Well this is likely going to be the final twice weekly post for the injury news and analysis since the regular season will be wrapping up. I will definitely be posting important news throughout the post-season and off-season as it comes up regarding injuries. This year we have seen an increase in the number of injuries but it seems a lot worse based on who it effected. I’d like to thank…
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Frank Thomas
Quad problems for very large DHs are not good. Especially one who has had several injuries in the past. Thomas has been transferred to the 60-Day DL, officially ending his season today. He still has the bat to be productive when healthy, but that’s the problem. He’s now (or maybe has been in for a while) in the group of Milton Bradley and Chipper Jones…
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Let’s start off with the big names
Joba Chamberlain
I don’t have all the details (since it wasn’t released) but I did watch the replays on ESPN and he was pointing to an area where the rotator cuff is often injured when strained. This is a slightly different pain pattern/location than impingement or inflammation and also telling in that it was quite a quick exit. …
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Man there have been a lot of injuries lately, some severe some not. I’m going to have to look over some numbers to see if there is any pattern year to year. Until then, let’s go over the new injuries and injury news.
Khalil Greene
Storage Chest 1, Khalil Greene 0. Along with Troy Tulowitzski this has to be one of the dumb injuries that will end up…
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Yup lots of injuries, 2 of which likely directly effected the World Series.
Chipper Jones
Chipper was placed on the DL for his strained Hamstring, but in actuality it was probably a combination of the hamstring and all of the other leg ailments he has had this season. He’s likely going to be on the DL for at least a few weeks, but that’s what you expected when you drafted him.
Tim Hudson
Another…
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A lot of news revolving around the Yankees/Red Sox series tonight, as Joba Chamberlain took his real first step forward to becoming a dominating starter as he went into Fenway Park and shutout the Sox over seven innings and struck out nine. Chamberlain is going to have a big finish to the season, so I would test his value in a trade (don’t…
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Sorry for the delay in posting folks, not the best night on the baby front! Lots of tears! But enough about that, let’s get to baseball!
If you would have told me in April that on June 7th I would have written the following sentence I would have said you were crazy, but here goes. Twins OF Delmon Young connected on his first home run of the…
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