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Article: Shortstop Barmes to play in Double-A next week
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 17, 2005
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DENVER - Clint Barmes, the Rockies shortstop who was a leading
candidate for the National League's Rookie of the Year honors until
he fractured his left clavicle on June 5, will return to baseball
sometime next week in a rehabilitation stint with the Double-A Tulsa
Drillers.
The date has not been determined, although it likely will occur
while the Rockies are on a nine-game road trip that begins Monday.
Barmes, who says his recovery process is ahead of schedule, is
hoping to return to the Rockies on Sept. 2 when they host the Los
Angeles Dodgers at Coors Field.
"It's painful just sitting and watching, especially if I know I'm
healthy," Barmes said before the Rockies-Brewers game Tuesday. ...