DR HQ: Superstar injury update

Can Troy Tulowitzki avoid the DL in 2013?

Sometimes players get a label that isn't deserved, such as "injury-prone." Is that the case with Troy Tulowitzki’s (SS, COL)?

Tulowitzki returned from an injured groin in early June, only to undergo surgery later that month to have scar tissue cleaned up that was causing him discomfort. Those adhesions (a fancy medical word for scar tissue) were addressed during the surgery, and though he should have been able to return at some point in the second half of the season, he didn’t. Early reports from the Rockies camp in Peoria, Arizona indicate he is moving well laterally—a big problem last season—and looks in very good shape. By the time March spring training games roll around he should be...

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