Here we go again. As if last year wasn't bad enough with the multitude of injuries, they are starting to mount yet again this season.
- Yunel Escobar strained an abdominal muscle on Thursday and might be out three or four games. These little nagging injuries are what slowed his last year.
- Chipper Jones has missed three games with a bruised left thumb, essentially he is unable to hit against right-handers.
- Jorge Campillo is experiencing "dead arm" and was placed on the 15-day DL. James Parr was called up to take his spot in the bullpen.
- Garret Anderson has missed time this year with a left oblique strain.
And this is just the second week of the season. What concerns me is that there might be more dead arm in that bullpen than just Campillo.
Not to mention Glavine
Chanman25 - April 16, 2009
So basically Prado, Infante, and Diaz fill in. Don’t care about Campillo or Glavine. At least it’s the Pirates coming up. Jair and Jo-Jo (preferably Morton) need to stop the bleeding.
TradeAndruw - April 16, 2009
That bullpen is full of dead arms.
sdp - April 16, 2009
Poor Yunel
The ribcage strain is going to make it hard to touch up those highlights.
Weldon - April 16, 2009
+1
Those are terrible.
buzzdeadwax - April 17, 2009
According to the AJ, Escobar hurt it doing that up and down jumping before he gets in the batters box. That sounds about right.
10-4 - April 16, 2009
*AJC
10-4 - April 16, 2009
That does sound about right. I always figured he’d blow an ACL doing that as he landed.
Sparhawk - April 16, 2009
If that's true
That goes right up there with Chipper reaching for his sunglasses, and Sammy Sosa sneezing his back out
royhobbs - April 17, 2009
all of them upset me but the last
I hope we cut GA and call up Borchard or B Jones.
nick9314 - April 16, 2009
I’d rather call up Manny Acosta and let Diaz play.
someguy917 - April 16, 2009
You honestly want Diaz to get 600 PAs?
Smoltz's Beard - April 16, 2009
yeah..
lets cut a guy who had 2 doubles today. sounds good to me. im sure the braves will get that done ASAP.
bravesfansc - April 17, 2009
and you suggest BORCHARD, of all people?
I don’t get it. I mean, a guy who has a proven track record, albeit one long enough to make him quite old, but still, or two guys who have never done anything at the major league level.
Weldon - April 17, 2009
Joe Borchard would win the triple crown if he were given 600 PA
bigjoe - April 17, 2009
In A ball…
cbwilk - April 17, 2009
i hope the whole team gets injured and they just move them to butte montana and turn them into a professional rodeo team
drdonkeypunch - April 16, 2009
This all sucks, but nice I’m happy for Parr. I always think it’s weird when I talk to a guy one day and the next he gets called up.
cbwilk - April 16, 2009
Justin Timberlake from 1998 called...
he wants Yunel to give him his blonde highlights back.
bravesfansc - April 17, 2009
zinger
bravesguy311 - April 17, 2009
Garrett Anderson stained his calf, not his oblique.
10-4 - April 17, 2009
damn, two on one post.
*strained
10-4 - April 17, 2009
And Chipper can’t hit against RIGHT handers…
volsandbraves - April 17, 2009
well, on the plus side...
None of those are season-ending injuries. More or less just normal tweaks that anyone could experience.
beeswax - April 17, 2009
somebody explain to me...
…why we call up Parr and Reyes who have ERA’s of 4.15 and 6.00 respectively (yes I know they only started 1 game so far – which they both lost) and yet we have Hanson with a sub-1 ERA and Morton both with more K’s than you can shake a stick at. What are we doing?
mwchipper - April 17, 2009
Because ERAs mean absolutely shit and it’s minor league and it’s JUST ONE start in minor leagues and Morton’s schedule start is today not tomorrow and the team does not want to start the arbitration clock on Hanson yet so what they are doing is calling up the lefty who pitched well in Spring Training whose spot was taken by an old guy who turns out can’t play anymore so the lefty is getting his rightful spot back and they’re calling up the righty with a not-dead arm to temporarily replace the WBC Mexican dead-armed pitcher
royhobbs - April 17, 2009
that was
a long sentence. but it makes sense, I just never think about the arbitration clock, blah blah blah, everything else. I just like to put the best team on the field so we have the best chance to win games. ERAs don’t really mean shit, it’s all about the wins and losses, but it is a tool we can use to judge pitchers’ performance. I believe I did mention in my post that, yes, they had only pitched in one game thus far, and I’m aware that Reyes pitched well in spring training – against a lot of minor leaguers – and still remember the farce that was his major league career to date. I don’t think he gives us our best chance to win. I hate when the business of baseball interferes with winning baseball games, like choosing not to bring up a deserving young player only to keep his arbitration clock un-wound. that just doesn’t put W’s on the board.
mwchipper - April 17, 2009
I rest my case
5 runs in 5 2/3 innings. Jo-Jo needs to go-go bye-bye…
mwchipper - April 18, 2009
/facepalm
Smoltz's Beard - April 17, 2009
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