Mets GM: Yoenis Cespedes playing golf on a bum quad ‘is bad optics’
New York Mets Manager Terry Collins might not care what people think about slugger Yoenis Cespedes playing golf on a bad quad, but General Manager Sandy Alderson does.
“The golf is bad optics,” Alderson said Thursday.
Cespedes had been trying to avoid going on the disabled list since injuring his right quadriceps on July 8, playing in only 14 games since then. But that didn’t stop him from playing golf with former MLB player Kevin Millar on Wednesday.
That night, Cespedes re-aggravated his injury during an at-bat and was finally put on the 15-day DL. The next day, Collins grew agitated when a reporter suggested the public might perceive a relationship between Cespedes’ golf outing during the day and his injury that night.
“Golfing had nothing to do with his leg,” Collins said. “I don't care about perception. I deal with reality.”
Actually, Alderson might be the one dealing with reality here.
“Our doctors have told us that [golf] probably had no impact on the injury — positive or negative,” he said. “But let’s face it: You play golf during the day and then go out injured in the evening, it’s a bad visual. I think he recognizes that at this point. So we’ll go from there.”
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