"Strangers come and cut your heart out": Injuries in 2015

[Ceetar]

Also depending on the timing, they have an easy way to just hand the job to Parnell without creating too much drama.

[Frayed Knot]

According to Will Carroll, BBWAA member and author of Saving the Pitcher and The Carroll Guide to Sports Injuries, �With each pitch, Mejia is likely �slamming the elbow,� as pitching coaches and doctors describe it,�. As his arm extends with the pitch, the bones of the upper and forearm are either actually contacting or putting severe stress on the connective structures.�
He goes on to argue that Jenrry needs to alter his delivery or face a repeat of the same problem later on. �Mejia�s injury is one that recurs and apparently has, so while he�s worth keeping an eye on, this injury has likely taken significant value from him,� Carroll concludes and that with proper rehab he's on a path for a late April/early May return.


Carroll was at one time with, I think it was, Baseball Prospectus where he ran the injury beat -- this is from 'Fan Duel Insider', essentially a fantasy tout sheet although that alone doesn't make it inaccurate. But I seem to recall him seeming a little too sure of what was often guesswork on his part being passed of as if insider info. Fantasy players of course are looking for every edge they can get (particularly as these one-day competitions become more popular) and so are liable towards swallowing up this sort of thing as if carved in stone the same way NFL fans listen to any pre-game "analysis" that they think will tilt their Sunday bets in the right direction. So take all this for what it is.

[Edgy MD]

The phrase "taken significant value from him," seems so heartless, in that it suggest the injury isn't to the person but to the asset.

And then reading your afterword, it further seems that he's writing about Mejia not as a person or as an asset, but as a doubly abstract fantasy asset.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I traded some email with Carroll for an assignment supposedly in his wheelhouse once and the impression he left was that he was a huge cack sitting atop Mt. Knowitall.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: The phrase "taken significant value from him," seems so heartless, in that it suggest the injury isn't to the person but to the asset. And then reading your afterword, it further seems that he's writing about Mejia not as a person or as an asset, but as a doubly abstract fantasy asset.

Like I said, he may be writing as the go-to medical guy but he's doing so for a fantasy outlet -- and not just an outlet that caters to fantasy players but one that's in business specifically to SELL fantasy games -- so that kind of language may be disturbing but it's not unexpected. Assets are the way ones thinks about players when they're betting on them on a day to day basis.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Adam Rubin wrote: Alderson said estimates for the lengths of d'Arnaud's and Blevins' absences will not be available until both players are examined by hand specialists Monday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan.

[G-Fafif]

1972. I hope not.

[Edgy MD]

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[Frayed Knot]

So is Jenrry Mejia playing the part of Thomas Eagleton in this little drama?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

This thread is already too long. So many injuries this early in the season.

[G-Fafif]

Frayed Knot wrote: So is Jenrry Mejia playing the part of Thomas Eagleton in this little drama?

I'm a thousand percent behind Senator d'Arnaud.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Injury news not so bad: Travis 3 weeks in a splint then if healed can begin bb activities.

Blevins 6 weeks in a splint.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Injury news not so bad: Travis 3 weeks in a splint then if healed can begin bb activities. Blevins 6 weeks in a splint.

So realistically guesstimating: Td'A = June 1st; JB = July 1st

[Edgy MD]

Both surprisingly optimistic.

I can imagine what a healing hand fracture feels like every time you hit a vibrating shot off the handle or the end of the bat. <<SHUDDER>> So I imagine three weeks will be a bit longer before he's contributing at 100%. I'd guess six weeks until he's back in the lineup, and nine before he's himself again.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Both surprisingly optimistic. I can imagine what a healing hand fracture feels like every time you hit a vibrating shot off the handle or the end of the bat. <<SHUDDER>> So I imagine three weeks will be a bit longer before he's contributing at 100%. I'd guess six weeks until he's back in the lineup, and nine before he's himself again.

At least it's not his left hand. 99mph Matt Harvey fastballs pounding the glove over and over.

[Edgy MD]

Agreed.

[Zvon]

Vic Black = herniated disc.

[Zvon]

Hate to bother u guyz w/this but it's my last recourse.

I started this thing, Operation Wright, to display the areas that Dave's been injured. I started it in early February and then put it aside. My intention was to use it before the season but never did. After Wrights hammy pull I dug it out with the idea of possibly using it to track any injuries Wright will suffer this season (along with the original concept). I know this sounds jinxey but if there are going to be more injuries, we better to be able to have a little fun with it. 'Lil bit.



So here's my dilemma. As I was drawing this up I was researching Wrights career injuries from a bunch of on-line sources. I put in where the injury was and a line pointing to it. But I didn't fill in the info about the injury. So when I rebooted the work I started filling in the injury info and I have one left over. I must have seen he had an injury in his neck or on his chin, but I have no recollection of where I got the info. I did look at the places I was researching from in Feb., but I didn't find anything. Then I looked everywhere I could. Nothing. There's a possibility that I had a joke in mind, but I think I would remember that if I did.

So did Wright have neck spasms or something? Anyone know of any injury to him in that area?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Neck stiffness, with a little recurrence last year.

[Zvon]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Neck stiffness, with a little recurrence last year.

Thanks LWFS. I guess I considered that serious.

[Edgy MD]

Breaking: Matt Harvey has been pitching through a "foot issue." Off for an examination.

[TransMonk]

Fug.

Fingers crossed.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hope he doesn't have to miss the rest of the season for Barry Foote surgery.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I hope he doesn't have to miss the rest of the season for Barry Foote surgery.

I shudder when I hear of pitchers with foot problems. IIRC, Dizzy Dean altered his throwing motion to relieve pain on a broken foot (toe?) and permanently injured his arm.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

It was a broken toe. I think Dizzy took a line drive off his toe in an All-Star game.

I wouldn't be too alarmed by injuries that occurred eighty years ago. Now, I think they'd know not to let a pitcher take the mound until his toe was fully healed. What happened to Ol' Diz isn't likely to happen again.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wouldn't be too alarmed by injuries that occurred eighty years ago.

Well put.

Dean's injury is like Willie Mays' final year in that people tend to take it as more illustrative of... something... than it really is.

[MFS62]

Didn't say it would happen again, or that its illustrative of anything.
But like Merkle's boner, Ruth's called shot and Mickey Owen dropping the third strike, it is part of baseball lore that is still remembered.

Later

[Edgy MD]

I shudder when I hear of somebody getting a boner.

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: But like Merkle's boner, Ruth's called shot and Mickey Owen dropping the third strike, it is part of baseball lore that is still remembered.

And maybe even partially true.

[ashie62]

Harvey has a mildly sprained ankle and does not intends to miss the MFY's per the Post.

Edited April 23, 2015 by Guest