Showing posts with label Injury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Injury. Show all posts
Stolen Goods: Disabled List Trends & Team Information
Jeff Zimmerman of Beyond The Boxscore has a great piece up comparing cumulative injury histories by team from 2002 to 2009. Care to guess which team has had the most/least number of injuries over the past seven years? Answers below (charts are from the link):
FML
My plan was to get a nice nap this afternoon after sleeping about 7 hours the past 2 days in preparation for my biochem exam this morning. But as always, people wanted to play some basketball, and I am incapable of saying no to sports. Nearing the end of the 3rd and final 3-3 game I was playing, I collided with someone, not even sure who, went to the ground, and was instantaneously in pain. Being a man, I got up and finished off the game on one leg.
I thought it was just a bone bruise, but as the day progresses, I feel my knee giving out. I cant walk straight, i cant bend my knee, i cant lift my leg. Basically i'm immobile. Yet, I did what every man would do in the situation. I went back to the gym to "stretch" out my knee and literally walk it off on the basketball court. Obviously, this is a stupid rational to use, but thats the type of dumb shit men do.
Being a future doctor, maybe, I made an initial diagnosis of a torn ligament in the knee, possibly a meniscus too. Given the severe symptons, the location, and progression, it seems like a definite ligament tear. I'll give it a couple days and probably go in for an MRI to confirm. Personally, I have never been immobilized for a substantial amount of time, such that I have no clue what i will do if i cant play sports daily. I may go insane for all I know. It's that important to me. Being the arrogant schmuck that I am, I actually thought I was immune to bone breaks and other severe sports related injuries. I've strained more muscles than i can count, but I thought my bones and joints were on the stronger side and I would really have to be in a freak accident to suffer such an injury. But given that I play 2 hours a day, every day, I guess I was due.
The only similar injury occurred to me freshman year of college. I recall the day quick well because that was the day my old druggy roommate was forced to move out of the dorms and go live with his parents. I helped him pack, then went to the hockey rink for a morning skate, and fell at a high speed right on my knee. Now I have fallen the exact same way hundreds of times before, but that specific fall cracked my knee cap. It really sucked because I had to go to an orchestra performance right after, which luckily was on the other side of campus. Lets just say I didnt skip-to-my-loo all the way there. You could see the bone break through the skin. It took nearly 4 months for the knee to completely heal, god I hope this injury doesnt take nearly as long. Damn it, just sitting here writing this post has made my knee stiffen up...thats what she said.
I thought it was just a bone bruise, but as the day progresses, I feel my knee giving out. I cant walk straight, i cant bend my knee, i cant lift my leg. Basically i'm immobile. Yet, I did what every man would do in the situation. I went back to the gym to "stretch" out my knee and literally walk it off on the basketball court. Obviously, this is a stupid rational to use, but thats the type of dumb shit men do.
Being a future doctor, maybe, I made an initial diagnosis of a torn ligament in the knee, possibly a meniscus too. Given the severe symptons, the location, and progression, it seems like a definite ligament tear. I'll give it a couple days and probably go in for an MRI to confirm. Personally, I have never been immobilized for a substantial amount of time, such that I have no clue what i will do if i cant play sports daily. I may go insane for all I know. It's that important to me. Being the arrogant schmuck that I am, I actually thought I was immune to bone breaks and other severe sports related injuries. I've strained more muscles than i can count, but I thought my bones and joints were on the stronger side and I would really have to be in a freak accident to suffer such an injury. But given that I play 2 hours a day, every day, I guess I was due.
The only similar injury occurred to me freshman year of college. I recall the day quick well because that was the day my old druggy roommate was forced to move out of the dorms and go live with his parents. I helped him pack, then went to the hockey rink for a morning skate, and fell at a high speed right on my knee. Now I have fallen the exact same way hundreds of times before, but that specific fall cracked my knee cap. It really sucked because I had to go to an orchestra performance right after, which luckily was on the other side of campus. Lets just say I didnt skip-to-my-loo all the way there. You could see the bone break through the skin. It took nearly 4 months for the knee to completely heal, god I hope this injury doesnt take nearly as long. Damn it, just sitting here writing this post has made my knee stiffen up...thats what she said.
WBS Doesn't Cuase Injuries... Well NOW Maybe
According to this article on ESPN.com, the WBC does not cause injuries.
There logic is because many players are healthy on Opening Day, during a WBC year, that the WBC does NOT cause injury
While I believe offensive players who get injured during the WBC could have just as easily gotten injured during a spring training game (i.e. sprained and sore muscles, David Wright fouling a pitch off of his foot), the same can not be said for pitchers.
The logic for pitchers is that because they put undue stress on their arms more so in a WBC year than a normal year, that as a season wears on, pitching during the WBC catches up with them. For example, a complaint heard about Carlos Marmol is that he's a reliever and he's supposed to pitch as least amount of innings as possible. Pitching a lot of inning in the WBC, means Marmol pitches WAY too much innings. Jake Peavy had one of his worst statistical years the year he pitched in the WBC, because extra innings means a shittier regular season.
