Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge has been cleared to resume baseball activities following November surgery on chronic patellar tendinitis in both knees. He was in locking ankle-to-thigh braces for two weeks after the surgery. "Two weeks of hell, that's for sure," Inge said. "Now that I don't look like Forrest Gump, I obviously feel 10 times better." Inge doesn't expect to be 100 percent by the time spring training begins, but the club hopes he can play full games during the final two weeks of camp. "The pain I was feeling all last year is gone," he said. "The only pain I feel wouldn't even really classify as pain. I guess the way I would describe it, if you were to hold a water balloon in your hands and you squeeze it, that pressure is what I feel in the entire knee. "But that's just from the trauma of someone going into your knee."