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To show that the Sox can play with some of the best teams in baseball. Regardless of what all of the media and fans who insist "its just reality"are shouting.

Maybe but again you do everything you can to try to keep them as starters. Always go to long than move them too soon.

Yep. Unless they score more in the 8th.

Hate to tell him this but the path will be the same as before. He is not going to automatically be a full time starter just because he had a UCL reconstruction. He'll still need to build up innings from the beginning.

Starters are more valuable. Do everything you can to keep them as a starter Ala Crochet.

You'll be there too one day.

Hitting in Charlotte does wonders for offensive numbers.

Stretching is not really done much anymore as it's been shown to increase muscle injuries. The dynamic warmup is much more effective.

Don't know if I would call it load management when there is an injury involved.

Let's not forget Brandon McKay Kip Bouknight Jason Jennings Khalil Greene Mike Zunino

Muscles weaken with age, grips change now that there is no sticky stuff. There is reason for concern but not necessarily doom and gloom but that is the default setting for this board.

It was a joke.

It changed with the latest CBA. There are now a finite number of times (5 I believe) that a players can be brought up and sent down in a season.

Maybe they were counting on not having to pay it all and let insurance cover it.

Actually if he has it he knows what he feels like, it's a good sign.

Good article. A year out makes sense for a correlation to the forearm strain.

Was that at the time of initial incident or long term down the road?

No

Most likely. But that isn't always a sure thing. It is the practice of medicine not the science of medicine. We aren't always correct.

Probably. They always tell the story of how loose the ligament maybe though.

Hand is probably still swollen.

That's what is commonly done when the closer is ready to go. Otherwise he may not be available the next day anyway.

Mr. Semantics. That's what you do when the most important piece of the pen is ready. Otherwise they may have burned him for the next day depending on his previous load.

Really? It scares the crap out of me when he's optimistic.

You know they wouldn't have used Hendricks in the situation where Souza failed.