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Terrible that he’s had to endure all of that. Pulling hard for him to recover fully and pick up where he left off.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Stone Garrett was taking fly balls with the rest of the Nationals’ outfielders earlier this week when one of the coaches sent a deep drive over his head. It was the first time he was forced to go back toward the wall to make a play this spring, the first time he engaged in such an activity since that awful August night at Yankee Stadium when he suffered a gruesome injury.Garrett, though, never thought about any of that. He simply tracked down the ball, made the play and re-took his position, only realizing afterward the significance of the moment.“It’s kind of like instinct,” he said. “It was weird, we were doing fly balls and one just shot off. … You just go get it, don’t think about the leg or anything. So it’s been pretty nice. No pain. No nothing, really.”Garrett always knew he’d make a full physical recovery from the broken left fibula and damaged ankle he suffered trying to make a leaping grab at the wall in New York late last summer. The real test, though, was going to be mental. When the time came to make a tough baseball play, would he hesitate at all, or would instincts take over?When those instincts indeed took over, Garrett breathed a sigh of relief.“I’m still doing it,” he said with pride. “Like, yeah, I can still do this. So it definitely was a sigh of relief.”
“I just want to make sure that he’s 100 percent before we get him out there and really start fully going,” manager Dave Martinez said. “But he looks good. Look, he worked diligently all winter long to get himself ready. I think he’s in a good spot. I think as of right now, he could be ready for Opening Day, and that’s the way we’re looking at it.”
https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/stone-garrett-discusses-recovery-from-left-leg-injuryIF that means in the field on opening day, then I'd be
Hopefully DH / PH against LHP at a minimum (though he doesn't have big splits)
“We’re definitely keeping on eye on him and progressing him, and he’s progressing quite well, but like I said, he’s still got to check some boxes for us. But he’s out there, and he’s going through a lot of different things. We’re trying to limit his baserunning still, right now, so he’s not participating in the baserunning, because he’s emulating other things to do the baserunning stuff. But he’s swinging the bat, he’s doing the live BPs, he’s doing everything that we feel like he’s ready for.”...“We’re probably going to ease his way in. Like I said, once the minor leaguers come in and those guys get ready and they start, we can get [Garrett] as many at-bats as we need. We can do a lot of different things. So, right now, I’m looking at what he did today, and he looked good, he’s progressing, I saw him do his outfield work and he looked really good, but as far as getting him in a game, we’ll see how he does in the next few days.“It’s going to be a while before I really feel comfortable putting him in a game, but we’re definitely progressing in the right direction.”
Stone starts a rehab assignment at Harrisburg the next time they play (he was supposed to play tonight per Zuck).
He played in left last night. If they replace rosario with him our backup CFs would be Vargas, Thomas, and Gallo.
which is fine, especially after Robles is back.
bringing Robles back means demoting or dfa’ng someone else.
Moved up to Rochester
Went 0-5 in his debut as a DH
Garret has a career 123 ops+ in 355 PA over the last 2 seasons. Good EVs too. He'll come back and LF/DH with Winker. Gallo needs to go. No place for him in a rebuild. I'd rather roll with meneses at first as he has cheap team control left. Have winker and stone as LF/DH however you'd like it. A top 6 in the lineup of:AbramsThomasWinkerGarrettGarciaMeneses That's pretty good all things considered. good l-r-l-r-l-r
Rosario is worse than anyone in baseball
