With Curtis Granderson a good bet to be activated off the disabled list as early as tonight, the thought occurred to me: The Yankees’ injury epidemic has been so extreme that they have added plenty of people to the disabled list during the course of this season, but they hadn’t taken anyone off the DL.

Which brought to mind Mr. Big’s line from this episode of “Sex and the City”:

“The thing is, she could reach me. But I could never reach her.”

Anyway, this thought prompted me to reach out to the invaluable Michael Teevan of Major League Baseball, who dug through some data. Mike reminded me that my original hypothesis was wrong: The Yankees did activate someone off the DL – Phil Hughes back in the first week of the season. Meanwhile, there is one club remaining that has yet to bring a player off the DL – Kansas City, which has put only two players (Danny Duffy and Felipe Paulino) there.

The Yankees have placed 12 players on the DL, ranking them a close third in MLB behind the Dodgers and Miami (12 each). Through last Thursday, their 306 DL days placed them second behind the Marlins’ 347.

Also through last Thursday, the MLB averages for all 30 clubs were 6.8 DL stints and 182.2 days lost.

— I was speaking yesterday with a scout who mentioned that Ike Davis reminded him of his Washington counterpart Adam LaRoche, because LaRoche, like Davis, tends to put up better numbers in the second half.

So I lined up the numbers. Here are the players’ career OPS by month, starting with March/April and going through September/October:

LaRoche: .695, .768, .771, .864, .911, .887. Career: .814.

Davis: .754, .637, .813, .770, .796, .927. Career: .777.

Yup, you can see the similarities. Of course, what you don’t want is for a player to simply accept such data and say, “I guess I’m a second-half player.” Especially when the Mets’ 2013 second half is looming as even more irrelevant as their 2012 second half.

–Have a great day.