rolling injuries 2014

and Yu will miss opener w/ stiff neck

and Kershaw! MRI.

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/26/5551828/clayton-kershaw-injury-dodgers-opening-day-scratched

@washingnats
#Nats RHP Doug Fister is going on the 15-day disabled list to start the season. He has a lat strain. #Nats #Nationals #MLB

Dave Hernandez of the dbacks is getting tommy john.. guy has nasty stuff.

Wilson Ramos broke his hand.

and jose reyes taken out in the 1st inning with some sort of hamstring problem. man, reyes' hamstrings. :(

don baylor carried off the field after catching vlad's ceremonial first pitch

lock thread.

Assumed Vlad was out there to hit the ceremonial first 58-footer.

Broken leg!

How bizarre.

don baylor carried off the field after catching vlad's ceremonial first pitch

just learned that Baylor has had the same disease, MM, for 11 years that I have. It knocks the shit out of your bones.

Carlos Gonzalez left Wednesday's game after swallowing his dip

"swallowing his dip" is just a euphemism for an advanced...well you know

TJ surgery for Matt Moore

adam wainwright: hyperextended right knee

i stepped away from watching the game for about 20 minutes, and i totally missed it. ugh. hope this doesn't knock him out for months or something.

colorado springs sky sox utilityman matt mcbride broke his foot during a home-run trot

Michael Pineda out 3-4 weeks with Grade I strain of the Teres Major muscle below his right shoulder. Rub some tar on it.

Matthew Kory:
"Robinson Cano returned to New York and fans chanted 'Sellout' at him which is weird because only 37,484 people were there."

(more like 8000 with the weather)

Matt Cain cut his finger while trying to cut a sandwich into "fancy triangles".

http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2014/05/05/a-list-of-sf-giants-not-going-to-fresno-plus-tonights-lineup/

Is that what they call it these days

uh oh jose fernandez is getting an mri

basically every pitcher will be TJ'd by August

@timmarchman
If you have a starter who's 24 or younger with a K/9 of 10 or above just send him to Europe for a year. http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/t1xUr …

http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=t1xUr

imo we should cancel the 2015 season, give every pitcher on 40-man rosters/ba's top 20 prospects tommy john on nov. 1, 2014, and start fresh

― mookieproof, Friday, April 25, 2014 8:24 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

@injuryexpert
Sabathia headed to see Dr. Andrews for a consult on the knee. Raises the concern level a notch. Yankees say no meniscus damage.

ROBOT PITCHERS NOW

jose fernandez to dl

shit, yeah

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/miami-marlins-right-hander-jose-fernanez-to-disabled-list-with-right-elbow-sprain?ymd=20140512&content_id=75230810&vkey=news_mlb

TINSTAPP

@JCRMarlinsbeat
Source: #Marlins anticipate Fernandez will require season-ending elbow surgery.

yikes

fucking hell

http://crow202.org/2009/cat_cant_have_nice_things.jpg

ffuuuuuuuu

TINSTAAP <--note the lack of extra P

Depressing, first Harvey, now Fernandez, something must be wrong surely.

That's awful. Throw Strasburg in, too--I don't know, is it even worth all the caution? Or maybe just don't ever bring up a pitcher until he's 22.

Harvey debuted at 23...just picking numbers out of the air, but so much for that theory.

On this podcast, one of the guests says he was particularly alarmed by JF throwing his curveball 54 times in one game. Something to do with supination and pronation.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23559

Anyway, hard throwing + MLB intensity + extreme velocity = busting your arm, it seems.

I wonder if converted catchers are the new market (in)efficiency(?) in pitching. those dudes werent throwing sliders at 13. then again kenley jansen is one of the few to be super successful.

motte was a converted catcher, but it didn't save his elbow

Jose Fernandez was diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow and surgery was recommended by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in the initial diagnosis.

Tom Verducci says lowering the mound would help. Also this:

"Most every sport increases action and drama as the game draws near to its end; football teams can go to a hurry-up offense, hockey teams can pull their goalie, basketball teams can shoot more three-pointers...but the closer baseball games get to their conclusion the more they slow down and the less likely teams are to get a hit, which makes the excitement of the comeback less likely.

Let's use the National League as an example. From the seventh through ninth innings, nearly one out of every four at-bats ends in a strikeout (24.1%). In those innings, batters are hitting .232.

Now here's the context you need to know about that batting average. The worst hitting in the league's history occurred in 1908, when batters hit .239 for the season. So what is happening in today's game is that the late innings have turned into a brand of offensive baseball that is worse than the deadest of the Deadball Era years."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20140513/jose-fernandez-miami-marlins-injury/

""Most every sport increases action and drama as the game draws near to its end... basketball teams can shoot more three-pointers"

just want to point out that what actually happens at the end of close basketball games is a long series of timeouts, fouls, and free throws.

it's the worst part about basketball

There's a bit of a disconnect between the theory and the reality.

Texas SPs Harrison and Perez likely out for the year

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/27/77/34/6289206/3/628x471.jpg

Brandon Belt underwent surgery on Tuesday to have two pins installed in his fractured left thumb, manager Bruce Bochy, but the timetable for the first baseman's return remains six weeks.

The pins are expected to stay in for four weeks, and Belt would spend two weeks after that preparing to return to the lineup.

http://sad-ucl.github.io

ben zobrist dislocates his thumb sliding headfirst; headfirst haters huffy

Beltran to DL w/ 37-yo man's elbow

@SportsCenter
Baseball's Tommy John epidemic continues: Rangers LHP Martin Perez will have surgery for partial tear in his elbow ligament.

Doesn't look promising:

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/94278650/hit-in-face-marlins-slugger-giancarlo-stanton-suffers-laceration-fractures

Pretty awful.

pretty good:

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/cj-nitkowski-recovery-process-for-pitchers-after-hitting-a-batter-in-face-091214