A’s pitcher Jarrod Parker has suffered a fracture of the right medial epicondyle, as John Hickey of the Bay Area News Group writes. Parker is recovering from his second Tommy John surgery and given how critical the right medial epicondyle is to holding together a surgically-repair arm, it is feared that Parker could be in store for a third Tommy John procedure.
“We don’t know how much this is going to set back his recovery at this point in time,’’ A’s trainer Nick Paparesta said Saturday night. “He’s going to go home, where we’re going to set him up to see some specialists and see what our options are. It seems like surgery is kind of imminent, what kind of surgery we kind of have to wait and see.’’
Until Parker gets further evaluated, he won’t know the exact nature of his injury or the level of surgery that will be required. Therefore, at this time, there is no timetable for his recovery, but it sounds like there is fear that he could be lost for the season. Parker received a x-rays and a CT-scan on Saturday night, so a diagnosis might not be too far away.
Parker, 26, broke out in his first full major league season, pitching to a 3.47 ERA with 6.9 K/9 and 3.1 BB/9. He followed that up in 2013 by posting a 3.97 ERA with 6.1 K/9 and 2.9 BB/9 across 32 starts. Unfortunately, however, he has not seen a big league mound since then. This season, Parker in the minors working to get back on track before this latest setback.
Man, the A’s are done and their bullpen isn’t all that great now. I’m almost done watching their games and it’s hard to watch.
Yeah not a whole lot left in the tank there, and the farm is pretty bare. The Blue Jays and Cubs trades the last two years have really killed them. But Beane will churn and churn and will come up with an inexplicably good team in a year or two.
Better start looking around baseball at who has the most bizarre beard or hair….that’s Beane’s secret to winning….
If they really want to blow things up again, and they are really out of it, what if they traded sonny gray
Oh, I’m sure Beane wouldn’t have a problem holding some high draft picks. Not sure Gray needs to be dealt. He’d bring back quite a bit, but also prospect uncertainty.
Yup I can agree to that
I do think Gray is too early to deal on. They don’t need to lose 110 games to hold a.high pick. He has value to them. If nothing he could be dealt down the road for prospects when its much clearer what the need is. This year seemed like a big experiment in Oakland. But….don’t count them out…how often have they been left for dead into late June and come on? It happens…they have these inexplicable teams. They are particularly team chemistry prone….I know that isn’t measurable.. But anyone that has seen them over the past few seasons can see that effect.
imo they lost the team chemistry when they traded away cespedes, they lost their mojo when that happened
Not sure what happened…it was hard to explain…but that team seemed to be on borrowed time anyway. They did have this nice flow to the lineup…. But the key was always the pitching… They get a guy like AJ Griffin up and be lights out. A’s have ALWAYS been about the arms.
pitching is their strength, the angels I hope make a move for a bat at the deadline without giving up either heaney newcomb or tropeano
Amazing the Angels have some prospects. That system was a wreck.
yea Dipoto has done a nice job the last two years by adding some good pieces. There is a rumor they could go get Cargo
My thinking has the Rockies going after an ace arm via trade.
And thats what I hope the angels don’t have to give up tropeano heaney or newcomb for cargo, imo I don’t think they need pitching , the angels are getting quality starts from santiago wilson and richards, weaver seems to be back in vintage form, shoe needs to figure it out, they just need a bat
I think the Rockies want a James Shields/Royals type to build Gray/Butler around.
well the rockies can forget about that, because they won’t give up richards or any pitchers on the roster, Others were saying maybe bruce carlos gomez and maybe braun. My idea maybe adam lind but the brewers would prolly want cron
Well…Cargo might be a separate deal. I’m not sure that an NL team will want Cron…he loses some flexibility without the DH involved. Carlos Gomez would be nice.
Cron is a natural first basemen so he would work, I read if they were going to go after cargo, the angels would give up a reliever prospect or somebody while the rockies eat most of the contract I think
Only issue with Cron is that he might be a platoon player waiting to happen
Possible , thats why the angels parted ways with trumbo
Helps a draft when the Angels have a pick before the 3rd round because free agent signings
Yea from that trade onward through this past off season their offense was 100% gutted. Now their pitching staff has taken big hits too. Sunny gray can get then alot in a trade and a healthy Ben zobrist also has some good value to a contending team
Ouch thats a big loss for the A’s one of their strengths this year was going to be the depth of the rotation, now it looks like Parker having another tommy john. that is going to hurt , they have griffin coming back as well from tommy john. Looks like they might be sellers. I think if the cards want a pitcher for the year to replace wainwright, should look at kazmir.
poor guy!
The video for this looked absolutely terrible. Parker immediately collapses to the ground, screaming in agony. Good luck to him but it looked like a career-ending injury.
Seems like we’re heading toward the day when the cliche is to refer to Brett Anderson as the “Venerable Old Work Horse, Brett Anderson”. We’ll be telling the grandkids on our knee that we once saw pitchers complete half a season.
I don’t want to sound overly negative, but the story made me curious: Is there a limit to how many Tommy John procedures somebody can undergo? Do they eventually run out of viable transplant options?
And hypothetically, if the injury couldn’t be repaired, what would the impact be? Obviously pitching would be out of the question, but would it be a functional joint for day-to-day life going forward?