Resuming Baseball Activities: Injuries in 2012

[Edgy MD]

You can find the 2011 thread here. If someday you cannot, look for it in threads started in February 2011.

If you follow that link, you'll see that the first post of that thread is essentially the same as the first in this one --- a report that Johan is throwing.

In this case, long-tossing:

[Centerfield]

Every time I hear that phrase I think of Moises Alou.

[ashie62]

Rubin and the twitterverse are starting in on Johan already..Geez..

[Edgy MD]

Adam Rubin wrote: Ike Davis traveled to NY for additional tests related to his physical. Not an ankle issue.

Adam Rubin wrote: I wouldn't be automatically alarmed. Last year physical discovered anemia w/ Ronny Paulino. But it's often just a minor blood reading off.

Adam Rubin wrote: Terry Collins said Ike Davis already has been cleared and will resume practice tomorrow.

[metirish]

I know they have their affiliation with the HSS but do they need to fly a player from Florida to NY for what sounds like routine tests?

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: I know they have their affiliation with the HSS but do they need to fly a player from Florida to NY for what sounds like routine tests?

I read this more of a doctor thing than a Mets thing. But I don't get it either.

Somewhere (and I'm not paying a whole deal of attention) I saw someone say that the Mets were being extra cautious and doing extra tests or something this year.

[ashie62]

Can't hurt.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy DC wrote: Adam Rubin wrote: Ike Davis is back and his bubbly self.

[Frayed Knot]

Stop me if you've heard this one ... Joel Zumaya: Out for the year with tear in elbow.
He didn't pitch at all in 2011 and hasn't reached the 40 IPs mark since 2006
This time he lasted all of a dozen pitches into his first batting practice of the spring after being picked up by the Twinkies this winter.
He only recently turned 27

[Edgy MD]

Adam Rubin wrote: Ike Davis is back and his bubbly self.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: Adam Rubin wrote: Ike Davis is back and his bubbly self.

Does this mean he has rabies and is foaming at the mouth?

[Frayed Knot]

Scott Sizemore (not Grady ... and not even Ted*) - slated to man 3B for Oakland this coming year after being acquired from the Tigers in mid-season - is out for the year on account of a knee injury suffered just two hours into his first workout.
You hear stuff like this and Zumaya (see above) and it all makes Muffy look down-right Ripken-esque.


* None of these current and past Sizemores are related as far as I can tell, even though Sizemore is one of those names I don't think I've ever heard except for in baseball where it seems almost common.
Scott, btw, is part of that whole SE Virginia mob who all grew up right around the same time (and seemingly all as 3B or SS) and was in fact just two years behind Dabid Rye in the same HS.
Wright (age 29), Zimmerman (27), Upton x2 (27 & 24), Mark Reynolds (28), Cuddyer (32), Sizemore (27)

[Edgy MD]

It's the new Hillsborough High, home of the talented and the tormented.

Gary Sheffield
Dwight Gooden
Mike Heath
Carl Everett
Jose Alvarez
Gene Nelson
Chris Ray
Al Pardo
Floyd Youmans
Jason Romano
Elijah Dukes
Vance Lovelace
Rich Puig (!!)

[Vic Sage]

lets not forget TOM Sizemore... excellent tough guy character actor whose career was partially derailed by drugs and legal problems. He went to Wayne State U, but did not, to my knowledge, play baseball.

[Edgy MD]

Tom Sizemore played Pete Rose in the TV movie Hustle.

Bam!

[Ceetar]

Ryan Howard set-back in recovery, out indefinitely.

Ty to the rescue.

[Edgy MD]

I worry that that team can get by with an average offense --- or even summat below average. Halladay really made a believer out of me last year.

[TransMonk]

Back issue has Mets' Havens out

[Edgy MD]

Gruzbt.

[Edgy MD]

And so... we're under way.

