Email a copy of 'Greg Holland To Undergo Tommy John Surgery On Friday' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Greg Holland To Undergo Tommy John Surgery On Friday' to a friend
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JD396
I’m curious to see how his situation plays out, with this essentially becoming his unplanned contract year. The idea of a backloaded 2-year deal, loaded with incentives makes sense to me from Holland’s perspective, but with Boras involved, who knows what will happen.
RunDMC
End of his career? Really? Braves had no interest in him until he had the injury.
Steve Adams
Didn’t say the end of his career — said of his Royals career.
RunDMC
Ah, big difference. Thanks for the correction.
bruinsfan94 2
I also misread that for some reason.
Slipknot37
Glad I’m not the only one that misread it
bobford
Yeah, braves could use him for 2017.
AndreB
Sad to see this guy go down!
gamemusic3 2
“The Royals are said to have asked Holland to get the elbow checked out on multiple occasions this season, but Holland’s preference was always to pitch through the discomfort.”
Organizations should crack down and force these player attitudes out.
You get a sane way to address it correct or you do not get in the game.
jd396
Yeah, I agree that if the team is concerned about it, there’s no reason why the player shouldn’t comply and get it checked out. It’s not like there’s really anything to lose for the player. Either they really are fine, or they have say a UCL tear. We all know that doesn’t necessarily mean TJ surgery right off the bat. The headline a year ago could read “Holland has UCL tear but feels like he can pitch through it.” Then, when his numbers start tanking, we kind of know why already, and instead of facing the probability of getting non-tendered he might have been looking at TJ three or four months ago and a mid-2016 return. Boras or no Boras, it’s not like Holland was going to be able to quick sneak a huge extension in without having to pass a physical.
If I get hurt at work but don’t fill out a first report of injury fork until a year later, I’m going to end up paying for all my own treatment.
Joseph Anderson
I sensed something was wrong with him earlier in the year but never really saw anything alarming in the blogs. Maybe he was worried of losing his closing job. Maybe he’s just a competitor and wanted to play through the injury like players use to do (now if you have a hangnail you’re placed on the 15-day DL…lol). We can speculate all we want but bottom line is he lost some respect from me to not at least get it checked out and THEN decide to try and play through it. Oh well, R’s still have Davis or Herrera or Madson or Hoch who can all close during hte post season if needed.
jd396
You’d think that you’d want to at least know what the problem is before making an informed decision to pitch through it, or not.
The DL does get used a heck of a lot more than it used to, but then again medicine has advanced to the point that they can specifically diagnose problems rather than making statements like “his leg is sore” and telling to pop some Advil and put his big boy pants on.