Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. left tonight’s game after sliding into third base and seemingly re-injuring his left shoulder, according to Dennis Lin of The Athletic.
There isn’t any word yet on the severity of the injury. But this is an issue that has been bothering Tatis on-and-off for the entire season. It first flared up in March, before the season even began. Tatis then appeared to re-aggravate the issue, landing on the IL April 6th. Thankfully, he was reactivated after a minimum 10-day stay, being reactivated April 16th. But then on June 19th, Tatis was again removed from a game with what seemed like another shoulder injury. Though Padres manager Jayce Tingler later said that the move was precautionary and Tatis did not end up going back on the IL.
Losing Tatis for any amount of time would be a serious blow to the Padres. They are currently holding down the last playoff spot in the National League, but have the Reds nipping at their heels, just 4 1/2 games back. The calendar will flip over to August on Sunday as teams will be pushing to make their final pushes for the postseason. Tatis has been superb this year, despite dealing with this ongoing injury. He’s produced a 165 wRC+ on the season so far on his way to accruing 4.7 fWAR, easily the best on the team. Tatis and Padres fans will surely be hoping this is just another precautionary measure.
Is that shoulder alwasy going to be a problem? I hope not
Unfortunately these young exciting guys like tatis and Acuna who play all out put themselves in more positions to get hurt and occasionally they get seriously hurt. The stolen base is slowly disappearing with analytics but it’s got more to do with money. Body gets beat up sliding into bases.
@ iverbure;
Agreed.
Tatis and Acuna are 2 hot dogs that want to draw attention to themselves. Their Baseball IQ is terrible. Harper was like this with the Nets, he finally began to wise up when he ran into a wall chancing a fly ball and knocked himself out.
I went back and watched the play. Here was the situation…..
Rockies up 4-0 in the bottom of the 1st inning. Padres basting. One out, Tatis on 1B.
Machado hits a hard groundball to 3B, McMahon is playing a bit deep, He misplays the ball. It goes a few feet in back of him to his right. He picks up the ball up and hesitates a few feet on the LF grass. Tatis runs around 2B and decides to race to 3B. The SS (Rodgers) is maybe 10-15 feet from the 3B bag. McMahon picks up the ball and flips it to Rodgers whose racing Tatis to the bag. To avoid the tag, Tatis dives head-first towards the bag from maybe 7-8 feet away, He’s tagged out, then slides into the bag and hits his shoulder.
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So – It’s the 1st inning. Your team is down by 4 runs with one out. There are 8-2/3 innings to catch up. His team would have had runners on 1st and 2nd with one out and his teams 4th and 5h hitters coming up. What exactly is the point of sliding into 3B in that situation? So he can tag up on a fly ball to pull to within 3 runs….in the 1st inning? Or is the point to get on Cable TV highlight reels so you can make more commercials about “”The Game Has Changed!”. as you sell your brand?
Result – The Rockies get out of the inning leading 4-0. The “superstar” is now out injured again for who knows how long. His team is already dejected after the FO did little at the trade deadline, Now this. How exactly does that benefit his team?
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Preller is a hot dog GM that has no sense. He appears to have built a team of players that do the same. I’ve watched a number of their games. They’re undisciplined, they play dumb baseball, and they lose games they should have won. I don’t think their FO is respected around the league (GM’s WANT to trade with Preller because he always overpays). I don’t think most teams appreciate the way they play the game and conduct themselves. (And they’re playing a 2B in the OF which he hasn’t played in years at the beginning of a stretch run….lets watch how that affects his hitting the next 2 months.) Everything fits perfectly.
Ya wanna be entertained or ya wanna win and become a champion?
Wow, you really go to great lengths to show us how envious you are of the guy. Hope he’s not out long. Slam dunk NL MVP
I disagree.. with everything.
And I thought I was an old grumpy man. In my day they called that hustle, but maybe I’m wrong.
@Samuel….While you maybe taking the ol ’ grumpy guy title from John silver, he seems to at least have better judgement as old crotchety baseball fans go.
You throw around the term “hot dog” as if some guy going that is going all out is merely stealing your Turkey dog thunder.
Also, my comment is a long one with 3 paragraphs.
You spelled Tatis slides feet-first towards the bag, you troglodyte.
Well at least they are only in third place with the team they are obsessed with beating about to become a whole lot better.
Yes darn these young players and their newfangled “hustle”…. I thought that was one of the problems with today’s baseball players. Make up your minds!!
