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Plans, Meet Wrench
2004-10-26 13:51
by Jon Weisman

Dodger outfielder Jayson Werth might not be ready for Spring Training and/or might need Tommy John surgery after partially tearing a ligament in his right elbow during the playoffs, Ken Gurnick reports today on Dodgers.com.

Los Angeles can insert Hee Seop Choi into the lineup to replace Steve Finley if he signs with another team or Werth if he is injured. But the Dodgers are not currently set up to replace both players. And that's before we even discuss the status of Adrian Beltre.

For his part, Werth had a positive prognosis. From Gurnick's story:

"I'm pretty sure I can rehab it for the next four to six weeks and it'll be OK," he said from his home in Illinois. "We're doing deep massage, all kinds of things. I know my body pretty well."

Werth injured the elbow in the third inning of Game 1 of the Division Series in St. Louis, trying to throw out Scott Rolen as he scored on an Edgar Renteria double.

But Werth said that the elbow had been bothering him for a month and speculated that he might have adjusted his throwing motion to compensate for the discomfort he experienced playing with broken ribs, an injury sustained running into the fence in Colorado on July 29.

The elbow injury eliminates any possibility of moving Werth back behind the plate, where he began his career as a first-round draft pick of the Baltimore Orioles. But neither management nor Werth has considered that an attractive possibility anyway.

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