Schneider's Thumb

[bmfc1]

Bad news conveyed by Adam Rubin:

Breaking news: Brian Schneider has been sent to New York with an infected left thumb that may require a DL trip. He just landed in New York 40 minutes ago.

There will likely be a roster move to activate Gustavo Molina. We�ll see who is the roster casualty, depending on the seriousness with Schneider.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/mets/2008/04/infected-thumb-sends-schneider.html

[metirish]

Bad news indeed , who gets the bulk of the playing time now?

[Guest AG/DC]

I scream to you, Sandy Alomar, Jr.! But you listen not.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Infected thumb?

[Frayed Knot]

Where's that thumb been I wonder?

It was his right wrist/arm that got smacked the other day so that's not it.
Castro's been playing down in PSL but I doubt he's ready yet.

[Benjamin Grimm]

bmfc1 wrote: There will likely be a roster move to activate Gustavo Molina. We�ll see who is the roster casualty, depending on the seriousness with Schneider.

Well, it Schneider is DL'ed, then he's the casualty.

If not, then who? Maybe for a day or so it could be Brady Clark; he's due to be replaced by Alou soon anyway.

[Valadius]

Oh great.

Wait, if his thumb hurts so badly, why'd he play last night?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I called it...

Brady's been DFA'ed.

[Theoldmole]

Are we now criticizing players for playing hurt?

[Willets Point]

Frayed Knot wrote: Where's that thumb been I wonder?

Shaking hands with Moises Alou post-"toughening"?

[Guest Triple Dee]

4/26 -- C Brian Schneider remained hospitalized with an infection in his left thumb. Manager Willie Randolph said that Schneider will continue to receive antibiotics. "I don't know what to anticipate on this," Randolph said. "This is something very new." ...

[Benjamin Grimm]

Weren't there reports a few years ago that Saddam Hussein was working on engineering a virulent thumb virus?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Don't they have a medical staff around these guys constantly? How does a thumb cut get so bad that it's infected without trainers monitoring it every day?

[Frayed Knot]

Reportedly there was no cut and the source/timing of the infection remains a mystery.

[Guest Mr. Zero]

Five days in the hospital with a thumb infection? Drug resistant staph maybe? Have open heart surgery and they send you home in 3-4 days.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: Reportedly there was no cut and the source/timing of the infection remains a mystery.

Sounds like MRSA.

[duan]

i think i read on will carroll's that it was MRSA.

[metirish]

] Schneider has been in a New York hospital since last Thursday with an infection in his left thumb and has been treated with intravenous antibiotics. Minaya said Monday that Schneider did not have a staph infection and that his swelling had not been lanced, but he revised his report Tuesday. Acknowledging his lack of medical sophistication, Minaya said doctors told him that Schneider had a �mixed organism infection caused by normal skin bacteria,� and that, while it was partly associated with staph, it was not the more serious kind of problem usually associated with a staph infection.

Source NYT.