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Surgery to sideline Perez for season

Eyebrows no longer arch when the Mets place a player on the disabled list, nor when they announce that one of those players is out for the year. These days, a trip to the doctor usually precedes something worse, as it has for Johan Santana and Carlos Delgado and now, among a dozen or so others, for Oliver Perez.


The Mets on Wednesday placed Perez on the disabled list with “patellar tendon tendinosis” in his right knee, a condition that a team spokesman described as chronic tendinitis. Under the recommendation of Mets medical director Dr. David Altchek, Perez will undergo surgery to correct the condition and will miss the remainder of the season.

Click here to read the full article – By Anthony DiComo of MLB.com


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August 27, 2009 Posted by GameSetMatch | MLB, NY Mets News, New York Mets | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

   

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