Vizquel out with knee surgery.

February 26, 2008 · Paul Raymond · Jump to comments

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San Francisco Giants are going to be with out their Gold Glove shortstop Omar Vizquel for 4 to 5 weeks. The 40 year old, Vizquel will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Wednesday and then start rehab. Omar started to experience some soreness in the knee last week but thought nothing of it and thought it was no big deal. Today while testing his knee out thou he felt a pop and thought OK its time to get this taken care of. “My knee was feeling good,” Vizquel said. “I wanted to give it a hard shot in order to make a decision. It didn’t work. I felt a little pop when I was running. That’s what I wanted to see—to see if I could sustain the pain, and I couldn’t.” The injury is being officially diagnosed as torn medical meniscus.

During Vizquel’s absence, Kevn Frandsen will be covering the position. Frandsen was originally to battle Ray Duham for the starting job at second base. This may hurt him some in that race, but it will at least give him more at-bats during the first few weeks of the season and all of camp to show if he can handle a starting role. That should be enough to keep him on the major league roster come regular season thou.

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