OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -Frank Thomas is recovering from a knee and leg injury back home in Las Vegas, where the Oakland Athletics expect their designated hitter to remain for about another week.
The Big Hurt has a physical therapist he works with in Las Vegas and traveled there when the A’s went to Texas on May 30.
“He’s going to be there a while,” A’s manager Bob Geren said Friday before Oakland opened a weekend series against the AL West rival Los Angeles Angels. “We want to make sure it’s healthy, period.”
Thomas turned 40 on May 27 and was injured that night against his former Toronto team stretching out a double. He has tendinitis above his right knee where it connects to the quadriceps muscle.
game set at Arizona. After that, the A’s have a nine-game homestand against the NL – Florida, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
“We’re just trying to get that thing calmed down and healed before he takes a step backward,” Geren said. “It’s got to be healed before he takes the next step.”
The A’s are eager to get Thomas’ bat back in the middle of the lineup. This is the slugger’s second stint with Oakland, which signed him April 24 after he was released by the Blue Jays four days earlier.
Thomas, in his 19th big league season, has hit four of his seven home runs this season since rejoining the A’s and is batting .258 with 27 RBIs in 44 games this year, 28 of those for Oakland.
He led the A’s to the AL championship series in 2006, batting .270 with a team-leading 39 home runs and 114 RBIs in 137 games.
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