MRI Shows A Grade 1 Quad Strain For A-Rod

Alex Rodriguez will no longer be joining the Yankees in Texas this week after an MRI Sunday afternoon revealed a Grade 1 quad strain in the rehabbing slugger.

A-Rod was scheduled to join the Yankees when they play the Texas Rangers this week, but they've announced that he won't, instead he'll head to Tampa for rest and treatment.

Sunday was initially the final day of Rodriguez's 20-day rehab stint. The Yankees will keep him on the disabled list, but because the 20-day window is over he will be unable to play in minor league games.

The team will be able to ask Major League Baseball for an additional rehab assignment, claiming that he has suffered a new injury.

Quad strains are not an injury that the Yankee are unfamiliar with, with Derek Jeter going through the same injury. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that Jeter hasn't started running yet and isn't sure whether he'll be ready to play once he can come off the DL on Saturday.

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