"Jimmy Rollins had some advice for Derek Jeter on Tuesday, one shortstop to another, one calf-strain victim to another.

One year after calf issues tormented Rollins for virtually the entire 2010 season, he told ESPN.com: "The best advice I can give Derek is, 'You're going to get healed in the offseason.' "

"I don't even think about my calf injury anymore," Rollins says now, 14 months after he suffered a Grade 2 strain of his calf while running simple wind sprints before a game last April. "But all last year? That was No. 1 -- before anything, before I stretched, before I hit, before I looked at who was pitching. It was, 'How's my calf?' "

Rollins strained his right calf muscle before the Philadelphia Phillies' 2010 home opener in April, sat out 35 days, came back in May, strained the calf muscle again three days later and then missed another month. It wasn't until November and December, when he was able to allow the injury to heal fully, he said, that the discomfort went away.

Rollins conceded that because his injury was a Grade 2 strain -- slightly more serious than Jeter's Grade 1 sprain -- "he's in better shape than I was."

Nevertheless, Rollins said the one thing his calf-injury nightmare taught him was that with calf injuries, the more cautious you are, the better.

"When you think you're good, you're not even close," he said. "Still take more time. ... No matter what your mind thinks, your muscles don't speak English.""