I do too. This is baseball. Not that hard to play hard and aggressive without getting hurt. Players did it for 100 years.
Biggest Maroon of the Year. You win the title.
Go straight to heck and never re-emerge.
It was hustle when Pete Rose did it, but apparently when it’s Tatis or Acuna it’s hot dogging.
When I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, this was called playing the game and hustling. How is hustling being a hot dog? You obviously have never been an athlete. You sound like a pampered wimp
Right?
Confusing take is confusing.
It’s confusing as confusing is…..
Old man yells at cloud
It was a dumb baserunning play, but plenty of players make such dumb plays without being labeled as hot dogs.
Hah.
As a Yankee fan, I am thoroughly unimpressed by “dumb baserunning”. Booner has taught my club to excel in that particular activity.
In fairness he slid feet first, technically did everything he could to be safe, while also being his usual exciting self
Not really hotdogging, but there’s such a thing as control that they haven’t yet grasped. Young guys think they’re indestructible.
Some of you like Samuel and Cey Hey, think this platform is for some sort of journalistic audition.
No one cares about your incoherent, nonsensical ramble. We are all now dumber thanks to you.
Its not envy…just called good baseball IQ…..He may very well be NL MVP, but the analysis of the play in which he hurt himself is spot on….deal with it!
You’re a hot dog.
Lol of all the people to complain about “incoherent, nonsensical ramble”…
Had never read so much nonsense here before. Do some yoga for much needed
relaxation dude.
Where have you been metsfan22? I missed you
Lol facts
The hug watch continues…
@tstats- @MetsFan22 just went to buy his Javier Baez jersey. Congratulations, definitely one of my favorites. And he is willing to play 2nd base to play with Lindor when he gets healthy. Hopefully they can sign him long-term. Great trade for the Mets. Tatis should be alright. No worries.
Y4L 75: You see Rizzo’s blast tonight? I could get used to that, man. Now all we need is consistent pitching, consistent relief pitching, and consistent hitting and we can gain some ground….
Seriously though, is it me or do the umpires call strikes this far out of the zone only on Yankee hitters? C’mon BLUE!
What on earth makes you think “no worries “ with Tatis?? He could easily be shut down for the season if there is structural damage again.
Yeah the Umps only suck calling strikes against the Yankees.
You sure about that or maybe the Yankees actually suck? I mean, they’re the NY Yankees and have been known for cheating and all that?
@Yankee Clipper- yes, brother that was a moon shot!!! I think it’s still up there in the air? Wasn’t really expecting him to make an impact so quickly. I really thought Rizzo and Kimbrel were going to Boston. So glad they didn’t. We might have just found ourselves our new lst basemen for this year and the next few. Yes the umps are out of control. I’ve seen so many pitches way outside or inside called for strikes. I guess their just trying to speed up the game? I hate it. Might have to start using the computers to start calling balls and strikes. Smh
@LookHere- cheating? Sounds like you got the Yankees confused with the “Cheatin Stros” man? Yankees don’t suck. You sound so salty, about not getting Scherzer. Gotcha.
I fear they are expediting that process for digital strike/ball calls. There were two series in particular wherein Michael Kay and Cone discussed the pitches that were specifically called strikes only against the Yankees, outside the zone. Gleyber got kicked out in one of the games too, which is unusual. The umpire’s overall accuracy rating is 18%! Then they showed the digital box with balls that were inside the box and were being called balls. Chapman in one game had four or five in a row and almost blew the save because of it.
I could get used to that too. But he bats funny. Stands on the wrong side of the plate…
Clip, I see brutal calls against everyone. Not just the Yanks. That being acknowledged, fangraphs has shown no player gets worse calls than Judge. Wish he’d get pissed about it once or twice.
Like last time, when the shoulder becomes dislocated, he’s in intense pain, but once it goes back in, its almost immediately better.
This is how they feel things are now, that he should be back in a couple days.
Though I do want him to get surgery in the off-season
I’ve been here.
I knew I smelled something…
Son, shouldn’t you be playing little league or getting ready for your high school football training camp rather than posting about the mets constantly?
Ma take away your web privvies after kicking the TV when my AAA Braves took the 5-game series on your turf?
Without surgery or physical therapy, he’s gonna pop that shoulder out at any given opportunity. Granted, I’m under the impression the official diagnosis is a subluxation of his shoulder and that I can speak from experience.
