Max Muncy on his progression for opening day Dodgers 2022

I do I say I'm glad you're here though so I can apologize because you asked a lot of questions yeah you asked a lot of questions in the playoffs and I kind of skirted around them so but as you know now it was a torn ligament and I never told you guys it wasn't and I didn't want to tell you it wasn't so I was trying to skirt around those questions so glad you're here so I can apologize to you for that. You know kind of lie about an injury or or not lie but just not want to make sure yeah I wanted to make sure I wasn't lying so I was trying to skirt around those questions a little bit and you kept coming after me so we had to do what I could to get around it so. So with that torn ligament what did it just look like for rehab what was that time like and when did you realize you had reached really a turning point and feeling really better and moving in the right direction? I'm not sure you know it was kind of you know we knew the day it happened it was torn and so we had to keep it immobilized for several weeks we had the brace on it and then after that it was kind of just breaking up the scar tissue that was in there and going from there and you know it took a while I didn't start swinging until about mid-January and even then it was still you know really stiff and really I don't know if painful is the word but it didn't didn't feel right and you know we're still we're still there right now but we're able to get through some swings we're able to get closer to normal we're definitely not there but you know it's one of those injuries that may not be back to normal until next year who knows but we're feeling good right now. I know you've mentioned that and you think opening day you'll be ready Dave Roberts said that as well did this extra time was that a benefit for you? Yes and no you know it's one of the things where any time you can get extra rest is always great but at the same time because we were locked out I couldn't I couldn't work with our guys work with our trainers they knew exactly what I needed and you know I wasn't able to talk to them so that was a little frustrating and you know I still got good treatment you know that's not saying that but it's just one of those things where you benefit working with guys that know you and know how you work and everything like that so it's just but the extra rest always helps there's no doubt about that so it's a yes and no As far as like did you have to use some of your trainers to be like an intermediary report back to the Dodgers stuff like that or because obviously the lockouts like you mentioned you can talk to them directly? Yeah I'm not I'm not sure I had a guy I went to for PT asked for where what he was getting or what he was doing I don't know and it's best that I didn't know and it's probably best that no one knows but hey who knows you know it's just one of those things where the lockout had weird rules to it and you know everyone was trying to follow the rules and trying to no one was trying to cause any problems so but yeah well whatever the whatever my PT was doing you know it feels good now still still a little bit to go but yeah I think we're I think we're ready for opening day Estimated yesterday that you're at 85 percent you want to change that number up or down? Well today's my first day on the field so all I've been doing is swinging in a cage and 85 would probably be a good estimate because you can never really get full adrenaline in the cage so you know I can feel like I'm swinging as hard as I can but when you're in a cage it's it's really only so much effort in there so today being out on the field maybe a little higher I'd say you know we're definitely not 100% and like I said we may not be at 100% for a while but it felt good you know first day seeing a ball moving is always a little weird but hey we're making progress.