Joe Mauer, aka The Baby Jesus, is going to have an MR … wait, an MRA? Is that right? In any event, it’s a magnetic resonance arthrogram in hopes of finding out why his back still hurts. (Our guess: He gave one too many piggy-back rides to Jose Mijares). Here is the bad news from La Velle:

The decision was made after Mauer met with the Twins medical staff, including head physician Dr. John Steubs. The Twins and Mauer believed the he would be close to getting back on the field by now but Mauer recently stopped doing on-field activities because of the discomfort.

When asked early Monday morning if he was getting antsy to get on the field, he said. “I have moved well past that.”

Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said the club needs answers.

“We have to figure out what’s going on so we can get him better and get him on the field.” Gardenhire said. “This is another effort to try to figure out where we are at and what we need to do. He’s not on the field yet. He’s not able to consistently go out and do anything.

“Concerned? Yeah.”

Yeesh. It’s early, and that’s precautionary, but that still doesn’t sound like much fun for the Twins — or their fans.

We’ll be back tomorrow with some COW love from AZGopherGirl. We can only guess what it might contain.

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