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Doctor says Griffey now in much better shape

By Buster Olney

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Ken Griffey Jr. talked with his doctor about possibly having his left knee fixed midway through last season, but in the end, he decided to try to play through the problem, to play through the weakness. "We shot it and we treated it and we rehabbed it," said Dr. Timothy Kremchek, the team physician for the Cincinnati Reds, "and the last thing in the world he wanted to do was to come out of the lineup and end his year early." But Griffey could not put his full weight on the knee in the way he ha ...

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