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A DL Trip Might Be the Best Thing for Mark Teixeira

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While answering questions from reporters Thursday, Tex was visibly uncomfortable and with little range of motion in his neck. He told Laura Albanese of Newsday, “I never got 100 percent, but it was feeling pretty good and it just kind of flared up a little bit on me,I just can’t move it and it’s painful. There’s no other way to describe it, really.”

This lingering issue has almost certainly played a role in Teixeira’s struggles this month. He has a .