The two big takeaways from today’s pregame chat with Ryan Zimmerman: Zim could be back in the Washington Nationals’ lineup as soon as next Friday night, after getting some rehab starts during the All-Star Break, and he has no idea where those calf injury rumors originated.
Fancred’s Jon Heyman stirred the nation’s capital up on Thursday afternoon with a long-ish paragraph in his baseball notes column in which he wrote that Washington’s 33-year-old first baseman, “... appears ready to start a rehab assignment soon for his calf and oblique injuries.”
Calf and oblique?
We all knew about the oblique.