5/24 07:09: Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle tweets, “Eric Chavez tells me in a text he wants to emphasize he’s NOT retiring. He is going to rehab his neck and continue 2 try to play.”

5/22 13:24: The Associated Press says that Oakland Athletics Eric Chavez is on the disabled list and he acknowledges that his career could be over.

“It might be,” Chavez said Saturday. “I don’t know what the future’s going to hold.”

Chavez was placed on the 15-day disabled list today because of what he called two bulging disks in his neck. The team referred to the injury as neck spasms.

Chavez originally injured his neck during a Spring Training drill. He underwent an MRI exam a couple of weeks ago and the results were bulges in the C6 and C7 disks.

“I wasn’t too shocked,” he said. “I knew what I was feeling.”