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Update On Sheets' Injury
ESPN's Buster Olney swapped emails with Ben Sheets' agent, Casey Close. According to Close:
"His forearm muscle [strain] was the equivalent of a hamstring pull and it simply needed time to rest. No real treatment was needed. He's fine and should be 100 percent in a month."
Olney says execs are skeptical. Obviously they will conduct their own tests to confirm a lack of structural damage. My guess is that the skepticism will wane once a few big names leave the board. Jason Schmidt's three-year, $47MM deal from '06 could be the model for Sheets, even though that deal worked out terribly for the Dodgers.
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Too bad for Sheets, his injury happened at the worst possible time for the Brewers and for his next contract. Hopefully though it will give GM's pause so they won't rush out and sign such an injury risk to some stupid contract. I wonder if Ned Colletti has learned his lesson yet? My guess is that Sheets ends up in Houston, and not just because Ed Wade is dumb enough to give Sheets stupid money.
Posted by: pageian | October 08, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Or Ned Colletti makes the same mistake again, of course. I do see Sheets in Houston.
Hopefully he recovers and pitches well. I've always liked the guy.
Posted by: melonis rex | October 08, 2008 at 11:21 AM
I like the Astros for Sheets too. McLane is craziest enough to never give up, most of these win-now moves that Ed Wade has made are because McLane wants the team to always be contending.
The scary thing is that a lineup with Berkman, Tejada, Lee, Pence, Wigginton, and Matsui, a solid bullpen, and a rotation of Oswalt, Sheets, Rodriguez, Backe, FA Signing (Wolf? Byrd?) could actually contend.
Posted by: scribbletone | October 08, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Not only will they contend but they'll be favorites for the wild Card.
Posted by: yankfan1 | October 08, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Yes, if they sign Sheets, and he is healthy, I would put them at finishing 2nd in the division and right there in wildcard talks with AZ and whoever from the east.
Posted by: Aduncaroo | October 08, 2008 at 02:49 PM
The see Sheets with the Astros too...They'll offer him a 3 year contract and he'll accept because he won't get any better offer anywhere else.
Posted by: JT89 | October 08, 2008 at 02:57 PM
Part of me was just disgusted the way Sheets finished. How about the game vs Santana where he dominated the Mets for 5 innings, then left? He came up terribly short on the Saturday game vs the Cubs. Part of me thinks that even if you are hurt, the really good pitchers gut through it and find a way to keep their team in the game, which Sheets did not do. The other part of me has to give him credit for trying to go out there and pitch down the stretch to help his team, knowing the situation they were in, and knowing his own upcoming contractual situation. He could have easily told management his arm was no good, sat out the last couple of weeks, played it off as some shoulder fatigue, and went on his way. But he tried to play through it, looked awful, and now his payday will probably suffer because of it. So while he didn't help Milwaukee down the stretch at all, infact he probably hurt them more then he helped, I have to give him credit for atleast trying to go out there.
There truly has to be a better alternative for your blog then typekey Tim. It is horrible. I now routinely have to sign in and out after every post.
Posted by: nrmax88 | October 08, 2008 at 04:19 PM