Here Come the Injuries
by gondeee on Apr 16, 2009 8:05 PM EDT
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PrintHere we go again. As if last year wasn't bad enough with the multitude of injuries, they are starting to mount yet again this season.
- Yunel Escobar strained an abdominal muscle on Thursday and might be out three or four games. These little nagging injuries are what slowed his last year.
- Chipper Jones has missed three games with a bruised left thumb, essentially he is unable to hit against right-handers.
- Jorge Campillo is experiencing "dead arm" and was placed on the 15-day DL. James Parr was called up to take his spot in the bullpen.
- Garret Anderson has missed time this year with a left oblique strain.
And this is just the second week of the season. What concerns me is that there might be more dead arm in that bullpen than just Campillo.
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Those are terrible.
"…aren’t worthy enough to hold his (Pujols) ass cheeks apart while Playboy models wipe him with thousand dollar bills after he craps out the cure to whatever previously-incurable disease." by royhobbs 1/7/09
According to the AJ, Escobar hurt it doing that up and down jumping before he gets in the batters box. That sounds about right.
"Ohhhh Shit."-Bobby Cox, 3/28/09
If that's true
That goes right up there with Chipper reaching for his sunglasses, and Sammy Sosa sneezing his back out
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
You honestly want Diaz to get 600 PAs?
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 16, 2009 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah..
lets cut a guy who had 2 doubles today. sounds good to me. im sure the braves will get that done ASAP.
Be quick, but don't hurry.
by bravesfansc on Apr 17, 2009 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions
and you suggest BORCHARD, of all people?
I don’t get it. I mean, a guy who has a proven track record, albeit one long enough to make him quite old, but still, or two guys who have never done anything at the major league level.
Justin Timberlake from 1998 called...
he wants Yunel to give him his blonde highlights back.
Be quick, but don't hurry.
And Chipper can’t hit against RIGHT handers…
by volsandbraves on Apr 17, 2009 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions
well, on the plus side...
None of those are season-ending injuries. More or less just normal tweaks that anyone could experience.
somebody explain to me...
…why we call up Parr and Reyes who have ERA’s of 4.15 and 6.00 respectively (yes I know they only started 1 game so far – which they both lost) and yet we have Hanson with a sub-1 ERA and Morton both with more K’s than you can shake a stick at. What are we doing?
Because ERAs mean absolutely shit and it’s minor league and it’s JUST ONE start in minor leagues and Morton’s schedule start is today not tomorrow and the team does not want to start the arbitration clock on Hanson yet so what they are doing is calling up the lefty who pitched well in Spring Training whose spot was taken by an old guy who turns out can’t play anymore so the lefty is getting his rightful spot back and they’re calling up the righty with a not-dead arm to temporarily replace the WBC Mexican dead-armed pitcher
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
that was
a long sentence. but it makes sense, I just never think about the arbitration clock, blah blah blah, everything else. I just like to put the best team on the field so we have the best chance to win games. ERAs don’t really mean shit, it’s all about the wins and losses, but it is a tool we can use to judge pitchers’ performance. I believe I did mention in my post that, yes, they had only pitched in one game thus far, and I’m aware that Reyes pitched well in spring training – against a lot of minor leaguers – and still remember the farce that was his major league career to date. I don’t think he gives us our best chance to win. I hate when the business of baseball interferes with winning baseball games, like choosing not to bring up a deserving young player only to keep his arbitration clock un-wound. that just doesn’t put W’s on the board.
I rest my case
5 runs in 5 2/3 innings. Jo-Jo needs to go-go bye-bye…
/facepalm
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 17, 2009 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
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