Phillies’ Trea Turner gets murky yet optimistic injury return update

The Philadelphia Phillies are dealing with the absence of shortstop Trea Turner due to a hamstring injury a little bit under two weeks ago, but he reportedly went through agility drills and took ground balls on Wednesday, according to Matt Gelb of The Athletic.

“There is no timeline,” Rob Thompson said, via Gelb.

While there is no timeline given by Phillies manager Rob Thompson, Gelb indicates that Trea Turner does not look like a player who will miss another four weeks. When he initially hurt his hamstring back on May 5 against the San Francisco Giants, it was reported that he would miss at least six weeks. With it being just under two weeks since the injury and given the six-week timeline, it is interesting that he went through agility drills so soon.

Generally with hamstrings, they can be tricky when it comes to recovery. It can be easy to tweak or aggravate the injury again, even if it might feel fine, so the Phillies would not have been ok with Turner doing drills if they were not confident that he would be able to make it through without making the injury worse.

For that reason, it will be worth monitoring Turner’s activity in the next week or so to see if he will be able to ramp up even more. If he is able to do so, it would not be a surprise to see him make a potential return earlier than the initial six-week timeline.

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