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Interesting. I consider Grandal a pretty good hitter.

Yep, many of my daughters teammates are hanging around for the 6th COVID year. They missed many meets.

You think Grandal and Pollock are that bad of hitters? And that McGuire is a better option?

I don't think this will totally happen. You may see it fir the 4th and 5th starter. Bit can you see limiting scherzer or Giolito to 3 innings?

Let's see what the sepnding is like after 5 years. That's when the tax advantages of buying the team end and the real owner shows up.

On this you are correct. There are far too many issues with the same players. Something needs too be done with their off season training program.

Just because you can do the activity doesn't mean it's 100%. As I said the tissue is about 80-85% after 8weeks. So it's fully functional but not 100%. The rest of the healing time a long time. Ligaments especially may never get there with certain types of injuries. The people who don't take care of themselves have the reinjuries because it's not healed 100%. If you take care of it, you don't reinjure it but it still isn't healed 100%.

Just because you don't feel anything doesn't mean the tissue has healed 100%. There is a difference between the tissue being functional and it being 100%. Ever known someone with recurring back pain? It may not be always debilitating but it never heals 100% and they injure it again.

Anyone whose played hockey that will have an interesting injury. I ruptured my PCL 39 years ago. The primary problem there is the laxity. It's one of the primary rotational stabilizers of the knee. Finally had enough hyaline cartilage damage that I had surgery in an attempt to avoid a total knee replacement. PCL injuries are one for which they still can't come up with effective surgery. Only 50% have favorable outcomes.

That's fine. I'll stick with my nearly 40 years of working in sports medicine.

That's physiology. That's just the way it is. No one is different there. Tissue heals the way tissue heals. As I said people return to activities long before the tissue is 100%. Depending on the injury sometimes the tissue will never heal to 100% of the strength it was. There is a difference between being able to return to activities and when the tissue is at 100% of its original tensile strength. Having someone return to activities is all about determining when they can do it at the expected performance level relative to the risk of reinjuring the tissue.

As John Kruk said, lady I ain't no athlete I'm a baseball player. Seems you agree with him. I however would take guys like Robert, Engel, Moncada and Pollock. But as I said to each his own.

To each his own. I guess you are just a better athlete than all of these players who are constantly getting injured.

Most likely Katz. Trying to continue to work in endurance for kopech up to 90 pitches.

I don't disagree but there is nothing thr Sox can do about it. Anything they do is just useless. Either do something about it or move on.

Yes, because telling him that will make all the difference.

Steve Sax, Chuck knoblach.

For once we agree on something. This is me 100%.

No it's the weather.

Didn't know that. It's awesome.

Football is rough but other than WR and CB, there isn't much explosive type motions like baseball. Trying to go from a stand still to full speed is stressful. He just stood around at first. You can play a lot of games if that all you do.

At first base. He wasn't flying around the OF trying to make up for the lack of range of the other OF.

I would agree for the players who aren't "injury prone" I think players do need time off more mental than physical but the target should be at in the 140s I also get that part if the strategy is to keep the bench involved and somewhat sharp as they will be needed when the starters go down. All of this is magnified by the abbreviated spring training which we predicted would increase injuries. The primary issue though is guys like Robert, Jimenez and moncada need to have significant changes to their off season training.

I think it's obvious from the number of soft tissue injuries that there is something wrong with his off season training.

Go check physiology. Tissues don't heal fully 100% for nearly 10-12 months. It heals well enough for activity in 6-8 weeks but again it's about 85% or so. Muscles are muscles, ligaments a re ligaments. If they are sprinting 100% it doesn't matter if it's to first base, after a fly ball, scoring a goal or catching a pass. Baseball isn't a rough sport but the act act of going from standing still to full speed as in hitting or defense is a stressful act. It's not load management when it's recovering from injury, it's common sense.