That White Sox trade for Shields looking better.
@ChiSox_Fan-yes indeed! Who was better then James”Big game” Shields?
Hours after deGrom’s most recent setback — now out until at least Sept. Man, you just don’t learn. You’re spitting on Jobu and for the sake of healthy Mets players, tread carefully.
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson:
Doh!
Ha…ha?
This is the worst news since Washington wouldn’t accept Hosmer in a Scherzer deal
Can you really blame Washington? They’re clearly entering a mini rebuild at least. Why on earth would they want to pay Hosmer 60M to be subpar when a 2M/yr stopgap would put up similar numbers?
For a good prospect or 2. You said yourself they’re entering a rebuild so why not take on dead money
For one good prospect who’s in A ball if the rumors are true. You know SD was not kicking money in, or much.. the point was to stay below Lux tax
Look, a top 50 guy in A ball has the chance to be a top 10 guy by the time he’s MLB ready. But that’s multiple big hurdles SD was asking Wash to assume hed successfully make. The guy was drafted just last year
“I’ve seen this one before”
Seems as though the injury always seems worse then it is with him. Usually looks like he is going to be out awhile and the he wants to be in the lineup the next day. I hope this is the case again.
Yeah but this year it’s been his shoulder over and over again.
Those can take a long time to heal and if he keeps hurting it, eventually it will be more than a 10 day rest.
I would have rested him until June and focus on having him being healthy for the 2nd half.
When I said the Padres were being fast and loose with Tatis, people pointed out how wrong I was.
This doesn’t good on paper, if I was Tatis’ agent or parent I’d get multiple opinions and go with the most cautious one.
Even if I was with the team I’d point out that we have him signed for the next 13 years.
When Tatis partially dislocated his shoulder earlier this year, Padres fans heard from every Dodger fan about how horrible the injury was. Before McCourt told us that he would be out for 4 months minimum and that he would never be the same when he came back. Everyone can see how that prediction worked out.
I think the Padres will continue to listen to the advice of their doctors over random fans of opposing teams on the internet.
Funny how Tatis keeps hurting the same shoulder over and over and over again. Maybe he should listen to a Dr and get healthy. You think that’s going to help the Padres if he is out a few weeks. They are a 3rd place team with his in the lineup every day.
It worked out with Tatis injured again.
You’re argument looks flawed to me but I called this
I mean, a separated shoulder that I didn’t rehab properly ended my baseball career. I went from throwing in the low 90s my freshman year in college, to being barely able to throw in the 70s by my junior year.
Shoulders are finicky due to the wear and tear they take. They need time to heal, with proper rehab and PT. Tatis rushed himself and he got hurt again. If he doesn’t rehab it properly, he will continue to get worse and worse shoulder injuries until he’s unable to use it anymore.
Mine went from a simple impingement, to a separated shoulder, to a torn rotator cuff, to then a torn labrum and my body just couldn’t take the injuries anymore.
The only thing dumber than a schmidt-talking Yankee fan is a schmidt-talking Dodger fan. They’re like weeds on this site. You get rid of one and another dumbsky pops up.
Oh poor you. And the only thing dumber then us Dodger fans is you and your lame lingo using words like “schmidt” and “dumbsky.” Maybe it’s cause you are a child or maybe you are just lame yourself but all I get from your post is that it bothers you that the Dodgers and Yankees have better fan bases then your team.
John Smoltz talked about it tonight on mlb network. He had the same thing early in his career. Just worked on strengthening the muscles around it. Didn’t jeopardize his long career but had to deal with it
I assume it wasn’t his throwing shoulder?
No, it wasn’t his throwing shoulder. Healthy shoulders lock in place. His and Tatis’ slide
Got it. I was trying to figure out how he could control his pitches while his shoulder pops out.
It’s a non-throwing shoulder for Tatis too but he makes a living off swinging the bat and a bum left shoulder isn’t doing favors for his follow through
Which is precisely why he switched to a two-handed follow through earlier this year.
Cronenworth shifts to ss and Frazier to 2B. Hopefully it’s not too serious.
Lmao and people call Trea Turner injury prone
Lol injuries is classless move.
What about lmao injuries?
Laughing is laughing.
Did I miss something or are you really laughing at an injury?
No. He’s laughing at an injury. The sad part is he’s laughing cause people apparently told him Trea Turner is injury prone and that fact hurt his ego a little bit. Idk he seems to hold grudges which can’t be healthy.
