there was a lot that he cannot do in the 11 postseason games in 41 at-bats, maintaining a .146 average, as it remains to be seen how he performs this season as the club will be defending its National League title that it won after 28 years.
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