SUNDAY: The team “is cautiously optimistic” that Tulowitzki can return in two-to-three weeks, GM Alex Anthopoulos told reports, including the National Post’s John Lott. The shortstop’s progress over the next few days will better determine his future status, as Anthopoulos noted that “there’s a lot of bleeding internally that needs to subside at this point” and there’s no set recovery time since different people heal at different rates from such injuries.
SATURDAY, 7:36pm: Tulowitzki has been diagnosed with a small crack to his left scapula, tweets Gregor Chisholm of MLB.com. He also has upper back muscle bruising. The timetable for his return is unknown, but the loss is certainly a blow to the club. Cliff Pennington is likely to start in his absence.
4:25pm: Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki left the first game of a doubleheader against the Yankees on Saturday with an unknown injury, MLB.com’s Gregor Chisholm and others report. Tulowitzki collided with teammate Kevin Pillar while catching a popup, then toppled backward strangely. He walked off the field without assistance. X-rays on Tulowitzki’s back and ribs came back negative, although Tulowitzki was also scheduled to undergo an MRI on his upper back, the results of which won’t be available until tomorrow. He is currently day-to-day. Tulowitzki has, of course, dealt with injuries throughout his big-league career, including injuries to his wrist, groin, rib and hip.
Obviously, a significant injury to Tulowitzki would be a blow to the Jays, who are trying to hold off the Yankees and win the AL East. The Jays are very well positioned for a playoff berth no matter what, but they’re only two and a half games up in their division. Tulowitzki hasn’t hit exceptionally well (.234/.316/.370) since arriving from Colorado in a high-profile trade near the deadline, but the Jays are 29-9 in games he’s played for them.
Hopefully he is back in the next series or this will be a huge loss for toronto.
Of course he got injured…
Its a precaution because of his injury history..
The Jays knew who and what he was when they traded for Tulo.
That was a weird collision. Hope he’s alright though
It was definitely scary looking with a whiplash effect clearly visible. Primarily for the fact that he looked down at Pillar to see if he was okay, then he just kind of collapsed. He’s not a Rockie in uniform anymore, but he will always be a Rockie in spirit. Hope he is okay.
That’s what worried me when he looked at pillar and just fell back. Happy he was able to walk off the field
LOL “in spirit” – get over it, its a business there’s nothing “spiritual” about it. He’s a Blue Jay and he’ll continue to be injury prone like he’s always been.
Thanx for your input. I’ll file it away with everything else useless that I have come across in my life.
Cool, 6 full seasons and a bunch of injured ones = 20+ years of work with them to you? Get over it, he barely got 1000 games with them.
Get over yourself. You don’t have a right to tell me who to root for or who is a good player in my mind. You have a right to your opinion, but that doesn’t make it everyone’s opinion. Have a nice day and I really hope the swelling in your head eventually subsides.
Really terrible acquisition from the get-go, should have gotten Cueto instead.
Right because Cueto’s been killing it…
Cueto in KC has a lower FIP than every TOR SP other than Price. Sit down now.
Who cares what his FIP has been right now? He gets shelled every time he takes the mound.
He’s been killing something… his free agent value. Some had considered him the most desirable free agent pitcher this off season. Now I think he’s significantly reduced the level of interest any AL team would have in him. It could be just bad luck, it could be a hidden injury, but no matter what it is this has to put some questions in the minds of any AL GM considering making a big money offer about if he’s another example of a pitcher who can be successful in the NL but not in the AL
They got price and a big reason why they were able to add tulu is because they got rid of reyes in it.
Reyes has been about as good as Tulo since the trade, at least with the bat.
Don’t think one team would take Reyes over Tulu.
Not sure why this got voted down. Aside from power numbers, Reyes has been just as good at the plate as Tulo.
It probably got voted down because when you have to say “at least with the bat”, that is a caveat that essentially destroys your own argument.
I didn’t realize Cueto could play shortstop; but even assuming he could that .107 career batting average, zero power, and striking out roughly one out of every three at bats are WAY below what Tulo has done (plus I’m pretty confident that Tulo’s defense at short is well above what Cueto could do). So, no they shouldn’t have gotten Cueto instead of Tulo. You could debate Cueto vs Price (since they both would address the same need), but you’d lose that debate too. Price has done FAR better with the Jays since the trade than Cueto has with the Royals
He has not Played more than 150 games in Seven years and it an’t going to get better has he ages, Blue Jays Better Win this Year because their looking like the Phillies in 2017, Old aging player that break down every year .
the difference is, the Phillies had a lot of success to warrant the spending on high priced FA’s.
The Phillies didn’t play in the A.L East. Easy to have a lot of success when you’re in a division with at least 3 teams that are dead weight every year.