Will Smith of Dodgers provides a disturbing update on the status of playoffs

Even baseball players sometimes need a second medical opinion.

The intuition of the receiver of the Dodgers Will Smith was more precise than some of the doctors who interpreted his initial MRI and evaluated his injury in hand. What was initially judged bone bruises later turned out to be a hair fracture at the base of the third metacarpal on the right hand of the recipient.

“I could say that it was a little more than bruises. They assured me that it was (only a bone bruise),” Smith told journalists. “So you are a little” okay, I guess it faces it. “Then it turns out that I am not crazy and it was more.

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Smith was injured by hand on a tip three weeks ago and works to return behind marble for the imminent playoffs.

Smith did not swing a bat or a ball, and it seems unlikely that the All-Star 2025 is ready for the playoffs. According to the Cleveland Clinic, metacarpal fractures need immobilization for three to six weeks and that most people need a month or two to recover from a metacarpal fracture.

“I hope that,” he said. “I do everything I can to be ready.”

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According to Bill Plunkett reports from Orange County Register, Smith ran on the ground, doing rotation exercises to simulate the swings, catcing of the arenas without rejecting and following the locations. When he returns to baseball activities, he suspects that it will be a “kind of pain tolerance”.

“At one point, I will certainly get lives (at-bats), not in games,” said Smith. “But it’s the moment of the pancake. I have to go. Each time I am ready, I will be back in there.”

Dodgers could certainly use their All-Star safety net as soon as possible. Smith struck. 296 with 17 circuits and a .901 OPS before his injury. In addition, the Dodgers enclosure has been in difficulty recently, and perhaps by adding a familiar backstop instead of the recruiter Dalton Rushing and Trade Deadline Acquisition Ben Rortvedt could help the enclosure of the Lights.

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