So way to go MLB for proving your point! Awesome!
NEW YORK -- Baseball got healthy this spring.
There were 69 players on disabled lists at the start of the season Sunday, down from 106 last year and 97 in 2007. The only lower total since the major leagues expanded to 30 teams in 1998 was when there were 66 in 2006, the commissioner's office said Monday.
Rob Manfred, MLB's executive vice president of labor relations, said the figure counters those who say the World Baseball Classic causes more players to get hurt.
"It certainly does not support the theory that the WBC causes more injuries," Manfred said. "More important, the WBC injuries were, almost exclusively, the type of small injuries [oblique strains] that are common in spring training, with or without the WBC."
There logic is because many players are healthy on Opening Day, during a WBC year, that the WBC does NOT cause injury
While I believe offensive players who get injured during the WBC could have just as easily gotten injured during a spring training game (i.e. sprained and sore muscles, David Wright fouling a pitch off of his foot), the same can not be said for pitchers.
The logic for pitchers is that because they put undue stress on their arms more so in a WBC year than a normal year, that as a season wears on, pitching during the WBC catches up with them. For example, a complaint heard about Carlos Marmol is that he's a reliever and he's supposed to pitch as least amount of innings as possible. Pitching a lot of inning in the WBC, means Marmol pitches WAY too much innings. Jake Peavy had one of his worst statistical years the year he pitched in the WBC, because extra innings means a shittier regular season.
So way to go MLB for proving your point! Awesome!
WBC Injury+David Letterman
So I'm watching the Cuba v Mexico game on ESPN 2 and Cuban pitcher Jorge Vera seemingly injured himself on the mound. The manager came out, talked to Vera and I guess told him to work through it or something, because Vera stayed on the mound. Two pitches later, he collapsed in pain and had to be carried off the field
Classic pitcher abuse. I wonder if Dusty Baker is watching...
Anyone notice that Lindstrom, Braun, Chipper and Pedroia have all been injured on Team USA? Further proof that this stupid competition is useless.
On a related note, here is the funny clip from David Letterman detailing the top ten reasons to watch the WBC:
Classic pitcher abuse. I wonder if Dusty Baker is watching...
Anyone notice that Lindstrom, Braun, Chipper and Pedroia have all been injured on Team USA? Further proof that this stupid competition is useless.
On a related note, here is the funny clip from David Letterman detailing the top ten reasons to watch the WBC:
Ben "Mark Prior" Sheets Is Injured (Again)
According to MLB.com, Ben Sheets has a torn flexor tendon. Apparently, Sheets, prior to his Rangers physical, was unaware that his elbow was entirely fucked up -- so fucked up that it is going to require surgery. Meanwhile, the Brewers medical team found no such injury when Sheets was "inspected" back on December 8. So either sometime in the past 60 days, Sheets blew out his elbow not pitching and didn't tell anyone (in which case he's an asshole) or the Brewers knew something was wrong and didn't tell him (in which case the Brewers are a bunch of assholes). Of course, there is also the possibility that the Brewer's medical examiner is Dr. Nick Riviera. Somehow, however, I doubt an $80+ million team would hire shitty doctors to monitor and examine their players.
I have questions and demand answers:
1) If this injury, which is a serious one, was prevalent enough to not only be discovered by the Rangers, but also require surgery, how did the Brewers never catch it? Something here seems fishy.
2) If the Brewers DID know about the injury, why did they offer Sheets arbitration?
3) Should the Brewers be held responsible for paying for Sheet's injury if they were aware of the injury (which often requires expensive surgery to fix) and did not inform Sheets of it?
4) Did the Brewers know about the injury and hide it from Sheets because they knew a healthy Sheets would turn down their offer of arbitration and they wanted an extra first round draft pick?
5) If Sheets knew he was injured, wouldn't he have accepted the Brewers offer of arbitration? You know, so he'd get paid and not have to shell out the surgery money himself?
6) What could Sheets have possibly done to blow out his elbow in the past 60 days?
Something seems fishy here...
I have questions and demand answers:
1) If this injury, which is a serious one, was prevalent enough to not only be discovered by the Rangers, but also require surgery, how did the Brewers never catch it? Something here seems fishy.
2) If the Brewers DID know about the injury, why did they offer Sheets arbitration?
3) Should the Brewers be held responsible for paying for Sheet's injury if they were aware of the injury (which often requires expensive surgery to fix) and did not inform Sheets of it?
4) Did the Brewers know about the injury and hide it from Sheets because they knew a healthy Sheets would turn down their offer of arbitration and they wanted an extra first round draft pick?
5) If Sheets knew he was injured, wouldn't he have accepted the Brewers offer of arbitration? You know, so he'd get paid and not have to shell out the surgery money himself?
6) What could Sheets have possibly done to blow out his elbow in the past 60 days?
Something seems fishy here...
