2018 injury roll/discussion

mike napoli wrecked his knee in a minor league game and could be done for good

he appeared to slip on the (home) plate in one of those bullpens-in-foul-territory while tracking a popup

Hunter Pence, sprained thumb

a mercy spraining

kris bryant hit in the head by a german marquez fastball. sounds like he'll be ok, last i saw said he had a laceration but no concussion. scary though

Tim Beckham out til at least June after "core surgery" (English, please) bcz of course he's my fucking HACKING MASS 3b

Seager out for entire season ffs

Corey, that is.

Whoa

Randal Grichuk, right knee sprain

What about a thread for extended DL stints for guys already on the DL, por ejemplo:

Brian Buxton was on the DL for migraines... broke his toe after fouling a pitch off it in a rehab game.

OR

Jake Lamb on the DL for AC sprain in his left shoulder, developed tendinitis in his right elbow, will miss another couple weeks.

Adam Eaton remains "shut down" from all baseball activities indefinitely...

yesterday Joe Panik with a thumb and out six weeks, today Johhhy Cueto with an elbow, TBD.

The strain in Hyun-Jin Ryu’s groin was severe. He tore the muscle off the bone, Dave Roberts said.

— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughTimes) May 3, 2018

9:55am: Molina will miss at least four weeks after suffering a “pelvic injury with traumatic hematoma,” the Cardinals announced (Twitter links via Joe Trezza of MLB.com). They’ve placed him on the DL and recalled Kelly. The club also recalled reliever Mike Mayers, who will take Dominic Leone’s place. Leone is headed to the DL with “right arm upper nerve irritation.”

8:11am: Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina underwent surgery Saturday after being hit in the groin by a foul tip, president of baseball operations John Mozeliak confirmed to Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Cardinals are now expected to go without Molina for at least a month.

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brutal to watch

Kershaw out for 10 days (+?) with bicep tendinitis

Wade Miley, strained oblique, 4-6 weeks

Robinson Cano, broken hand

AJ Pollock out 4-8 weeks with a thumb injury

I guess Cano got an 80 day PED suspension today.

Votto left a game last night and is sitting out tonight with some back tightness.

arguably best player in the NL to date

xp

Kenyan Middleton will be having Tommy John.

Yu Darvish, right triceps tendinitis

Ronald Acuña Jr, left ACL sprain, 10-day DL
Pretty amazing he was able to walk off the field yesterday after that tumble.

Mookie Betts, abdominal strain!

icymi, TJ surgery for Jordan Montgomery

Andrelton Simmins, sprained ankle

nooooo, he's too much fun to watch

He's underplaying it (party due to embarrassment)... feels frustrated he had to go to the DL.

And now Strasburg's annual injury report, pulled after 2 innings with a shoulder issue, sent to hospital for MRI. What a year!

mentioned on the BFIB thread, but alex reyes is now out for the year again

well that took long enough

https://www.mlb.com/news/angels-kole-calhoun-placed-on-disabled-list/c-279510682

evan longoria broken hand

Good news for that kid on the Giants* who isn't getting any quality playing time because he's cockblocked by Panik (who is quite possibly the most terrible leadoff hitter in recent memory).

*Alen Hanson:
2018: .338/.377/.690, 11k:5bb, 5HR, 3SB as a bench/reserve player

former pirate great

Hunter Strickland punched a door after coming out of game last night. He fractured his pitching hand and is having surgery. Out at least six to eight weeks.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) June 19, 2018

lewis brinson 1, hunter strickland 0

https://deadspin.com/the-beef-between-lewis-brinson-and-hunter-strickland-is-1826964878

strickland is such a weirdo

INJURIES OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)

What a week. Hunter Strickland lost a heavyweight-championship bout with a wall. Brandon Morrow’s pants gave him more trouble than the hitters. And it wasn’t even safe to watch baseball’s most beloved mascot perform his customary merriment.

Because all of that happened just this week, what better time to recap The Top Five Injuries of the Year (So Far)? And here’s the best part:

To select this prestigious list, I called on baseball’s preeminent injury authority (non-Dr. James Andrews Division) — former Giants pitcher (and three-time Injury of the Year winner) Jeremy Affeldt.

