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Manny Machado expected to have surgery on knee within a week.

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I am not a MD but I think that if he plays with the one weakened it could increase the risk to the other ligaments. Blowing out the whole knee would result in him missing more then the first month of the regular season.

Probably true. I just know several of the doctors though he could play last year without the surgery.

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People passing judgment on Manny's decision are being extremely presumptuous, IMO. I feel like their "logic" is something like: Manny's doctor hangs out with celebrities like Stallone who has bad plastic surgery, so the doctor is a scum bag, and any advice from him has to be questioned. :rolleyestf: From what I understand Manny's injuries stem from a structural anomaly. I don't know if the ligament tear this season is a similar ligament to the one involved with last year's. But Last year it was generally felt that they dodged a bullet Who is to say the structural anomaly couldn't cause other kinds of damage, ACL, MCL, whatever, not just a rupture of this particular ligament, that might be career ending. It was certainly felt to be a possibility last season. In short with out complete medical information, which no one has, no one is in a position to make any judgment about his decision.

I would like Manny to play of the Orioles would like him to. I have no medical information, nor do I want to have any.

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You have certainly intimated that Orioles doctors believe he can rehab and play this season and postseason. Is that true or not true?

Nope. I said that the doctors were ok with watchful waiting and Neal ElAttrache wasn't.

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You have certainly intimated that Orioles doctors believe he can rehab and play this season and postseason. Is that true or not true?

I know that several of the doctors last year were ok with a healthy attempt to rehab the knee and Manny chose otherwise.

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Why else would you watch and wait unless you thought it possible that he could return this season? Either the Oriole doctors felt he could return this season or not? Which is it, Mr. Evasive.

I'm not sure they would know. Without waiting more. I think they thought he could see some improvement. Yes.

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