Ike Davis had an oblique injury last season that, apparently, no one knew about

There’s a story in the New York Post today in which Ike Davis is quoted as saying that last season, just around the time he was sent down to Triple-A Las Vegas, he was suffering from an oblique injury that he felt required a stint on the DL. When he found out he was being demoted, however, he kept the injury to himself because he didn’t want it to appear as though he was trying to avoid the demotion due to an invented or over-sold injury:

“I thought about saying, ‘Hey, I would like to take a couple of weeks off, because I’m not feeling great,’ ” Davis said. “But then the timing was bad and it was when I was getting sent down. It would have been a great time, but it looks bad and I just can’t say that.”

OK, makes sense. Except this morning Davis is angry at the story:

Ike Davis disputes accuracy of report -- says oblique was tight for few months but never was making excuse. “Everyone has injuries.”

— Adam Rubin (@AdamRubinESPN) February 24, 2014

“I sucked because I sucked.” -- Ike Davis #mets

— Adam Rubin (@AdamRubinESPN) February 24, 2014

Ike Davis livid at a NY Post story suggesting he played hurt most of last season. Says oblique injury did not affect his performance at all.

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) February 24, 2014

Mike Puma wrote the Post report. He may work for the Post, but he’s generally an accurate reporter who doesn’t get all New York Posty about most things. My guess: the upshot is correct: Davis had an injury he kept to himself and, yesterday, did offer it up as a partial explanation for his bad 2013. Then Davis didn’t like how what he said yesterday looked in print today and is doing some damage control lest anyone think he was making excuses.

Today everyone will probably talk about Ike Davis and his reaction. But the bigger and more interesting thing here is that, based on the Post report, Terry Collins was unaware of the injury until he was asked about Davis’ comments yesterday. And no matter what Davis is saying now about how it all went down, it does appear that he was injured and the Mets coaches and training staff didn’t know about it.

Mets fans: you cool with that? Because that seems kind of problematic.