Phoenix – On June 8 last year, during EvadingVery expected Mid -season series At Yanki Stadium, Will Smith He ran hard to try to overcome a throw. When it approached the second rule, it slipped, the left foot extends. Immediately after he hit the base in which he bent out of pain, after his ankle was united embarrassed as he was confusing on the bag.
This was not exposed publicly, but Smith suffered from a bone bruise that led to ankle pain for the rest of the season and continued to be annoyed until training in the spring.
Smith said: “I have been stuck throughout the year, and they have not improved in external seasons,” Smith said.
Chalk as something else went to the escalating mask last year.
In the painting, published its lowest professional levels in the average multiplication (. Against four balls.
Smith was breastfeeding an ankle injury, the second season in a row was less than 100 % and ended with OPS under 800. In 2023, he suffered from an early ribs injury that continued to plague in the rest of the season.
Smith’s ankle injury did not appear until the start of the camp, when the manager was Dave Roberts She announced that 29-year-old Backstop-intervened season 2 10 years, extending 140 million dollars Last March – he will miss the start of the Cactus League to give additional comfort in his ankle.
“I don’t think it is something that will disappear any time soon,” said Roberts. “It is just a kind of what it is.”
Smith appeared for the first time in the spring Friday night and said that an ankle was 100 % felt when he went 0 to 3 and spent five roles behind the plate in The winners of the angels win. Less than three weeks after the journey to open the season to Japan, there is no concern about losing the start of the season.
But while Smith and the team try to find out the reasons behind the decrease in production and create a game of performance to wear, the ankle is something that will have to continue management.
“You can do all kinds of treatment and everything,” Smith said. “But the only thing that heals really is comfort.”
He said that his ankle was exactly disturbed by this long and unclear – “We are looking at the reason not to move away from it,” but Roberts confirmed that the surgery was never an option.
“It is a deep bone bruise, clearly,” said Roberts. “Four months did not help the pain to get away.”
Smith nor Roberts could not say how much it influenced the conflicts last year in the painting.
Smith said: “There may be little.” “But she really didn’t hurt the swing. Maybe I could compensate. I don’t know. But running was the only thing that really affected him.”
Roberts showed a slightly different perspective, saying he “believed the foot was a kind of disability.”
“It will never be used as an excuse,” Roberts said. “But I think this is definitely playing a role.”
Good news: Smith said that his swing is in a better place than him during the second half of last year, which enhances him for changes in mechanics; Mostly, stay more inside the ball to create a “Lady Room for Work”.
“There is definitely some mechanical things that I was doing last year and that I need to clean,” Smith said. “So I all worked on them out of the season. A good feeling. A swing feels like a good place.”
Roberts hopes that the ankle will be less obstacle, as the club’s concession banker, who is still considered one of the best strikers in his position, is able to play at a high level again.
“It is one of those things that he will have to deal with,” said Roberts. “But I now think it is really good.”
