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Workout to determine if Mets’ Davis will have ankle surgery

Ike Davis might be a September call up of sorts for the Mets.

Though the injured first baseman is done for the season, it appears likely he will receive an audition during pregame drills next week in Miami to determine if he can avoid surgery on his left ankle.

Davis spent most of August in shutdown mode but resumed running last week. The next step would involve putting Davis on the field to take batting practice and grounders. Davis had set Labor Day as a cutoff to reach a decision on his course of treatment, but that was a soft deadline, according to assistant general manager John Ricco.

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“No decisions have been reached,” Ricco said, adding that Davis has felt good recently. “That’s why we’re kind of looking ahead to see what are the next few steps, but looking ahead to that Labor Day deadline, that wasn’t a drop-dead date. The fact we’re going to be down there [for three games] just seems to work.”

Davis, who sustained the bone bruise in his ankle upon colliding with David Wright on a pop up on May 11 at Colorado, faces a dilemma. He can undergo surgery in the coming weeks — likely microfracture, but possibly a procedure less invasive — and take the risk that the ankle will be less than 100 percent afterward. If he forgoes the operation, there is the risk of a setback and the need for surgery later in the year, which would keep him sidelined for the start of 2012.

The weather vane is pointing toward no surgery — for now, at least.

“He’s done very well,” manager Terry Collins said before the Mets faced the Marlins last night at Citi Field. “He’s run the last couple of days with no discomfort, and I think everybody is onboard to have him do some baseball related stuff — taking BP and some grounders, and not get carried away and see how that is.”

Collins was asked if the fact Davis is slated to resume baseball activities is a clear indication he will avoid the surgery.

“I asked the trainers, and they said the next step is to see if he resumes some baseball stuff how [the ankle] is going to react,” Collins said.

When the Mets played at Arizona last month, Davis said he was just looking forward to closure on the matter, to end the guessing game. In the week before the All-Star break the Mets were receiving excellent reports on Davis’ ankle and remained hopeful he would return by late July. But that became unrealistic when the soreness returned after the All-Star break.

The Mets can only dream about how the season might have been different with a healthy Davis for the entire season. He was the team’s MVP for the first 36 games of the season, hitting .302 with seven homers and 25 RBIs in 129 at-bats.

A cascade of Mets setbacks followed Davis’ injury. That included Wright missing two months with a stress fracture in his lower back and Jose Reyes needing two trips to the disabled list for a strained left hamstring.

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