His hand is still hurting him and now his wrist is sore too. He's still dealing with fighting the bad habits he picked up since his injury.
"The issue isn’t just the pain Bogaerts is dealing with; the issue is how the pain has altered his mechanics.
“I started creating a lot of bad habits, and some of them have stuck still with me,” Bogaerts said. “I changed [my swing], and I can’t find it back. That’s the trouble swinging the way I used to swing: it would hurt a lot. So I started creating bad habits, and that’s where I am right now — bad.”
“This is the first time I’ve ever dealt with pain like that,” Bogaerts said Wednesday at Rogers Centre. “Lower half wouldn’t be an issue. But something with your hands wouldn’t be a small thing. That affects a lot of stuff.
“We’re in first place. You want to play, you want to help the team out. Sometimes you feel like you don’t do it. You’re fighting, you’re grinding.”
Bogaerts is still fighting through pain in that hand, which has been exacerbated by soreness in his right wrist over the last two weeks. He’s unsure of why that started — whether there was some impact that caused it or whether changes to his swing led to soreness elsewhere.
The shortstop said it was frustrating to deal with another injury just as he seemed to be overcoming the initial one."
Great. His hand is getting worse, he has a new wrist injury, and yet he is still playing, to "help the team."
He needs to go on the DL after this series in NY, if not before. Marrero and Lin will be active tomorrow, we should be covered at SS.