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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
More On Gagné -- UPDATE
UPDATE: Gagné is on the 15-day DL according to AP. It is unknown whether he will need surgery, but he apparently has yet to be examined by Frank Jobe. The examination won't take place until next Tuesday.
By way of an extended update of Gagné's condition, two bits, the first from Blue Think Tank:
Gagné is replaced on the 25-man roster by Elmer Dessens.
By way of an extended update of Gagné's condition, two bits, the first from Blue Think Tank:
According to my friend who is a doctor, (He just passed his his boards in radiology and is moving on to a Fellowship in interventional radiology at Stanford. Congrats!) a second-degree sprain is a partial tear of anywhere from 1% to 99% with a chance to heal. My friend had a grimaced look when I told him the person was Gagne. That's not good. He looks at MRIs all day.And this in today's UTK:
One of the worst things a pitcher can do is overthrow. That taxing of the body just past its breaking point, where you ask it to do something it’s telling you that maybe you can, but you shouldn’t, is the most dangerous thing. It may come from someone trying too hard or because the structures of the body have changed, usually through injury, to not allow the same performance as before. There are also the in-game changes that fatigue wrings out of the body. For Eric Gagne, it appears that suggestions that his velocity was down led to one pitch made too hard. Reports conflict on the severity of Gagne's MRIs, but no one denies that he’s re-injured his elbow for the second time this year. It's also the second time the injury occurred directly over the Tommy John repair of nearly a decade ago. Gagne will see Dr. Frank Jobe on Wednesday. (One quick note: In an entire session at the NATA conference focusing on elbows, doctors, trainers, and therapists all agree that a physical exam and functional testing are preferable to an MRI for diagnostic purposes.) The worst-case scenario is a second ligament replacement and a lost year. We’ll know more soon.Let's keep our fingers crossed, Dodger fans.
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Posting here since the Jackson thread is locked:
Edwin Jackson is currently listed on the Suns roster, and Eric Stults was moved up to Las Vegas to take his place:
Suns Roster: http://tinyurl.com/79qga
51s Roster: http://tinyurl.com/8vgtg
So, it looks like the move is done. There seems like there's another move in order, perhaps pulling someone from the rotation in High-A up to AA. Edwin Jackson took Stult's rotation spot at AA, and Orenduff was moved to relief tonight. Thus, there is still one rotation slot open in AA (Billingsley, Jackson, Hanrahan, Hull, and ???). Additionally, there are currently six starters in Vero (Orenduff, Pimentel, Billingsley, Figueroa, Pilkington, and Kuo). Orenduff and Billingsley seem to be the two likeliest candidates to be moved up from Vero Beach based on their performance. Another intriguing candidate is Hong-Chih Kuo who is old for Vero Beach at 24 and has dominated in his 3 starts so far.
Edwin Jackson is currently listed on the Suns roster, and Eric Stults was moved up to Las Vegas to take his place:
Suns Roster: http://tinyurl.com/79qga
51s Roster: http://tinyurl.com/8vgtg
So, it looks like the move is done. There seems like there's another move in order, perhaps pulling someone from the rotation in High-A up to AA. Edwin Jackson took Stult's rotation spot at AA, and Orenduff was moved to relief tonight. Thus, there is still one rotation slot open in AA (Billingsley, Jackson, Hanrahan, Hull, and ???). Additionally, there are currently six starters in Vero (Orenduff, Pimentel, Billingsley, Figueroa, Pilkington, and Kuo). Orenduff and Billingsley seem to be the two likeliest candidates to be moved up from Vero Beach based on their performance. Another intriguing candidate is Hong-Chih Kuo who is old for Vero Beach at 24 and has dominated in his 3 starts so far.
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