Archive for the tag 'Carlos Zambrano'

Injury News and Analysis September 7th

Carlos Quentin

Surprise surprise, it’s not the forearm it’s the wrist. This is just another reason why we cannot always believe what the team tells us regarding an injuries health. He’s going to have a screw inserted into the wrist in order to help facilitate healing. While I am not 100% suggesting this is the case, often surgical fixation is needed for scaphoid fractures. The scaphoid bone…
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Injury News and Analysis August 31st

Chipper Jones

After my article on my site Fantasy Baseball Strategy described how many athletes hide injuries, Chipper is being reported to have several nagging injuries, including Quad, Hamstring, and elbow problems.  He is an example of an athlete who at times may be too tough for his own good.  Most likely his current elbow problem is related to all of his other problems and likely will not go…
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Injury News and Analysis

Football draft. Check. Pre-season practices starting for work. Check. Me losing whatever sense I had left. Check. On to the injuries:

Alex Gordon

Alex tore his upper quad most likely the Rectus Femoris muscle. I say this because initially it was described as a groin injury by various places and then quickly switched to the quad tear once it was released. The only muscle of…
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What makes an elite pitcher so good using Pitch FX.

I have a new article that examines this very topic over at Fantasy Baseball Strategy and I found a few interesting differences.

  1. The first one may not be that surprising but elite pitchers have a higher avereage velocity than other groups of pitchers which carries over to the off-speed and breaking pitches as well.
  2. The movement on the elite pitches are greater, in some case much greater, movement

Injury News and Analysis July 6th

Ryan has graciously been doing the daily injury news in between my posts. Here is another action packed several days in terms of injury news so let’s get right to it.

  1. Elijah Dukes will miss at least 4-6 weeks after suffering a meniscal tear as well as a partial tear of the patellar tendon. This is a rather serious injury especially if the meniscal tear needs to be

Injury News & Analysis - June 29, 2008

Mark Mulder

Mulder came off of the DL but sent to bullpen as their left handed specialist for the immediate time being. He has basically lost the last two seasons due to Expect nothing from him fantasy wise because he’s going to be a left-handed specialist.

Jason Isringhausen

Isringhausen went to DL (or likely will) because of feeling a pop in his knee while stretching in the dugout on Thursday. He said…
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Injury News & Analysis - June 22, 2008

First I’d like to thank Ryan and Andy for allowing me to become a part of their wonderful site. I’m going to be writing about injury news and analysis twice a week (Sunday and Wednesday evenings) providing a summary of the injury news from the last several days, while providing Pitch FX analysis and Buy Low/Sell High recommendations on my site. When the need arises, I will also…
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