Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Russell Branyan Fights To Prove His Back Is Healthy

The big truck tires are propped up against a wall in the Vanderbilt University weight room. Russell Branyan pounds them with sledgehammers, the way a lumberjack chops wood.

“It’s a difficult exercise,” Vanderbilt baseball coach Tim Corbin says. “He couldn’t do it if he had the back injury that people say he has.”

That is the rap against Branyan in free agency — that he is still hampered by a back problem that sidelined him with the Mariners for a month late last season.

Fox Sports

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