"You need a world atlas these days to keep up with Alex Rodriguez's medical team, now that he has added a doctor from Germany to the roster that already stretched from Miami to Toronto to Colorado, in addition to New York. How long before he looks up the guy who performed a miracle on Bartolo Colon's career a year ago?

OK, maybe A-Rod isn't quite that desperate just yet, but the news of his visit to Germany is surely another indication that he is fearful of the way his body has been betraying him in recent years, and in need of more than a winter of rest and rehab exercises."