4:50 PM: Altuve underwent surgery to repair a patella avulsion fracture in his right knee, according to MLB.com’s Brian McTaggart (Twitter link). Per McTaggart, an avulsion fracture as defined takes place when a small part of the bone attached to the knee’s tendon or ligament has loosened.
12:26 PM: Astros second baseman Jose Altuve underwent surgery on his right knee Friday, Mark Berman of Fox26 and MLB.com’s Brian McTaggart reported (Twitter links).
McTaggart pointed out yesterday that the 2017 AL MVP played through knee pain throughout the second half of this season. Still, the exact diagnosis has not yet been revealed by either Altuve or the team, and the Astros have yet to confirm the surgery. As of right now, Altuve is expected to make a full recovery in time for Spring Training.
Altuve was the DH for the final three games of the ALCS against Boston, but manager AJ Hinch said the injury would have sent Altuve to the disabled list had it been the regular season. Presumably, the knee worsened as the year wore on. Altuve originally injured the knee while sliding into second base in a game against Colorado all the way back in July.
Before the injury, Altuve hit .329/.392/.464, whereas after the injury he hit .276/.366/.409. Nevertheless, the three-time AL batting champ still finished the season with an overall slash line of .315/.384/.449 and 134 wRC+.
“TC”, could you hyperlink Jose Altuve’s name as the other writers often do so that I can click the link and go directly to Baseball Reference? It would save me clicks and about 0.5 seconds of typing. I know you’re new and not quite Jeff Toddesque with your articles, so let’s chalk this one up to a learning experience.
Thank you! A+! Recommended! Would read again.
… condescending, unsolicited advice – always a good approach.
Coming from a Sox fan, the respect and love this guy has for the game to play through that injury is amazing. Half our players would’ve hit the shelf just for a broken nail… So much respect for him and his team. They’ll be back in the World Series real soon!
Jose really man’d up. With his injury and pain, he played his position on the field with hustle, held more than his own on the bases and was still a huge threat on the bases.
Definitely a guy who could make it in the NHL!
It’s not that easy. That has been said about many great teams that never return.
Houston is loaded with young talent they ain’t goin no where
How can you say what others would have done when the diagnosis and performed procedure haven’t been revealed? Pedie and Wright it seems have done everything possible this year to get back on the field. Having had three knee surgeries, I can tell you they are different. “Simple” arthroscopic meniscus surgery is normally easy to come back quickly. ACL reconstruction procedures continue to evolve but after mine in 1998 with one of the best in NYC took four months of rehab. While I’m not a top athlete I also didn’t return to competitive action. Altuve is a special talent but without knowing what was wrong it’s unfair to others to make such a broad statement.
Right on bro
Awesome Dewey,
I agree, great post.
I hope your wife is doing much better these days.
Enjoy the WS
Thanks Eileen. Appreciate the well wishes for “my other” as such is more important than who wins the W.S. Next surgery is probably early next year but while every procedure has risks, her life and death status is hopefully behind us. My joke is she’s doing well enough to again argue…
Idiot if they are the Sox aren’t
Idiot
Beni tendi is a moron
Do you say anything that makes sense?
lol
You’re giving us Sox fans a bad name.
Is that you, BigPapi4ever???
Benint,
You’re a good guy and fan!!
Marcell Ozuna should follow the lead of Altuve here and get fixed up. Ozuna has a bum shoulder headed into his FA/walk year. Not sure what the heck he is doing.
He’s being given rehab/PT which he apparently was only resting it last offseason. Hopefully it helps.
Also shoulder surgery isn’t really all that effective compared to PT a lot of research shows.
Weird that he didn’t just address this in July when it happened. He probably would have been fine for the playoffs.
Maybe the surgery and recovery time needed would’ve ended his season.
And the Astros were reeling with Correa and Springer on the shelf at the exact same time.