V-Mart shows everyone comes back from injury at their own pace

In January 2012 Victor Martinez tore his acl in his left knee, a devastating injury that according to Victor Khabie, chief of sports medicine at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.,  the timetable from surgery to a return to baseball is usually around nine months. People in the Tiger's organization were optimistic that they could have V-Mart back for a possible playoff push that September, but V-Mart had a different timetable. He was not able to return until the Spring of '13, over a full year after surgically repairing his knee and for the first half of the season he was a shell of his past. By the end of June his batting avg. was hovering around .230, well below the +.300 career avg. we were used to seeing from him. But then all of the sudden he started to figure things out, more so he started to feel comfortable again. 17 months it took him to get back to his elite level, well past the 9 months Khabie said it would take and even past the year prediction then teammate Carlos Gullien, who went through the same injury twice, had said. What this tells me is that every player is different, every indivdual has their own unique challanges and their own timetable. So when you hear someone say "he'll be out for 9 months" you have to wonder if they can make it back in that time and if they do will they be close to or even 100%. As for V-Mart there is no doubt he is 100% healthly as his now 12 homeruns and his sterling .333 avg. have shown. It just took a little longer than the Tigers had hoped, but at least he's got it going now.