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Limits a distant memory for productive Yadi
- Updated: May 16, 2016
LOS ANGELES — It was only three months ago that the Cardinals opened Spring Training still uncertain of whether Yadier Molina would be ready by season’s start. His thumb was still recovering from two offseason surgeries, and he was still several checkpoints away from being cleared to swing.
Those concerns seem so distant now that manager Mike Matheny, after the Cardinals’ 5-2 win over the Dodgers on Sunday night, acknowledged that he actually “forgot about that.” Credit Molina with causing the short-term memory glitch.
Almost a quarter of the way through the season, Molina looks like he’s on his way to his best offensive season since 2013, when he finished third in the voting for National League Most Valuable Player. That year, he hit a career-best 44 doubles. With his 12th on Sunday, he’s on pace this year for 51. His .333 batting average ranks seventh in the NL, and he’s driven in 16.
The quick recovery has surprised even Molina, who admitted that he, too, assumed he was going to enter the season compromised after needing surgeries on his thumb in October and December.
“I …
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