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David Coonce
With regards to Whitley, when are players going to stop hiding injuries? I know sports is a macho enterprise, but this kind of thing never ends well for the player. I remember when Jon Broxton just collapsed down the stretch several years ago with the Dodgers, then admitted he was pitching with an injury he wasn’t telling the team about. He hasn’t been the same since; and yet he said he would do the same thing again if he had to. It’s silly. If you’re hurt your hurt. It’s not a moral failing. It doesn’t make you less of a man or less of a baseball player.
PoppyMelt
Whitley was only in the rotation becuase Tanaka got injured, he doesn’t want to go on the DL and lose his roster spot. I’m not really happy that he did it but i understand why he did.
Sleeper
It’s pretty frustrating as a Yankee fan for that to happen too, I know the guy finally worked his way into the rotation and he didn’t want to lose the spot, I can’t blame him for that much. But by hiding the injury and having to come out in game, he hurt the bullpen and the team itself tonight, and could have further hurt himself, which isn’t cool all around.
David Coonce
I’m going to guess that hiding the injury A) doesn’t endear him to his bosses and B) makes the injury worse. It’s shortsighted.
Garrett Gordon
There’s a lot more psychologically that goes into it than just being macho. These guys are professional athletes that want to compete. They don’t want to be injured. I’m not a sports psychologist but I can bet they go through some phase of denial and psychologically talk themselves into thinking they aren’t hurt; that they can play through it.
David Coonce
That’s probably true; this is an issue that teams should probably begin addressing early in the minors – “If you’re hurt please let us know. Getting injured isn’t a fault. But getting more hurt because you didn’t tell us is a fault.”
JacobyWanKenobi
It’s the same reason a lot of players use(d) PEDs, when you finally make it you have this overwhelming pressure to keep it at all costs. It’s not exactly fun to have your dream slip away.
Steven Garrison
I think by the deadline, if the red sox are alive and in it, I see them going after cueto
Bob Bunker
Kelly isn’ the terrible pitcher he has been so far in 2015. He is a 4 to 4.5 ERA guy with a good fastball that can mix dominating starts with awful duds. However, he is a very inefficient pitcher who has only 5 starts of 7 IP and 0 of 8 in 55 career starts.
I think he is a decent number 5 starter with potential for more if he could get his walk rate down while maitaining his current K rate. I think the team should give him until end of June to prove himself.
However, if by end of June he is struggiling and the team is looking to contend I think he will need to be replaced.
Bob Bunker
Davis and Wieters seem like they are definitly gone from Balitmore. Chen and Norris can be replaced by 2 of Gausman, Bundy, and Harvey though to keep depth I think Chen gets resigned or they pick up a veteran SP on the cheap.
De Aza and Young can be let go or replaced easily as can Tommy Hunter and Wesley Wright.
I think Pearce, O’Day, and Everth Cabrera could all be resigned for cheap short term deals and will. That should leave the O’s in a good spot to make a splash in FA or through trade.