Plawecki's Hand is Broken

[G-Fafif]

Puma in the Post reports it ain't just a bruise.

Step up Tomas and Jose and whoever else.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So much for the "negative x-rays".

[Benjamin Grimm]

David Wright is still on the 10-day disabled list. That gives the Mets an easy way to make room on the 40 for Lobaton, if that's what they decide to do.

[G-Fafif]

Here's the story:

https://nypost.com/2018/04/13/kevin-plaweckis-hand-is-broken-and-the-mets-are-in-trouble/

[Ceetar]

oof, that's a shame. and broken hands tend to sap power for a bit even after healed i believe.

[MFS62]

Thomas Nido, time to step up and be a hero.
Its that kind of year.
Later

[Centerfield]

I think it was FK that said he's surprised when a 100 MPH pitch hits a hand and it's broken. Well, be surprised no more.

I would guess 12 weeks for a hand fracture. See you at the AS Break.

Um, so yeah, we need a catcher. I guess maybe you take a flyer on Montero or something?

[Ceetar]

Centerfield wrote: I think it was FK that said he's surprised when a 100 MPH pitch hits a hand and it's broken. Well, be surprised no more. I would guess 12 weeks for a hand fracture. See you at the AS Break. Um, so yeah, we need a catcher. I guess maybe you take a flyer on Montero or something?

initial reports are it's a tiny fracture can could be only 3 weeks, but that feels optimistic.

I think they'll definitely feel out the Montero types first, and give Loboton and Nido some looks in the short term.

[Centerfield]

Yeah, hairline fracture, out 2-3 weeks.

So I'm guessing they do nothing.

[Valadius]

Lobaton can't hit. I'd prefer they see if Nido is ready and bring in a rent-a-vet for the other spot.

[Edgy MD]

Geovany Soto.

[RealityChuck]

Lobaton will be in Flushing by tomorrow (by today, if he can get a flight). To get him on the 40-man move either D'Arnaud or Wright to the 60-day DL.

It's not ideal, but he's the only option who can step in immediately (they need a backup today) and he won't cost the team in prospects.

Nido should be No. 1 for now. He's probably not ready, but it's better to give him the experience. Lobaton will spell him until Plawecki can play -- say sometime before mid-May.

[Frayed Knot]

So that's a big ol' negative on the negative X-Ray, then?

Nido can't really hit either (at least he hasn't proven to do so yet) but it sounds like we'll get to experience what a little better defense behind the plate is like, at least over the medium term.
Haven't had much of that since the brief NYM days of Hank White (that's Henry Blanco for those of you who don't speak Croatian).

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think we've seen this kind of thing before, where X-rays are negative at first but later reveal a fracture when the initial swelling goes down.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, fans get pissed off when early diagnoses don't turn out to be the eventual truth, but it just goes to show that reading X-Rays/MRIs/EEGs/EKGs/KGBs, etc. is as much art as it is science.
I think a lot of folks are convinced that it's as simple as the litmus paper turning blue when it's broken or torn and red if it's not.

[Lefty Specialist]

If Nido can hit .200 and supply good defense, that's passable. Not like Plawecki's been tearing it up to start the season anyway.