The Philadelphia Daily News reports Phillies slugger Ryan Howard said he played the 2012 season essentially on one leg because he hadn't redeveloped the muscles in his left leg after his Achilles was operated on in October 2011. Howard said those muscles are back and the mental block associated with traumatic injuries is also no longer an issue. "It's one of those things where you just weren't 100 percent confident in it," he said. "You can't do all the things that you would normally do. Sometimes you might try to make a cut or do something that you would normally do and you might feel something. Yeah, there's always going to be that little bit of fear in that back of your mind that you might rupture it again or what not, but now it's not even a second thought in my mind."
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