Hairston suffers oblique re-injury By Adam Rubin Scott Hairston strained the same left oblique muscle that prompted him to finish last season on the disabled list, the outfielder said. Hairston, who suffered the injury swinging in the first inning of Saturday's intrasquad game, expects to receive a cortisone shot Monday. Terry Collins said he is "concerned" and "worried" about Hairston because it is a repeat of last year's severe issue. The manager said lefty-hitting Adam Loewen will now get more reps in center field. Hairston has been slated to be the primary backup to Andres Torres in center field as well as the righty-hitting backup for the bench. Loewen started three games with the Toronto Blue Jays last season in center field, and also manned the position for 16 games at Triple-A Las Vegas in 2011. Hairston strained the left oblique Aug. 23 of last season against the Philadelphia Phillies and did not return. "Same as last year, pretty much," Hairston said about the current issue. "I felt it on the swing out there. I felt it grab. And once I felt it grab, I figured it wouldn't be a good idea to take another swing. ... I wouldn't think it's as serious as it was last year. I think right now, the way I feel, it's one of those things where I know it's injured, but it's not severe." If Hairston were to start the season on the DL, the righty hitters in camp who could step into a backup outfield role include Vinny Rottino. The Mets also could be in the market for outfield help at the end of spring training, since they already were not sold entering camp about whether Loewen or Mike Baxter would be productive enough to be the lefty-hitting backup outfielder. Hairston said he worked out during the offseason without issue, but his left side started feeling sore the past couple of days. "But it's just really something that comes out of nowhere," Hairston added. "I took BP today and I felt pretty good. But once you get in a game-like situation, you get the adrenaline going and you're trying to hit a 92 mph fastball instead of a 56 mph one in BP. I think that quicker reaction and the muscles firing, when all that happens -- if you have an injury, or you're rebounding from injury -- you become vulnerable if you're not fully healed. I guess that was the case. "If I were to guess, I might have had some scar tissue there from before. And it was probably close to being fully healed. But the strenuous work that you do as a ballplayer when you're on the field, maybe I did a little too much. Maybe I wasn't doing my routine the way I should be. I don't know. Maybe it's just the way my body is. With the injectoin, probably it will speed things up. Last year I didn't get one. This year hopefully it will be different and I'll be back as soon as possible." Said Collins: "I'm concerned. I certainly can't address how long it's going to be, but I'm concerned about it. ... The only thing that scares me about Scott is he did it bad last year. His was bad."

[Edgy MD]

Flores sidelined with a sore shoulder. Wright scratched with sore left side.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Flores sidelined with a sore shoulder. Wright scratched with sore left side.

as is alluded to by Collins and others in some of these reports, I kinda wish some of these guys would work out a little less.

[Edgy MD]

1. Zach Lutz: Icing his elbow after taking a plunk from Bobby Parnell in today's intrasquad game. Lutz missed significant time last year, twice sustaining concussions after being hit in the head by pitches.
   
   
   
2. Reese Havens: Cortisone shot coming tomorrow.
   
   
   
3. Scott Hairston: Cortisone shot coming tomorrow.
   
   
   
4. Ike Davis: May be subject to "strategic rest" this season.
   
   
   
5. David Wright: Expected to debut at home on Thursday.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

[*]David Wright: Expected to debut at home on Thursday.

Thursday, August 18, to be precise.

[Edgy MD]

Davis expresses will to live.

[Edgy MD]

Beato pulled after heading to the mound for a second inning. Looks like shouldery concerns.

[ashie62]

[*]David Wright: Expected to debut at home on Thursday. Thursday, August 18, to be precise.

Or this..

http://www.rotoworld.com/headlines/mlb/350152/david-wright-(rib-cage)-wont-play-this-week

[Edgy MD]

Reading about everyone else's injuries definitely brings some perspective.

[Edgy MD]

Pedro, Pedro, MRI
His shoulder's sore, we must know why

[TransMonk]

metsblog wrote: Andres Torres was scratched from this morning�s lineup with tightness in his right hip. According to MetsBlog.com�s Matthew Cerrone, Torres felt tightness while stretching with the team yesterday morning, after which he refrained from baseball activity and spent the day in treatment. Torres has been replaced in today�s lineup by Kirk Nieuwenhuis, who will also bat leadoff.