You're Entering A World of Pain (2009 Injuries)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Snooze today says The Schneid isn't progressing as well as they'd like and so a weekend DL return is now unlikely.

[metirish]

Ollie to the DL....something about a right knee

[Benjamin Grimm]

And Niese is going to get Friday's start instead of Takahashi.

[Fman99]

And Niese is going to get Friday's start instead of Takahashi.[/quote:2af2qdbz]

Niese, 0-2, 6.55 ERA in Buffalo, and this is our first guy up to make a pinch start. Jeez.

I wonder if Mrs. Figueroa is pitching a fit online.

[soupcan]

Ollie to the DL....something about a right knee[/quote:28e2541s]

Patella tendonitis.

*cough*bullshit*cough*

[Benjamin Grimm]

Seems fishy to me, too. Maybe this will let them give him a rehab assignment to Buffalo and the Mets can conveniently forget to recall him.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I don't know why everyone thinks the only possible explanation for how shitty Perez has been is "a ten-cent head."

Patellar tendonitis, if that's what he's got, certainly would fuck up one's ability to pitch comfortably and it is cured with rest. That's probably an aftereffect of comingin out of shape as Warthen declared, but anyway. We should all be thankful it's not his elbow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, we all need to feel superior to somebody, and Victor Zambrano isn't available.

[MFS62]

Ollie to the DL....something about a right knee[/quote:v5rwpeoh]

Patella tendonitis.

*cough*bullshit*cough*[/quote:v5rwpeoh]

It's a small tear in the nonexistus ligimantus.

Later

[metirish]

Perez gets cut zero slack at all , when the news broke last night on SNY the studio guys made some jokes about it being his head or something. When I heard it one thought I had was that it was a convenient injury.

For whatever reason Perez is an easy target.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think the reasons are clear.

[soupcan]

If his knee has been hurting him all this time why did we first just hear about it on Sunday afternoon? How come it wasn't mentioned after any of his other meltdowns? None of the quotes I've read says anything about Ollie being remiss in not saying anything earlier.

A bad knee doesn't seem like something you'd want a guy guaranteed $36mm to keep pitching through.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Like they wouldn't have called him an out-of-shape pussy had he immediately come up lame.

[Fman99]

If his knee has been hurting him all this time why did we first just hear about it on Sunday afternoon? How come it wasn't mentioned after any of his other meltdowns? None of the quotes I've read says anything about Ollie being remiss in not saying anything earlier.

A bad knee doesn't seem like something you'd want a guy guaranteed $36mm to keep pitching through.[/quote:13168rj8]

I like it - they put him on the Disgraceful List until he "feels better."

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

If his knee has been hurting him all this time why did we first just hear about it on Sunday afternoon? How come it wasn't mentioned after any of his other meltdowns? None of the quotes I've read says anything about Ollie being remiss in not saying anything earlier.

A bad knee doesn't seem like something you'd want a guy guaranteed $36mm to keep pitching through.[/quote:3kqmjtsw]

I'm thinking it took a few days of rehearsal before Ollie could remember which knee was supposed to be tendonit-y.

[Chad ochoseis]

Star-Ledger saying that Delgado and his hip are back to day-to-day status.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

From Adam Rubin's blog (and echoed elsewhere):

Carlos Delgado's balky right hip will send him to the disabled list Saturday, multiple sources told the Daily News after the Mets rallied to beat the Giants, 8-6, Friday night. The call-up will not be top prospect Fernando Martinez, a team insider added.

Surgery-- either the season-ending kind or the A-Rod kind-- is still on the table as an option. (From the Pollyanna department: Delgado has shown the ability so far to Utley it through the pain of the impingement, at least for stretches. Is rest now and a timeshare later the best solution?)

Less disturbing/more promising...

... the Daily News has learned that Billy Wagner is already hitting 90 mph on a mound in Port St. Lucie. He returned to the Mets' complex in recent days after a one-month moratorium on throwing off a mound. An August return now seems entirely realistic.

Food for thought, anyway; let the alpacas' disappointment be our fantasy fodder.

[ashie62]

Lets all hope Carlos hasn't become Bo Jackson and played his last game. Evalution for HOF status may come all too soon

Delgado & Perez 52 million potentionally down the drain.

After Madoff and these signings I doubt Fred & Jeff are giving any investment advice out at Cocktail parties

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Rodriguez, Putz, Parnell, and Wagner is a lot of heat at the back of bullpen.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The fate of the Oliver Perez contract is sealed after less than six weeks?

I really dislike this thing of disparaging owners for not throwing their money around, and then mocking them when they do, but some of their investments (inevitably) go sour. It's awful.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

The fate of the Oliver Perez contract is sealed after less than six weeks?

I really dislike this thing of disparaging owners for not throwing their money around, and then mocking them when they do, but some of their investments (inevitably) go sour. It's Ashie.[/quote:2m003qtb]

[Guest Edgy DC]

Thing is that you can read that catch-22 stuff at any sports site out there.

[Fman99]

Delgado to DL, Pagan up from AAA as per Rotoworld.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bracing for the next round of recriminations if/when Pagan has to be forced back down through waivers.

Meantime, welcome back to the place you belong, Angel Pagan.

[ashie62]

Rodriguez, Putz, Parnell, and Wagner is a lot of heat at the back of bullpen.[/quote:g8nrkaed]

Rodriguez and Parnell are alot of heat at the back of the bullpen

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I hope Wagner can make it back by August to help the pen. It would be great to gain a quality, rested arm late in the season. I could live with Wagner being the eighth inning guy leading up to Rodriguez or he could help spell Feliciano with the LOOGY workload.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm hoping that, by August, the very notion of an "eighth-inning guy" seems to Jerry Manuel like a dimly remembered foolish jaunt of an embarassing youth --- something he talks about only among intimates and still with some sense of unease. Like that time I tried to jump onto a waterslide in the middle, climbing over the wall and trying to jump into somebody else's raft. To impress my younger cousin. Almost got kicked out of Wetland, or whatever it was called.

I hope that, by August, when somebody says, "Hey, Jerry, remember when you were trying to establish an 'eighth-inning guy'?" he says, "Yeah, well, that was then, and I guess we've all come a long..."

And when they interrupt him there, saying, "Yeah, you were all about, 'after the sixth, the bullpen is going into lockdown mode; you were all..." he interrupts right back and says "Can we... can we just change the subject? Can we? Thank you. God!"

[Centerfield]

Adam Rubin says Delgado will see a hip specialist Sunday to determine whether surgery will be necessary. No report I've read so far indicates how long he would be out if such surgery is necessary.

I don't usually join the "our doctors suck" bandwagon, but this seems pretty dumb on a bunch of levels.

1. If this is going to be at least 15 days (and could lead to surgery) how is there any question whether or not he should go on the DL. Especially in May. They played shorthanded all week long for nothing.

2. Why wait until you fly out to San Francisco to determine that he should see the hip specialist in New York. No one thought of this at any point last week during the homestand? If surgery is necessary, that's an unnecessary week that's been lost.

3. How was this missed the first time his hip acted up?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Did Delgado fly out to San Francisco?

[Benjamin Grimm]

During the FOX telecast, Jerry said that Delgado could be out "for a very long time."