As a man whose three Injury of the Year honors were all due to mishaps away from the field (separating frozen hamburgers, hugging his son after a road trip, playing with his kids at a lake), Affeldt offers a clear understanding of the most critical factors involved in assessing the creativity and degree of difficulty involved in these calamities:

A) How much abuse would they elicit from teammates?

B) How embarrassing would it be to tell your trainer or general manager what happened?

“With all of my injuries,” he told Useless Info, “I’d think, ‘How am I going to explain this to (GM) Brian Sabean?’ He’d usually just look at me and walk out of the room. And I’d think, ‘Hmmm, he and I probably aren’t going to have dinner any time soon.’”

So … as GMs stomp out of rooms all across our fair land, are you ready for this year’s top five injuries? Let’s announce them now!

FIRST PRIZE – Cubs closer Brandon Morrow attempts to take off his pants in the closet after returning from a road trip, fails to nail the landing, winds up on the disabled list with back spasms.

Affeldt’s take: I put that No. 1 because it was most relatable to me. It felt like something I would have done. Just taking your pants off and you blow out your back? I’m surprised it never happened to me. I don’t know how I missed that one.

SECOND PRIZE – Royals catcher Salvador Pérez squats a thousand times a week and comes out of that feeling just fine. But he takes a funny step while carrying his suitcase up the stairs after arriving home from spring training — and lands on the DL with a torn MCL. Our unprofessional diagnosis: Samsonitis!

Affeldt’s take: It’s a suitcase deal. It’s one of those things you do all the time. The worst part is, you do it at home, and then you have to make the phone call to the trainer. So you call him and he says, “What’s up?”And you say, “I was just carrying my suitcase up the steps and I blew out.” And the trainer’s like, “Whaat?” It’s the most awkward conversation ever….And just the irony of that, for a catcher? I could easily make that No. 1.

THIRD PRIZE – Mariners masher Nelson Cruz hits a home run in the second game of the season and successfully trots around the bases without incident – then unsuccessfully tries to hop down the dugout steps and lands on the DL with a sprained ankle.

Affeldt’s take: My thing is, if I’m a player on that team, I’m probably going to be laughing at that one. I mean, the most un-athletic move you could possibly have is blowing out doing something you do every day — walking down the steps. You ever notice that nobody ever does that after they strike out? When you strike out, you walk down those steps nice and slow. But when you hit a home run, you’ve got so much more energy going. You see guys and they’re out of breath and you say, “You’re out of breath after a home run trot?” But it’s because there’s an adrenaline rush. There’s so much excitement, you almost don’t breathe. So the moral of the story is: Act like you did it before. Take your time. Make it down the steps.

FOURTH PRIZE – Giants third baseman Evan Longoria stands in the batter’s box as Derek Holland throws a side session with no plans to swing – but still somehow turns an ankle and misses a game.

Affeldt’s take: You see hitters do that all the time, standing in, just tracking balls. They’re not standing close. They’re not getting out of the way of any pitches. They’re just standing there because it’s a bullpen session — and you roll your ankle? I put that at No. 4 just because I like the ones with athletes being un-athletic. That’s just funny to me, probably because I’ve done that so much myself. I’ll hit a golf shot sometimes and say, “Seriously? How does a professional athlete hit a shot that bad?” So when you roll your ankle just standing in, I guarantee all the guys in the clubhouse say, “That’s an athletic move.”

FIFTH PRIZE – In order to score the first run of his career, Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka has to run 90 consecutive feet to score on a sacrifice fly at Citi Field. That goes so well, he somehow lands on the DL with two sore hamstrings.

Affeldt’s take: I’m thinking, you run down the line and then you have to tell the trainer, “I tweaked my hamstrings.” And he says, “You mean ‘hamstring.’” And you have to go, “No. Both of them.” I mean, I don’t know how that’s possible, to blow out both of them. I know in our training room, we used to hang these things on the wall. I know because I was on there a lot. If you look bad on the field or do something really dumb and go on the DL, they’d put you up there. I hope they have one (in Yankee Stadium) because this is going on that wall.

NOT IN THE TOP FIVE SHOCKER – Hunter Strickland blows save, punches wall, loses unanimous decision, ends up on DL with broken hand.

Affeldt’s take: Here’s why that’s not in my top five. More people do that than you’d think. I could tell you hundreds of guys I’ve watched who got mad and punched something. They just didn’t break their metacarpal.

