Before Philadelphia Phillies manager Joe Girardi and assistant athletic trainer Shawn Fcasni could carry him back to the dugout at Tropicana Field last May, Roman Quinn knew that he had torn his left Achilles, and that his 2021 season would be over.
Even the uber-positive Quinn wondered whether the latest in a pretty lengthy line of injuries might be a career-ender.
“The recovery is going really well. It’s going a lot better than I expected it to go,” Quinn told Phillies Nation in a phone interview Monday. “I remember when the injury happened, the first thought that came into my head was like ‘Man, I might be done.