Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
Pickoff Moves, Lunchtime Edition
Oh, That's Just Nutty
The Angels have chased another pitcher down to the minors, or at least, that's what I remember reading; I can't find any evidence that Scott Baker has been transliterated to AAA, and yet, Batgirl writes about that very probability, provided you can handle a magical, talking jockstrap.UTK Quickies
From today's UTK:- The Dodger saga continues, with more intrigue in the training room than on the field. Brad Penny stepped on a number of toes when he said that his shoulder had been hurting him for days, and that he'd fought through the pain in several starts. This was apparently news to the pitching coach, Rick Honeycutt, who quickly said that he wouldn’t send a pitcher out there who was hurting. I’m not sure if there are so many Dodgers in the training room that some never make it to the front of the line, but the culture that encourages people to push through injuries is never more evident than it is in Los Angeles. From Penny’s famous "one more" pitch in 2004 to the slagging of Yhency Brazoban to the stop-start rehab of Eric Gagne, the Dodgers remain a team with a history of injury problems. I’m not sure what the root of the problem is, but it shows up strongly on the DL day and dollar reports.
In the meantime, the Dodgers expect to have Jeff Kent back in the next couple days after a hand problem has held him out. Kent’s problem is in the "web" of the hand, between thumb and forefinger, and sounds a bit like DeQuervain’s syndrome, an inflammatory condition that can radiate into the wrist. I can’t find any comps in the database--and worse, my top research assistant has left for the summer to try and help a major league team--but the problem is usually controllable with cortisone injections. I’m not sure if this is the actual problem for Kent, so we’ll watch closely. I also failed to mention in yesterday’s report that Gagne wouldn’t be back until he’d served his two-game suspension for saying that an umpire’s mother smelled of elderberries.
- Begun the Sibling War has. Bartolo Colon will start his rehab on Thursday, taking a wrong turn into Cucamonga for a short stint. Assuming all goes well there, he’ll head to Salt Lake for a more extended outing, then back to Anaheim--or is it LA?--for a return to the Angels rotation around June 10th. The Angels have until then to sort out which of the Weavers they’ll keep in the rotation. The key to watch for from Colon in his first outing is velocity; he’ll need to be throwing in the 90s to show that his shoulder is back to normal, or close.
- Eric Chavez and Mark Ellis were both injured in Tuesday's game, Chavez on a hit-by-pitch that looks like it hit his hand, and Mark Ellis having jammed his thumb trying to get a double play. Both are scheduled to have X-rays done.
Update: Ellis will miss 3-6 weeks with a broken thumb.
Royals Fire GM Allard Baird
It took them this long?
Ellis hurt, expected to be DLd tomorrow.
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