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Posada Returns To DL

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The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 22, 2008

NEW YORK - The Yankees placed Jorge Posada on the 15-day disabled list Monday with an injured right shoulder, leaving the All-Star catcher's season in doubt.

Posada was scheduled to see Mets medical director David Altchek on Tuesday to get an MRI and to have his shoulder examined. He missed more than a month earlier this season with right rotator cuff tendinitis, and could opt to have season-ending surgery.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi also said outfielder Hideki Matsui, out with a sore left knee, was examined Monday and decided against surgery.

ATHLETICS: Designated hitter Frank Thomas, sidelined almost two months because of right quadriceps tendinitis, has been cleared to start a running program Friday.

Thomas resumed taking batting practice on the field before Monday night's game against Tampa Bay. He went on the 15-day disabled list on May 29.

"I didn't feel anything," Thomas said. "That's great. I was cutting loose with no problems."

METS: Closer Billy Wagner will have his tight shoulder re-evaluated today to determine if there is an injury to his pitching arm.

The left-hander felt the tightness while warming up Sunday, but struck out three consecutive Cincinnati Reds in the 10th inning to earn his 24th save in New York's 7-5 win.

OBITUARY: Jerome Holtzman, a longtime writer who made the Hall of Fame, created the baseball saves rule and later became Major League Baseball's official historian, died. He was 81.

Holtzman died Saturday in Evanston, Ill.

Known as "The Dean," Holtzman worked at the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Times, its predecessor, before joining the Chicago Tribune in 1981.

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