MINOR LEAGUE BONUS INJURY – Thanks to the Orange County Register’s Jeff Fletcher for alerting us to this one: Angels prospect Taylor Ward got promoted from double A to triple A last month. Alas, his journey from Mobile to Salt Lake had to be delayed for 10 days — because he cut his finger while packing (and had to wait it out on the DL).

Affeldt’s take: I actually feel bad about this one. Your whole goal is to get called up. And now you cut your finger packing and you can’t get called up? That’s really unlucky — but it is really funny.

BONUS MASCOT INJURY – The Phillie Phanatic aimed his fabled hot-dog launcher toward the seats of Citizens Bank Park on Monday — and launched a duct-taped hot dog directly into the face of poor Kathy McVay. Her glasses went flying. Her eye turned into a black-and-blue puffball. And she wound up in the emergency room. But other than that, her 15 minutes of fame have gone splendidly.

Affeldt’s take: My advice would be: When you’re shooting a cannon, try not to aim at people’s faces. You’re not doing the launch-angle thing to hit a home run. So how ’bout just hitting a little infield pop-up? But all injuries caused by mascots should be on this list — because those are epic.

braves move (good canadian kid) mike soroka from the 10-day DL to the 60-day

Kris Bryant, shoulder inflammation

Lorenzo Cain, groin strain

Danny Salazar of the talent-rich AL Central is out for the season.

I think I drafted him pretty high in our league too.

Did he even play a game?

poor man's bieber anyway

Gleyber Torres, hip strain

If the doctors celebrate after Brian McCann’s successful knee surgery do you think he’ll get mad?

- Ben Carsley, BP

Lewis Brinson, an anchor of my HACKING MASS team, hip inflammation

Todd Frazier, strained rib cage

TJ for Garrett Richards

good lord

lol Morbs

Gregor Polanco out for ROS with significant bone bruise in leg as well as shoulder issue.

other AL contenders are reportedly upset about the donaldson trade to clevo -- the jays certified him as major-league healthy and only healthy players can go through waivers (which i didn't know), so his immediate DL-ing and rehab stint should have been unnecessary

kinda sounds like the jays broke the rules and the other teams are mad that they were unable to reap the benefit while the indians did

brad peacock has hand/foot/mouth disease

sean manaea is having shoulder surgery and will be out until 2020

Re: the Donaldson thing... every team had the same opportunity as the Indians. The jays may have gotten cute with the rules, but I don’t see how the Indians had an advantage over anyone else.

well, the indians had the worst record of the AL playoff teams, so they got to make the waiver claim first

I think Donaldson cleared waivers? If he didn’t then, ya, I could see how that might be a problem.

indeed you are correct

James Paxton has some sort of virus and won’t travel with the #Mariners to Anaheim, Scott Servais said. Possible he could travel later but very unlikely.

— TJ Cotterill (@TJCotterill) September 12, 2018

Pedro Strop appears to have gotten hurt trying to beat out a throw to first base. Based on his reaction, it looks like a possible left hamstring injury. Devastating for the Cubs

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) September 13, 2018

Apparently (it is September after all) there were plenty of PH-eligible bats on the bench but Maddon left him in and now they're down 2 closers.

Michael Fulmer, meniscus, MRI, Dr. James Andrews, etc.

Trevor Story leaves game mid-AB (not plunked)... that's never a good sign.

#Rockies’ Trevor Story facing potential UCL damage in right elbow, sources tell The Athletic. Exact diagnosis not yet known.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) September 18, 2018

and that's . . . the rest of the story

Eddie Rosario reaggravated his strained hamstring and is likely out for the year.

no ligament damage for story, he'll be back in a few days

brandon morrow out for the rest of the season

also jose abreu hospitalized with an infection in his leg

no ligament damage for story, he'll be back in a few days

― na (NA), Tuesday, September 18, 2018 5:35 PM (yesterday)

just saw that he pinch ran for someone last night and scored a run.

Francisco Lindor has sustained a right calf strain while preparing for ST. He has started rehab & is expected to return to Major League game activity in 7-to-9 weeks.

Get well soon & keep smiling!

We are confident that everyone will handle this news calmly & rationally ... pic.twitter.com/x19uXFClGC

— Cleveland Indians (@Indians) February 8, 2019

the disabled list will be renamed the injured list