Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
As a doctor, you know surgery is the most extreme medical solutions and typically a last resort. I get why people try to avoid. Plenty of people who are not MLB pitchers do what they can to avoid it. We as fans get frustrated because we know how it usually ends anyway. But honestly, in the same position, I would do everything I could to avoid surgery...
This isn't standard medicine. This isnt like a gallbladder or appendix issue where the problems are more apparent and recovery path more concrete. This isn't a 40 year old soft ball player on weekends who has a mild tear who will just rest it and suck it up. This is a professional athlete who is able to use his arm to throw a baseball 98 mph. That is not normal. The UCL keeps the elbow together, for lack of a better term. If it is partially torn, frayed, whatever you want to call it, then surgery is your FASTEST option to get back to prior performance. This is a prime athlete who needs to weigh the risks and benefits of lost prime years to his earning potential. If he rests, rehabs, goes through the throwing programs and tears it late in the season, then he loses all of next year too. If he goes under the knife now, he has less risk of losing all of next year.
Here is how I look at it. He is now cooked for the next 3-4 months at a minimum. Now we are into July best case. He is already staring at a lost half season with recovery being uncertain thereafter. By the time he returns, Sale is back, so he isn't an option at the big league level at the outset anyway, so he is gonna be in the minors. If all things work swimmingly, he is looking at a month or two of starting in the minors and maybe, just maybe he can find a way to crack the rotation next year, provided his elbow doesnt explode or his stuff doesnt drop. That is best case, and as we have seen over, and over, and over again, the best case rarely if ever happens. The likelihood is he rests, rehabs, gets PRP, works his way back, pitches in a few games on the minor league level and has return of pain. Then, he gets his TJS in July or August and loses all of 2022 as well.
Need I remind you how many times I am right on these things?
Last edited by jacksonianmarch; 03-07-2021 at 11:52 AM.
Hal sucks
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Top Trade Value of Sox Prospects according to BTV:
24 Casas
21 Downs
14 Duran
14 Hernandez (C)
11 Jimenez
8 Yorke
6 Houck
5 Seabold, Ward, Lugo
4 Groome, Song
3 Rosario, Wong, Murphy, Decker
2 Bonaci, Jordan, Potts, Gonzalez, Lopez, Ramirez, Bello, Cannon, Rafaela
1 Koss, Feliz, Flores,Marcan, Vaughn, Wilson, Whitlock, Liu, Espin, Howlett, Wallace, Politi, Brannen, Northcut, Celluci, Drohan, German, Gettys, Reed, Wu-Yelland (0.6 and below not listed)
Last edited by moonslav59; 03-08-2021 at 04:08 PM.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Scouting Reports on Jimenez, Yorke & Bazardo...
http://news.soxprospects.com/2021/03...-gilberto.html
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?