@Faith in the Padres What fact? How many days in his entire professional career (both minor and major league) has Trea Turner spent on the IL due to non-HBP related injuries?
Why non HBP related injuries?
Using your own logic. I’ll answer that when you answer when Gabriel Arias was on the top 100 prospect list when he was traded for Mike Clevinger. Deal?
“Arias was a top 100 prospect when he was traded”
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@Faith in the Padres…
“Why non HBP related injuries?”
See BeforeMcCourt and Yankee Clipper’s comments.
See. He’s totally afraid to be proven wrong.
Anyways. I dont think Turner is injury prone. I think Turner is accident prone. Finds unusual ways to get himself injured. End result is the same, he winds up on the injured list.
Try not to take what people tell you too seriously man. Let it go sometimes. Water off a ducks back type of stuff. You’ll be a lot happier. Also, idk what Turner being injured has to do with you laughing at Tatis Jr being injured. Not cool man.
You really need him to type out exactly what I said to prove he can make a point? Seriously?
@Faith in the Padres Many Padres fans (not necessarily you) call Turner injury prone in an attempt to justify the Myers trade and then when you point out that Tatis, despite being a professional baseball player a year less long and playing in his first actual professional game 2 years after Turner, has spent significantly more time on the DL/IL due to chronic, recurring injuries than Turner they go into hiding. Not unlike the people who say that Machado wouldn’t have signed unless the Padres signed Hosmer first.
What’s his point? Someone was wrong about Turner being injury prone? Thats cool. Idk who made that argument or when they made that argument or where.
I do know that’s not an excuse to laugh at another player being injured.
@Faith in the Padres Well for one Louholtz22 tried to make that argument literally right below this comment.
No one cared to see your comment in the first place. So no he doesn’t.
Well considering your comment came before Lou’s I suspect the deep underlying original argument happened in a baseball thread a long long long time ago.
Like I said man. Grudges aren’t healthy. Gotta let it go. Especially if the cause is ppl on the internet.
Kind of like you keep yapping about someone laughing at Tatis getting hurt. Like you said my man “Let it go, Water off a ducks back” Why keep talking about it. Move on already!!!
@Faith in the Padres I’ve heard people call Turner injury prone several times over the years. They inevitably go unto hiding when you point out that all his injuries were from getting hit by pitches.
@DiegoDuder Are you ever going to provide proof that Manny Machado wouldn’t have signed with the Padres if they hadn’t signed Eric Hosmer first, all other things equal?
I don’t care if you call Tatis injury-prone. Just don’t laugh at injuries. Even if Trea Turner hurt his wanky and pulled a groin dipping sheep I wouldn’t laugh about it. Even after he was arrested, I still wouldn’t laugh.
Totally weird why I’m discussing Tatis Jr injury on a news article about Tatis Jr injury.
Makes total sense to bring up Trea Turner injury history on a news article about Tatis Jr
Guess nobody ever accused Dodger Jr of being smart. Stay in school Jr.
NO ONE LIKES YOU RYAN
You make no sense.
@Padres2019ha Are you just never going to address your “Trade Myers for Syndergaard,” “Padres trade for Realmuto and just extend him” or “Mets trade Syndergaard and trade for Kluber” comments?
Trea Turner IS injury prone. He’s had one full year and that’s it. Buyer beware. Same with Buxton.
@Louboltz22 How many days in his entire professional career (both minor and major league) has Trea Turner spent on the IL due to non-HBP related injuries?
Why are you removing HBP injuries? Its more a part of the game than anything else.
HBP injuries that lead to small broken bones have a near zero likelihood to reoccur. They are random acts within the game. They happen, but randomly.
Claiming someone is injury prone is largely to suggest you think they’ll miss future games. Why would a HBP 5 years ago cause Turner to miss games in August 2021? Now a barking shoulder that’s been hurt 3x in 4 months..
Truly I hope this is another Tatis scare nothing more. Winning because someone else’s superstar got hurt isn’t nearly as fun. To me at least
Simple answer, he’s afraid to be proven wrong so he creates a pseudo reality where he will be right by adding a caveat to his argument.
@oldmansteve and @Faith in the Padres see BeforeMcCourt’s comment.
Because that’s not being prone to injury when hit by a pitch. Prone to injury is when one sustains injuries more often than others when doing what others do routinely, without sustaining the same level/quantity of injuries.
