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Kopech will be starting in a few weeks. He will get the innings.

Sore hand?

Yep I've seen some back pretty quickly. I'm sure with a catcher they are going to be a little more conservative because of the way the knee and ankle need to bend when squatting. Of course this is all my guess as to what's going on based on the available information. It could be the politeus behind the knee but he would most likely be out longer and the calf issue doesn't make sense.

The Sox don't have very many healthy ones left.

It's usually the attachment of the muscle above the femoral condyle but it can be the attachment with the achilles. I'm guessing since they called it a tendon in the knee that it was the proximal part.

It's a small thin tendon that runs along with the gastroc and the soleus. It has a muscle attachment above the condyle of the knee and runs down to the achilles tendon just like the others. Anatomically there is no real decision on what the small muscle does with the other bigger ones there. Clinically, it really hurts when it pops off but there is no functional loss without it. Sometimes it's used a a UCL replacement during Tommy John surgery if the patient doesn't have a palmaris longus which many don't. It' basically body spare parts.

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.