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Yep. Painful when it pops but an easy one to come back from

While plantains are tasty especially fried, it was autocorrect from plantaris.

Yes. Autocorrect, typing quickly

This is an easy one as it tears off and won't cause issues in the future. He shouldn't have any set backs with this one.

It's really part of the calf but it has an attachment above the lateral console in the knee. So it is the original injury. A plantaris rupture.

If they thought it was the calf but it's the knee, it's most likely the plantaris. Luckily not a significant muscle. Just hurts. It's commonly used for spare parts for other tendon reconstructions.

In reality the teams know this. Rarely do things like this get people fired. It's usually a change of FO wants to bring in their own people. I only know of someone getting fired for one incident. A friend of mine was the trainer for the Blue Jays during the WS run in the 90's. Ricky henderson fouled a ball off his foot in a game. The trainer had him stand on an ice pack then something else happened and he had to leave for awhile. Ricky stood on the ice pack for over an hour and got ice burns on his foot and couldn't play well. not good.

No thanks. Did my time there. I realize I can't call it grueling but life in the MLB schedule sucks.

The athletic training staff is quite a bit different. The strength and conditioning staff is similar though.

The vast majority of a throw in any sport comes from the lower extremity transferring force through the trunk to the upper body. Arm strength and build has very little to do with it. Arm muscle strength and velocity of throwing have minimal correlation.

You can make tendons stronger. Similar to all tissues like muscle and bones they hypertrohphy when placed under graduated stress. This is the process for rehab for someone like Jimenez after re-attaching to tendons. It also works in healthy subjects. All tissues can increase in tensile strength. The only time there is too much muscle for the tendon is in abnormal muscle growth as in PEDS. Now injuries occur when the external forces are greater then the internal structures ability to absorb it. In most cases the tendon has been weakened by a previous injury and has progressed from tendinitis to tendinopathy where the is a cellular breakdown of the tendon. The tendon can be built back up through proper rehab. Unfortunately, it is nowhere near as simplistic as you make it. With your bridge someone built it from material that can ba easily made and examined and be replaced quite easily. The human body has many tissue that can't be replicated, seen nor easily examined. Working with players in this case is a lot of educated guessing due to these factors. We are getting better at the science but it really is still the practice of medicine. Another factor to consider is that since it really is a league wide issue, if you fire the staff, who will you hire? Everyone will be fired and there aren't enough experienced professionals to go around.

Will do. However, it is getting a lot of attention so I imagine it will be out in the media quite a bit.

I wouldn't think so. It's not only the Sox, its the whole league. The severity seems to be worse with Jimenez and Madrigal rupturing the tendons off the bone but I'm not sure you can control for that. I think both Engel and Grandal came back too soon. It may show the reasons why if someone gets fired or not.

That's been a working hypothesis of mine for the past month or so. Prior to the season my answer would have been that it didn't make a difference and the rest may help the position players. However, the league wide massive increase in muscle injuries has changed my thoughts on it. While it's by no means a sure bet, that is one of the significant difference between this year and past years injury rates.

That's about the average for most significant muscle injuries, unless there is a tendon rupture which this team seems to be good at.

The first one i saw and i thought it should have been a minimum of 5 days. The athletic trainers don't always have the proper information. The player has to report it properly. Players have been known to down play injuries from either wanting to come back or influence from manager, coaching, FO

Sorry, I didn't see the whole thread. just jumping on from some comments.

I didn't see it but calf injuries are tough especially for a catcher. It should be at least 4 weeks. Probably 6-8.

They have 3 starters that were expected before the season started. Amazing.

If it is a calf strain for Grandal, that's 5 days at least for a catcher.

Good call.

I thought the 8th and 9th were the umps call.

From reading all if these you would have thought that it was bases loaded and no one out. I looked online and he allowed one base runner

As the saying goes beat the bad teams ay 500 against the good ones. That's what they are doing. By the playoffs they will have at least Jimenez back and most likely Robert back to help the offense and power .

Common for sprinters as they need speed from the pushers.