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Post by Evil Yoda on Apr 30, 2016 20:18:20 GMT -5
A "groin issue". Chant is, he might need sports hernia surgery, which would shut him down for ~4 weeks; this is an increasingly common surgery. ArticleMore unfortunate news from a system that is horrendous at developing pitchers.
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Post by Evil Yoda on May 2, 2016 21:41:00 GMT -5
Harvey will have sports hernia repair surgery. Article (near the end; the article is mostly about J. J. Hardy's foot injury)
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 18, 2016 13:16:49 GMT -5
Hunter Harvey left his last start early with forearm soreness. He will have an MRI today.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 21, 2016 17:10:23 GMT -5
Hunter Harvey will have Tommy John surgery on July 26. For a shocker, it won't be James Andrews wielding the scalpel, but a guy named Donald D'Alessandro in South Carolina.
I wish I was surprised, but this organization? No. Rick Peterson does not impress.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 1:14:41 GMT -5
Peterson gets mixed reviews. He's largely credited for developing Oakland's Big Three of Barry Zito, Tim Hudson, and Mark Mulder, but later, he was also the guy who, while serving as pitching coach for the Mets, claimed he could fix Victor Zambrano in 10 minutes while Scott Kazmir was still three years away (from the big leagues). That proved to one of the worst trades in Met history as Zambrano struggled mightily with the Mets while Kazmir was quickly promoted by Tampa Bay.
Peterson has introduced biomechanics to the Orioles minor league system in order to help pitchers develop. Ironically, one of its main focuses is on mitigating the risk of injury, which seemed to have the opposite effect in the case of Harvey. Injuries are part of baseball, particularly with pitchers, and the Orioles aren't the only team to see prized prospects or even established pitchers go down.
Texas, for example, which currently leads the AL West, has seen three-fifths of its starting rotation land on the DL. Yu Darvish, who underwent Tommy John surgery last year, just came back after yet another stint on the DL. Colby Lewis, who was having a career year, is out with a lat injury and shouldn't expected back until late August. Derek Holland is out with shoulder inflammation and is now on the 60-day DL.
No matter when or where they happen, it just confirms the baseball maxim that there is nothing so fragile than a pitcher's arm.
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Post by mmmbeer on Jul 22, 2016 7:21:25 GMT -5
maybe someone who knows more about it can answer this. From what I've read, sidearm or submarine doesn't put as much strain on the arm. The Os have a few relievers pitching effectively from that slot. Is there a reason you don't see it more with SP? Is it as simple as you can't throw as hard if you don't come over the top?
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 22, 2016 11:00:41 GMT -5
Peterson has been with a great many teams. That is not usually a good sign when considering an expert.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 0:20:15 GMT -5
Peterson has been with a great many teams. That is not usually a good sign when considering an expert. Branch Rickey was with a number of clubs during his long baseball career, but The Mahatma is still regarded as the dean of baseball executives. (And no, I'm not saying that Peterson is the pitching coach equivalent of Branch Rickey.)
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 23, 2016 10:58:30 GMT -5
Well, we'll see. Certainly I appear to be have been delightfully wrong about Bundy, who I assumed would never pitch effectively at the majors. I'm not calling him (or Gaus) an ace, yet - to me, that requires several consecutive years of excellent work (and allowing for time lost to injuries). But both men now show promise.
I still contend that an organizational wide policy against a particular pitch is silliness. That has to be decided for each individual pitcher. And there is no way Duquette should be micromanaging at that level, if he is.
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