  We reply to the Comment by Hatsuda and Lee on our recent paper "Meson Masses
in Nuclear Matter" (Phys.Rev.Lett. 78, 1010, (1997)). We argue that, contrary
to the claim in the Comment, the short distance operator product expansion is
not applicable for calculation of meson mass shifts in nuclear matter, since
they are determined by long distance physics. We also remark that the
suggestion made in the Comment that we overlooked in our paper the mean field
description of the mass shifts of low-q mesons is perhaps due to a
misunderstanding.