HBP is an anomaly that is completely out of everyone’s control and cannot be measured consistently, for a variety of reasons, like making running plays, or running the bases can. For example, Stanton, minus any and all HBP, is injury prone.
This is worse news than the Guardians trading for Pablo Sandoval and then having him never wear an Indians uniform.
….because there was no jersey big enough?
Ha because fat! Bravo!
The Who? Oh, the Indi….Guardians.
Eddie was just a salary dump.
Did you notice the similarity between the Cleveland Guardians logo and the Gatorade logo?
Yeah neither one is relevant anymore.
Lil’ Sweet seems to be drawn to the dramatics. If his shoulder is always gonna be an issue why not just go in and fix it already? I’m never one to be pro surgery but I’m sick of seeing this guy come up holding that shoulder.
I’m not sure if surgery will fix it. Rest and strengthening around it is probably all that can be done. Not 100% positive
Cody Bellinger had his shoulder surgically repaired this past offseason for the same reason. He’d dislocated his shoulder on multiple occasions, diving in the field at 1B. In fact, that was a reason he shifted to the outfield, to avoid the dive toward the baseline on batted balls.
Once it pops out, it’s apparently easier for it to happen again.
You only say that so he will be done for the season. If he can play through it and get the surgery in the offseason, that’s the route he’ll take.
Last time I checked he just needs some time off and still leads the lead in homers and steals with good defense at the toughest position. With all due respect to deGrom, Trout, Guerrero, Acuna and Soto, Tatis Jr. is the face of the game. Everyone wants him to do well even the fans who want San Diego to miss the playoffs.
He leads the league in HR’s and still plays for a 3rd place team.
At least he doesn’t troll the internet to avoid his third-rate wife.
Mr Fragile
24 hours ago had this happened Bryant or Baez would now be a Padre.
The Padres could have had Trevor Story for a mid-range prospect, too.
“I said oh no no I’ve been through this movie before” – Bob Dylan
Honestly, I feel for Padres fans. They thought they were “inches” away from getting Max Scherzer and Trea Turner, but instead they went to division rivals. Tonight they’ve lost one of the most electric players in MLB, Fernando Tatis Jr., and they’re losing to the Rockies 8-0.
Trea Turner wasn’t going to be in the Padres deal.
Dodgers just lost 6-5 with Jimmy Nelson on the mound in the 10th.
As a Dodgers fan, Trea Turner is great, but he is no Fernando Tatis, Jr. It is like calling Bryce Harper better than Mike Trout, not the case.
But Scherzer and Turner are enough to make the Dodgers the best team in MLB even without much of a bullpen. It is clear that Julio Urias will need to be the post-season closer again for a repeat championship.
Bellinger is garbage
Amen to that. Dodgers should ship Bellinger out for 2 mid level minor leaguers and move on. $14 million to hit .160 is garbage.
@Mr_KLC It later came out that the Scherzer to Padres deal was never close. Some reporter jumped the gun.
Remove (non-parody) is making rumors of rumors now. Bravo. Well, your made-up rumor isn’t true. I heard from a friend that her friend’s uncle’s nephew’s boyfriend’s doctor’s wife, who works security for the Nationals, that she overheard that the deal to the Padres WAS in place and that it even included Turner who the Padres were going to trade to a third team. But the often-injured Turner failed the physical and the deal was nixed by the Padres.
* actually my apologies — I mean to type “the oft-injured, injury-prone Trea Turner” and not “the often-injured Trea Turner.” Once again, my apologies if I have hurt anyone with my words.
@RemoveWhitePitchersFromTheRecordBooks (parody) Are you going to change your username and tell yourself that your comment was funny like you did on this thread?
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Still with the grudge. It was OVER two years ago. Get over it.
Oh, you win. I will say this publicly: I apologize if I hurt your feelings. I mean that. Now can we please move on to belittling each other in new and improved ways?
@RemoveWhitePitchersFromTheRecordBooks (parody) I’m not belittling you. I genuinely wanna know why you do it. Like, how do you process it?
Well they keep Letting him play with a shoulder that obviously needs surgery
It may not though. With shoulder injuries, once invasive surgery is conducted the shoulder rarely returns to 100%. Strengthening his muscles to simply stabilize his shoulder more naturally is far more preferable and effective, according to most doctors, trainers, and players. See comment above for user’s reference to John Smoltz as well.
