2018 injury roll/discussion

From the clubhouse: Lance McCullers Jr. left tonight's game with right elbow discomfort.

— Houston Astros (@astros) August 5, 2018

George Springer with a left thumb injury sustained while attempting to steal 2nd. Doesn’t look good for Georgie

Kenley Jansen, irregular heartbeat

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24339788/kenley-jansen-los-angeles-dodgers-expected-miss-month-irregular-heartbeat

Cardinals' Weaver misses start after cutting finger on food tray

Luke Weaver's fight with dinner prevented him from taking the mound Sunday.

The St. Louis Cardinals right-hander was scratched from his start against the Kansas City Royals after slicing the index finger of his pitching hand on aluminum foil that was covering a tray. The team attempted to glue the wound to allow him to pitch, but it would not hold.

"He cut it on the piece of the topping," Cardinals interim manager Mike Shildt said, according to ESPN.

"It's on his right index finger. He probably could have started, but it just made sense to not push it and have him throw 90 or 100 pitches. We didn't want him to miss another start."

Tyson Ross filled in for Weaver and allowed two runs over six innings while striking out four.

Leonys Martin has been battling a life-threatening bacterial infection that attacked his internal organs. He is currently in stable condition, and is improving. Chris Antonetti addressed the Indians about the situation this afternoon.

— Zack Meisel (@ZackMeisel) August 13, 2018

Trevor Bauer to DL with small fibula fracture

Weird, initial X-Rays said negative.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said following Monday's game that Brian Dozier will be sent for further testing after an EKG test for cardiac rhythms revealed "abnormalities."

That's 2 Dodgers with heart issues in the past few days.

Back to Bauer, this means his regular season is done ja?

One day after Brian Dozier said Zyrtec triggered his dizziness, Ross Stripling said soft beds at the Ritz-Carlton hampered his back. This team is like Consumer Reports.

— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) August 15, 2018

Dereck Rodriguez pulled his hamstring running onto the field during the Puig brawl last night.

10 Day DL

Sale

Didi Gregorius was placed on the 10-day disabled list Tuesday after receiving what manager Aaron Boone called "a pretty bad bruise" on his left heel Sunday.

#Cubs Darvish out for the year with stress reaction on elbow

— Carrie Muskat (@CarrieMuskat) August 21, 2018

Wil Myers has been scratched from the Padres' lineup Wednesday due to a lacerated nose.

Advice: Myers suffered the injury when he got hit by a stray batting practice ball while standing near the third base bag ahead of Wednesday night's game at Coors Field.

when he got hit by a stray batting practice ball while standing near the third base bag

not to be a jerk but that wasn't a "stray" batting practice ball, that was myers not paying attention

Sean Manaea to the 10-day (shoulder)

Not a joke:

Josh Donaldson to 10-Day DL (calf)

that's a paper transaction so he can continue getting into game shape -- he's playing third in columbus today

and hit a grand slam

Not sure what to make of that, he didn't get included in the September call-ups and yet hit a grand slam against a guy who also didn't make the 40-man roster.

he's on a rehab assignment, backdated a few days before the trade. he'll be on the indians sometime next week. they're moving jose ramirez to 2B and kipnis to CF to make room for donaldson at 3B

columbus' season is over, so donaldson will now join double-a akron for its first-round playoff series starting tomorrow

what a disaster for the sanctity of eastern league playoff records

TJ for Ohtani

oof

https://i.imgur.com/5s5rdRP.jpg

goddammit

seemed like only approach after Sunday

uh, also ohtani hit a HR tonight (a 361-ft home run, but still). he's still cleared to hit

They say it's possible he could play the outfield next year even after TJ? I'm not sure how that would work -- outfielders still have to throw.

gleyber torres had TJ in late june last year, was hitting at the beginning of spring training and playing shortstop no later than the first week of april. so it seems like if he had the surgery now, he might not miss all that much time as a hitter next year. throwing in the upper 90s might be a good bit longer, tho

michael kopech, torn UCL, TJ on the way

tore it deleting tweets

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.