Back Surgery Will Knock Freddy Sanchez Out Until 2013

The next year, he proved it wasn’t a complete fluke by batting .304.

Since then, things haven’t gone so well.

And rehab he did, for a couple months. But it was acknowledged on Sunday that Sanchez would probably need surgery, and now on Monday, word’s out that surgery is happening. Amy Gutierrez:

The rehab just didn’t go the way that Sanchez and the organization hoped, and so it was decided it would be better to get this taken care of now so that Sanchez can work his way back well in advance of spring training. It just wasn’t worth trying any longer.

As he came off the field, Sanchez could be seen mouthing the words, “It’s my shoulder.”

And after the game, the news was both expected and lousy: Sanchez suffered a dislocated right shoulder, and while we don’t yet know the severity of the injury -- tendons, ligaments, electronic circuitry, that sort of thing -- he’s certain to land on the DL and perhaps for quite a while.