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The title to this thread is a little misleading. He can start playing catch and throwing at 2 weeks. He won't be throwing of a mound until 4 weeks. So at 4 weeks he will begin building up pitching innings but his arm will already be conditioned for pitching.

I don't know if I would put Burdi there. The devastating injuries really got him and I don't know if you can always predict that.

No. I never said the rotation was fine. I said the bullpen was a greater weakness. After they signed players for the pen, I still would have focused more on pitching as opposed to acquiring a RF.

No doubt. Its an odd injury as I said. This is just my best guess obviously as they didn't give an exact diagnosis.

No if its what I think it is, it's not part of the joint so a scope won't work. It will be a small incision for the excision though. That's why Grandal was able to return in 6 weeks, I believe. Lynn will take a little longer to get his arm ready again with 2 weeks off.

2 out of 3 yes. That was one weakness. If only they would have gotten an SP as well. But Kimbrel and his 16 million were earmarked for an RF

I think it will be earlier than that. He should be pitching by 4. Building up his arm and he should rejoin the team at 8.

Don't worry. When he's playing he will have a cup on and his accessibility will be hampered.

It will only be 2 weeks of sitting around. Then the rehab will start and throwing at 4 weeks.

Bummer, Heuer.

Yes. I am assuming they will be a contender.

Yep. 4 weeks healing/rehab, another 3-4 of ramping up pitching. Healing time for nearly all muscle injuries is somewhere between 4-8 weeks. That's just physiologic healing.

For a totally different injury.

You know they will save some for the trade deadline acquisitions.

They could have gone with Vaughn, Sheets and Engel.

He needs a significant other?

With trading Kimbrel for a hitter, they don't have much room under the CBT for a quality starter.

Yes it would. A tendon repair is 8 weeks of healing and rehab minimum. A partial menicectomy would be a similar length to this. But they are both really just excision of tissue and healing.

This one really doesn't have much to do with the weight. That's more a joint issue.

Has to be that f'n plantaris and they are just going to excise it.

No. If he did something and they decided on surgery the next day, it wasn't thus. Thus organization has a very good medical staff. I wouldn't lump them with "something this organization would do." Like I said before, you could see it was something caused by the impact during that pitch.

Sounds about right

This is really odd. Maybe the same a Grandal from last year. You don't normally see surgery to a tendon only taking 4 weeks. It's obviously not a reconstruction. Maybe more of a debridement.

Interesting that he is having surgery for a slight tear in a tendon. That's odd.

I don't think salaries are being depressed maybe acquisitions but not salaries.