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Nate Jones has Tommy John surgery


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QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 30, 2014 -> 03:41 PM)
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.

 

 

"Dan Hayes of CSN Chicago tweets that Jones, who was on the disabled list recovering from a back injury, tore his ulnar collateral ligament while ramping up his rehab from his previous injury."

 

That one sure flew under the radar.

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QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jul 30, 2014 -> 03:44 PM)
"Dan Hayes of CSN Chicago tweets that Jones, who was on the disabled list recovering from a back injury, tore his ulnar collateral ligament while ramping up his rehab from his previous injury."

 

That one sure flew under the radar.

 

Wow. Nate Jones now is going to lose pretty much two full years of baseball. That sucks.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 30, 2014 -> 04:35 PM)
Big decision now for the front office whether they want to pay him for another year of non-activity.

 

There's no decision to be made. You don't non-tender that kind of arm. If the Sox are lucky, he's back by July or August of next year, knocks off some of the rust, and is ready to go full time again in 2016.

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Well, considering we've always wanted to avoid paying relievers in arbitration since the Jenks years...and we're not even sure if he is going to be capable of being a high-quality 7th and 8th inning set-up guy in 2016, I'd say it's an interesting decision.

 

Since the White Sox have adopted the philosophy that they can turn someone else's junk (Guerra, Noesi, Carroll, Belisario, Putnam, Cleto, Boggs, H.Rodriguez) into a bullpen piece, I'd say it's 50/50 at best they keep him.

 

If he was left-handed and this was Matt Thornton after his first couple of seasons with the Sox, there would be no question about it. Otoh, Nate came up with the White Sox through our system, so there's going to be more of a likelihood to be "loyal."

 

That said, baseball is a business and it's not only a UCL, it's the back issue, which we don't know a whole lot about. Can we be 100% sure his mechanics weren't/aren't going to be thrown off in the future compensating for back issues and putting undue stress on another part of the body. That's basically what happened with the Marlins' young ace, unfortunately.

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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 30, 2014 -> 03:36 PM)
There's no decision to be made. You don't non-tender that kind of arm. If the Sox are lucky, he's back by July or August of next year, knocks off some of the rust, and is ready to go full time again in 2016.

 

Not only that, but this has "good Samaritan" Jerry Reinsdorf written all over it.....you know JR probably feels horrible for the kid and will do anything he can do to accommodate him.

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