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Entries Tagged as 'Injuries'
Fireworks spark Encarnacion injury
Sounds like Blue Jay Edwin Encarnacion suffered a facial injury in a fireworks accident over the New Year’s holiday down in the D.R.
Encarnacion suffered first- and second-degree burns in the forehead and the right side of his face when a rocket firecracker hit him in the jaw and exploded near his mouth while celebrating with family in his home of La Romana.
Every off season, it seems there is one freak accident that affects a major league ballplayer. 1999 Moises Alou, anyone? In Encarnacion’s case it doesn’t seem too serious, though.
Hopefully, it won’t mess with his pretty face. Other than that, it doesn’t sound like it will affect his baseball playing abilities and he won’t require surgery. The 27 year old will be back as new by spring training.
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Some Injuries Are Legit, Others Are ???
Guillermo Mota is on the DL due to an ingrown toenail. While Aaron Boone, expected to be out for the season, heart surgery, is back playing ball. Then there’s Adrian Beltre, on the shelf with a severely contused right testicle. Suffering from depression is Scott Schoenweis, his wife was found dead in their apartment.
But those aren’t the strangest injuries in the history of our national pastime, here are a few, from Strange Injuries (Baseball World), click here to see the complete list.
In 1972 Jose Cardenal missed a game because crickets chirping in his hotel room kept him up all night. Charlie Hough broke his pinky finger, shaking hands. David Cone missed a start when his mother-in-law’s Jack Russell Terrier bit him. Carlos Perez broke his nose in a car accident, while trying to pass the team bus. My personal faves are Rickey Henderson missing time due to frostbite in August and Vince Coleman missing the 1985 World Series after getting rolled up in the tarp machine.
Prior finished?
The San Diego Padres gave Mark Prior his walking papers. After a last failed rehab stint, The Prior Experiment is over. Finally.
I’ve never been a real Prior fan. Even when he was with the Cubs, he never thrilled me. His lack of fire for the game not to mention his continual trips to the disabled list didn’t endear me to him.
Back in the day, many non-Cub fans would lump Prior in with Kerry Wood. Both were talented pitchers with potential but were prone to injury. In my mind, the similarities stopped there. Wood played with much more passion and identified with the team. (Wood had another thing going for him too. He was a favorite of GM Jim Hendry).
So when there were rumblings a few years back of a Prior trade (one rumor had him going to the Orioles for Miguel Tejada), I was all for it. A lot of my friends thought I was nuts but all I saw was a pitcher who had one great year in 2003 and hadn’t backed it up since. I was ready for a change.
Prior got a lot of media press and attention from the fans after his 2003 season but all told, he just won 18 games in the next three seasons.
Bitter? Not much.
Prior got his chance with the Padres. It just wasn’t going happen. Will another team take a chance on him? I highly doubt it.
Personal note to Cubs management: Don’t Think About It!
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Strange Cub injuries
Here’s a mildly interesting slideshow of Strange but true Cubs injuries in recent history.
…brought to by none other than KPLR-11 TV based in, you guess it, St Louis.
The timing is impeccable.
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Kill the Ump, Bat Almost Does
Home plate umpire Kerwin Danley was carted off the field on a stretcher in the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s Toronto-Texas game after being struck in the head by a broken bat shard as Hank Blalock followed through on his swing. Danley immediately collapsed to the turf and Blue Jays catcher Rob Barajas motioned to the dugout for help as Blalock’s soft infield popper was caught by shortstop Marco Scutaro. Starter Roy Halladay and a few other players huddled around as both trainers came to attend to Danley. All players cleared the field shortly after.
Blalock’s bat shattered at the handle as he made contact and the barrel flew out his hands at full speed into Danley’s mask. The game was delayed 10 minutes as Danley was taken off field. Hunter Wendelstedt moved form second base to behind home plate.
I wrote about this incident, which occurred April 15, 2008. Maple is a harder wood, and many players swear by it these days. But there’s a reason maple wasn’t used in the first place. While ash cracks under pressure, maple shatters, sending shards of sharp wood everywhere. In the dugout of a game on April 15 in Los Angeles, the maple bat of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Nate McClouth bat shattered on a hit and a piece of the bat flew into the dugout, opening a huge gash in the cheek of his hitting coach, Don Long. “Didn’t see it at all,” Long told Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. “It just hit me. I backed up. I saw the blood coming out on the card I keep and on my shoes.” The piece of maple cut nerves in Long’s cheek and a doctor had to remove the wood before he sewed in 10 stitches. Who will be next? Perhaps a player or an umpire or, worse yet, a fan. And studies show very little difference between ash and maple in performance. What will happen next? A movement is afoot to either ban maple or at least change the shape of the bat handle.
When will baseball do something about this dangerous situation? I know the ash borer beetle has taken its toll on quality ash bats, but something needs to be done about maple bats shattering before somebody gets killed.
Hill to skip his first start with Orioles
Hmm. Baltimore Oriole and former Cub Rich Hill was scratched from his start today.
It was due to “stiffness in his left elbow” and it’s “just precautionary”.
And so begins his time with the Orioles. Any bets on how long before he sees time with their farm teams?
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Injuries abound early in 2009
Every year it’s the same but more. Earlier and earlier, injuries are taking their toll on the players. Reading the baseball news is like a who’s who in the injury report. Santana, Wood, Bonderman, the list goes on…
Now we hear Boof Bonser is out for 2009.
Milton Bradley barely made it out of the dugout in the first game before coming out because of tightness in his quad. (To add insult to injury, Mark DeRosa is off to a good start, with a homerun under his belt).
Granted, some of these are not serious and for the most part precautionary moves to prevent something that would impact their teams down the road. That said, playing these kind of games this early in the (pre-) season doesn’t bode well for any (ok, most) teams who have to deal with this.
Query: How much does steroids (or maybe, the withdrawal of steroids) have to do with increase of injuries in the MLB right now?
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Sheets out for the year?
What a conundrum!
“We’re working our way through all of the details and we don’t know the answer yet,” (Brewers’ Assistant GM Gord) Ash said. “Major League Baseball has regulations related to workers’ comp and there are procedures and protocols that have to be respected. We’re working our way through those so I can’t give you much insight other than that.”
I don’t why but this song popped into my head when I read about this. Just replace “Maria” with “Ben Sheets”.
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Crede gone from the Sox?
The downside of having Boras as an agent? Or just a side effect?
His locker has been cleared out… nameplate been taken down. Joe who?
"He’s not going be here for a little while," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "I don’t expect him to be back soon, at least playing. He’s not going to miss [time] playing and all of a sudden come here and play. That’s not fair for him, that’s not fair for the ballclub."
Dang, I bet Mariotti would have had something poignant to write about it.
It’s one of situations where even though it IS his free agent season, you still don’t want things to end this way.
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