6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: The Big A: House of Pain?

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Monday, February 23, 2004

The Big A: House of Pain?

Last year, the Angels got bit by injuries, hard:

Eckstein, with an injured hip
Erstad, with his hamstrings going out again
Percival, with a degenerative hip condition
Brad Fullmer, who ripped a patella on a bad play at first
Tim Salmon, with back problems
Washburn, with shoulder problems acquired in ST
Benjie Molina, who broke his wrist during a game
Kennedy, who pulled his hamstrings early in the season
Sele, whose injured shoulder left him all but ineffective

If injuries were bad luck last year, or in Erstad's case, just the rent coming due, then it's no good omen to read that Colón reported to camp overweight. While you don't want to believe every story that hits the press, you do have to worry about little omens like that one. The Angels site quoted Mike Scioscia on Washburn's shoulder problems as saying "His velocity was good and his pitch count was where we needed it. ... He'll be fine." Maybe so, but there are fine distinctions in "fine", and that Jarrod was not last year.

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