If it's the off-season...

it must be time for this lede. The subject of the story is Rob Johnson ('05).

If it's a Tuesday in the offseason, then Seattle Mariners catcher Rob Johnson is probably in a surgical suite having another repair done on a body that was battered during the 2009 season.

Two Tuesdays ago in Colorado, it was a labrum repair on Johnson's left hip. Before that, a similar surgery on his right hip.

This Tuesday in Seattle, he'll have an operation on his ailing left wrist.

“Three surgeries in a month. I might hold an organizational record,” Johnson said.

That may not be the end. He had a magnetic resonance imaging exam Friday on his right (throwing) elbow, hoping to learn the reason for bouts of soreness during the season. Johnson doesn't believe he'll need surgery on the elbow.

Well, that's good news. Read up on the former Rattler.