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Could be a BPPV benign paraoximal positional vertigo where he only has issues with his head in certain positions. The looking up over his shoulder in the OF would do it.

Another thought is the significant number of lower extremity and abdominal injuries. This will rob players of power. I wonder if that is part of it. Moncada missed a great deal of time early with the oblique injury and leg injuries later. TA, Robert, Grandal, Jimenez, Engel and Pollock have all missed significant time with leg injuries. Vaughn has missed time with a back injury.

Excellent analysis. This approach was instituted for the team for a reason. Two that I can think of are: 1. They thought that pulling the ball less would make for a more consistent offense, maybe score fewer runs overall but win more if there is more consistency. 2. The rumored change in the ball was going to decrease the HR numbers a great deal so they would "get ahead of the curve" by instituting the different philosophy and win more. Neither is currently happening so the offense looks lost.

And a Cuban sandwich. That's my go to at the park.

Usually people on this board aren't a fan of high floor lower stuff pitchers. I like the control pitchers.

That and only 62 innings in his 2 years of college.

Similar to Crochet with very few innings pitched in college. At least he'll have the advantage of a year of rehab before beginning his career.

At least it happened early. He'll be ready on time for next year.

That is a really low arm slot. Everything else looks fairly clean though. That is a great deal of elbow stress.

Mono can be worse. It can really change someone's endurance. It has ruined careers if runners. That's why his performance after returning was so important.

I don't think so. I think they will keep the good defensive, LHH catcher.

These comments are somewhat if a misnomer.He is being evaluated daily but they are giving him time to recover. Really what they are saying us, he is still having issues. We want him to take time off until Monday to help the symptoms resolve. On Monday we will determine if he can ay again.

I disagree. I think they are trying to build him up and will have more time off in the second half. I dont think he'll get to 150. That's probably a little high.

Not saying that. Just saying that wasn't part if Herm's job description.

Trying to build stamina after hitting his previous high in innings?

Herm Schneider had nothing to do with their conditioning. He was the athletic trainer. He took care of them after injuries. Strength and conditioning staff is responsible for conditioning.

I disagree about the MO of the FO. They showed they would DFA a player if needed in Keuchal. The more pressing is who would trade for a catcher with a bad knee and spine?

Talent wise I don't think there is a question. However the most important ability is availability and they both may have an advantage over Jimenez.

Reasonable considering the surgery and short rehab it's where it should be. Not great but where it should be.

It's not the media as none of them have the knowledge to ask appropriate questions for most medical conditions. It's the team itself. I've known a few physicians that were bad that were professional team physicians. After Grandal had his issues after this surgery, it's should have been evaluated for efficacy regardless of the team physician recommendation.

That can't be the case here. A complete tear takes 2-3 months minimum to heal like Madrigal. This is what confused me from the beginning. What type of tendon/muscle injury requires surgery and they return in 4-6 weeks? I speculated it was a different tendon other than the hamstring due to the timeframe but I was obviously wrong because later on they did specify it was hamstring. I've never seen seen a repair surgery for a hamstring injury other than an avulsion. That doesn't necessarily mean anything as new procedures are always coming around and they are used with athletes who make the high dollar but I can't find anything on it in the literature databases either

I would really like to know what the injuries were and why it was determined they needed the surgeries.

This isn't true for general hamstring injuries. However the surgery is an entirely different situation. I still have never seen one of these and don't know anyone else who has had one other than the 3 from this team.

Surgically repaired muscles are very difficult to manage.

Got one of his autographed game worn jerseys from that year