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Duffy: Dealing with Achilles is ‘learning process’
- Updated: August 30, 2016
BOSTON — Monitoring the condition of Matt Duffy’s Achilles will be a day-to-day thing for the Rays for the remainder of the season.
Rays manager Kevin Cash has tried to give the team’s new shortstop a day off about every fifth day just to make sure that his left Achilles remains healthy going into the offseason.
Duffy came to the Rays in the non-waiver Trade Deadline deal that sent Matt Moore to the Giants. Duffy was on the disabled list at the time with a strained left Achilles.
“We’re kind of all learning with it, understanding what it can take,” Duffy said. “It seems to be one extra day if we’re on the road. If we’re at home [on the artificial surface], the inflammation creeps in a little quick. But I think everybody is doing a pretty good job with it. It’s just me being honest about what I feel and not being too stubborn feeling that I can play through everything.”
Duffy said there are “different types of soreness and pain.”
“I think just being post-injury like it is, I have to be a little more careful …
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