The sky is falling, and a couple weeks from now we will be playing .600 ball.
Yep and you will still be a 3rd place team. You haven’t played .600 ball all year long. Typical Padre fan, always talking the big talk and never producing anything but hot air.
Dodgie junior — Do you type anything besides “3rd place team.” You’ve written it a good half dozen times on this thread alone. Do you just get drunk and troll Padres fans the whole night long? Is that the meaning of your existence? You’re not even funny about it. Just kinda pathetic.
I guess Dodger JR was so worried about the Padres that he’s happy about being in 2nd Place?
I saw this play and asking anyone else didn’t anyone besides me think it was a sliding wrist injury.
Lol that’ll teach him for showboating because he really need to quit doing that. Tatis? Meet Karma. Treat it nicely or you’ll be in for a surprise. Well, you already are in one now.
talk about bad timing. if it happened one day before they could have traded for Trevor Story.
Would Story still be confused?
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Dodgers getting Trea Turner and Max Sherzer will make the Dodgers pretty difficult to defeat. I prefer to see a team that has never won a title get one this year.
The Padres, Brewers and Rays all have never won a title.
I think the odds are highest for the Brewers and Rays. If the Padres are going to make a run they need Tatis.
Really wow that’s some enlightening thoughts
20 errors is superb
If was the coaching staff of the Padres I would telling Tatis and teach him to slide feet first instead of diving head first that way it would save him from injuring his arm and shoulder and my be elbow.
He’s going to need to have that shoulder taken care of this offseason, unless he wants to have four trips to the IL every year. They’ll likely only become more frequent as he ages. The game is more interesting with Tatis, deGrom, etc. healthy and playing.
Tatis is the opposite of a hot dog. If you think that, stop. There have been few like him in any human endeavor. All the top skills and passions somehow given to one person.
If he can think it, his body does it. Talent like we’ve never seen. He is very large, not like Ohtani but much bigger than you think. Those ligaments are severely tested. Fast, nimble, can somehow still throw 95 over to first even given his lifelong genetic ligamentous laxity. Very smart.
No else could change their swing in a day and go from great to greater, while just trying to keep a shoulder in its socket. He has exuberance for baseball like no other.
He isn’t stupidly reckless, he’s a kid. Huge loss the time one of these episodes is the last. So I’m taking it in while we can.
Unfortunately of the 3 injuries this year this one seem the most violent and sever of the 3. April he injured it striking out, June he dove and injured it but seemed to be fine walking off the field not favoring the shoulder. This one he slide and injures his shoulder and then jams it into the ground again and is seen holding his arm as he walks off the field.
Also every time you reinjure the shoulder you risk doing more damage to the anterior labrum that may make it more difficult to repair. If I were Tatis Jr. I would just get it fixed, he’s got a long career to go playoff hunt or not, And yes I am an Orthopedic Surgeon who has done a Sports Medicine Fellowship so this is what I do for a living.
There is no doubt that Fernando Tatis Jr. is one of the top generational talents right now, but he seems like he can never stay healthy. Tatis seems to always injuries his shoulder and from my understanding he had shoulder issues in the minor leagues. In a way it seems like the Padres might have prematurely give Tatis that long term deal since he can never stay healthy. Time will only tell if Tatis can learn with not putting his body at risk with making a slide like that in the near future but his injury can be very costly for the Padres right now since they are in a playoff race and put a lot on the line to be a contender this year.
Idk…looked like a hustle play and a good slide. Just not a preferred slide for someone nursing a shoulder injury. Being more conservative at that point in the game may have been a better approach but he’s young and gifted and won’t learn what his limits are unless he pushes the envelope once in a while.
The aggressive play is most successful when it is unexpected.
An anticipated aggressive play also may effect an opposing player who has to hurry or think past the play at hand…
Thing is, the Padres had two aggressive plays result in outs at the plate then this Tatis thing all within a span of 3 games.
The scouting reports are in. Maybe time for a different approach that causes upheaval. Deke-outs and false starts on a tag up to get hurried throws into dugouts might be a start. Get the extra base with lower risk.
Amazing how some players hustle style of play gets them criticized but when they don’t hustle they get criticized.
Can’t win.
John Lennon said something to that effect, I believe
Which contract will look like a bust first tatis or yelich? Guys sign these massive contracts and getting hurt on a high note but when healthy they play well.
Tatis is 340 and Yelich 188