Rendon's Angels entered this season with the same weight on their shoulders as they have for years now.
because he underwent two ankle surgeries in two years. At various times in his Nationals tenure, Rendon battled a sprained medial collateral ligament, pulled muscles and other slow-to-heal leg injuries. And as early as the 2019 World Series, Rendon was trying a variety of strategies to activate muscles around a wonky hip that never seemed to afford him the range of motion he thought it should.
He underwent MRI exams, CT scans and X-rays. He saw specialists in Colorado, New York City and Texas — five total. Eventually, he learned that what doctor after doctor had dismissed as usual wear and tear was a torn labrum, required five anchors in his hip and shaving of multiple bones that had been rubbing in the area. The injections and corrective movements and the rest hadn’t helped because the problem was too big for Band-Aids.
Rendon hadn’t been able to squat in the weight room since his Nationals days, just couldn’t get the hip to do what it was supposed to. He had been on a maintenance program for his glutes since 2016, never quite certain why he needed so much band work when teammates didn’t.“All the doctors told me the same thing: When you have a hip issue, everything around it shuts down. The quad will go, the hamstring will go, the glutes won’t work, your back will be too tight,” Rendon said.
This spring, Rendon has been squatting. He’s learning to hit with his legs again after at least two seasons — more, if he’s being honest — of not realizing just how much he was missing. Now, he says, his swing feels like it flows.
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