Why Justin Verlander of the Mets is being careful with his "lingering" injury

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The third game of the season on Saturday against the Marlins was when Justin Verlander was supposed to make his Mets debut.

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none of those will take place as the veteran was placed on the injured list with a low grade teres major strain. Instead he will start the team's home opener on April 6.

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That was something that was lingering but it's spring training you know I guess thinking back."

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"I didn't really give it much attention; I just sort of assumed it was something I was going through because it's quite common to kind of have to work through some issues" Verlander said.

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"I was able to go out and throw through that in my last start so I felt like I had overcome that obstacle" the pitcher said.

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Then yesterday I still faintly felt something in my bullpen.

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The location of teres major and lat concerned Verlander since they are so close to one another.

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To be quite honest after speaking with a few physicians I realized that this wasn't the best case scenario.

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The ideal outcome would have been "Hey there's nothing there; you're simply hurting.

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Yet I believe that this is only the second-best scenario. You understand very very little.

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The thing that worried me the most personally was that it wouldn't be the last.

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similar region and the muscles sort of cooperate. That is why I had that thought.

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According to how he feels while throwing and sort of putting everything together Verlander continued "I don't anticipate it being long."

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The 40-year-old continued by stating that his throwing routine will involve "light catch" and that he wanted to avoid taking more than two days off in a row.

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The doctor noted that my shoulder "looks like that of a 20-year-old" he even jokingly said.

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Verlander remarked "That hurts terrible especially personally." "You know that's definitely not how I intended my time with the Mets to begin.

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I worked really hard to prevent situations like these as I have mentioned.

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