Utley Possibly Out Until June

Hey, so here’s a good way to start the next Phillies season: Chase Utley is out ’til June.

The team announced Thursday that second baseman Chase Utley will need right hip surgery that potentially could keep him out until the first week of June.

Utley consistently downplayed speculation about his bad hip during the second half of the postseason. But the Phillies revealed Thursday that since the World Series, he has had the hip evaluated by Phillies team physician Michael Ciccotti, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s Rothman Institute, and by Dr. Bryan Kelly, of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

Both doctors recommended that Utley undergo surgery on his right hip. That procedure, described by the club as an “arthroscopic evaluation with treatment of any labral or bony injury,” will take place next week.

Ooh, I am so mad at Jefferson for telling Utley to have surgery without thinking of the Phillies first! Or maybe this will make into a superplayer when he comes back, an adult Rookie of the Year if you will.