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tharrie0820
Before people start bashing syndergaard for not getting the MRI again: the team wanted to get an MRI on his BICEP. a lat issue, what his injury ended up being, would not have shown up
BronxBombers14
No, but my guess would be the bicep issue led to the lat tear. When a team is paying you $600k a year, if they tell you to get an MRI, there shouldn’t be any discussion. Immaturity on Syndergaard’s behalf.
Kevin D. 2
The reason he hurt is lat is most likely because of the biceps, as was pointed out on MLB Network. He had some kind of minor biceps injury, and because of it likely had to alter his mechanics slightly in order to continue to generate the 100mph velocity we’re familiar with. THAT led to the lat tear
LH
Not saying they will, but saying that the Royals may not have enough time to turn their season around is false. There is plenty of time to come back from eight games under.
RunDMC
Heck, ATL blew a 8.5 game lead in a few weeks at the end of the season a few years ago, in a historic collapse. Definitely more than enough time.
jdgoat
Their roster isn’t all that good though.
baseball10
These writers like to doom and gloom in the bad times and overreact in good ones. There’s definitely a hot streak in the Royals future, as the nature of baseball goes
southi
I’ve enjoyed reading (and often listening) to the many different comments that Hall of Fame caliber pitchers have about pitching and arm injuries. Certainly Smoltz is no stranger to the subject, but I’ve also seen guys like Tom Glavine, Nolan Ryan and Don Sutton make numerous comments on pitching, pitch counts, and injuries. Those comments often deviate from what has been popular and normal theory.
majorflaw
Ryan, Glavine, etc. may have been experts on their own arms but there’s scant evidence that any of them are knowledgeable about pitching arms in general. Not wise to take general rules from anecdotal evidence, particularly when the individuals involved are, by definition, exceptional.
bleedblueandorange
Smoltzy is right. Plenty of guys hit 100 mph. Kyle Hendricks can’t even hit 90 and he does just fine
RunDMC
….does fine when he’s locating, which he’s been struggling with this year. Even Maddux had a 92mph fastball while Hendricks has been 87-88mph, if I read correctly, which made Maddux’s other talent of mixing up pitches so effective.
chesteraarthur
down to 85.5 on the sinker and 86 on the four seam this year. And as you mentioned, has been having issues locating as well. It’s not pretty when those two things are going wrong.
jd396
Yeah, Maddux and his 92 MPH fastball
tim815
We can discuss how to keep pitchers healthy. And we should. However, far too many baseball fans don’t seem to give a you-know-what about keeping players healthy.
Don’t believe me?
Take a quick poll when a starter drags a no-no into the eighth inning at 95 pitches already.
Brixton
pitch count isn’t an issue. The effort that goes into each pitch that subsequently drags down the pitchers ability to throw more pitches is.
Guys used to throw well into the mid 100’s and above way back in the day
tim815
The problem is, nobody seems to give a rat’s behind about keeping a pitcher healthy. Until it’s about 30 seconds too late.
I’m a minor league guy. Largely because duration and days off are closely minded.
In an MLB game, fans flip their lid when a reliever is limited to about 20 pitches. Absolutely flip their lids.
“They should go three innings. Or at least two. Like in my day.”
We don’t know everything about workload. Clearly. However, when fans don’t grasp that relievers tend to break down in the 80-90 inning range, rather seriously sometimes, I get concerned.
Is winning more important than player health?
I say no.
With possible exceptions in or after late August.
Realistically, I want players to stay healthy. Even if it means my Cubs lose.
Cam
What makes a platelet-rich plasma injection ethically right, yet blood “doping” or use of a “steroid” is wrong? Besides the fact that MLB has told us it’s wrong.
As far as I know, platelet-rich plasma injections involve beefing up the plasma with growth factors and injecting them into someone to fast track healing of soft tissue damage. Why is that okay, but taking a pill to stimulate growth and recovery is seen as the devil’s work? Heck, steroids can be injected too.
pplama
If the Nats valued performance vs. RHP over Defense, a Melky/DRob package could be equally as enticing as Cain/Herrera, as long as the White Sox threw in a hefty amount of $.
Should Have Acquired Dylan Cease
I think people need to learn how basic anatomy works. If you workout with weights, you know that pulling movements involve your lats and your biceps. Your biceps are the secondary muscle group that helps with the pulling motion. Think pullups. When your lats are weak, you compensate by using your biceps to help lift you up. When you biceps are weak, your body compensates with other muscle groups. Because his biceps were weak, his lats gave out. Also, who really knows how healthy his lat muscles were prior to the start.
jd396
But he’s in tune with his body
roywhite
lol let’s hope he NEVER makes that statement again for the rest of his career!