Manny Machado expected to have surgery on knee within a week.

[Satyr3206]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Manny Machado knew weeks ago he needed surgery but did everything possible to avoid it. Knee just never got better. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a></p>— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href="

">August 23, 2014</a></blockquote>

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This makes me wonder on numerous levels. I'll leave it at that tonight.

[Tx Oriole]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Source: Manny Machado expected to have surgery on knee within a week. Likely lost for the season. Big hit for O's.</p>? Tim Brown (@TBrownYahoo) <a href="

">August 22, 2014</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>LA orthopedic surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache, who did surgery on Machado's left knee in '13, expected to do surgery on right.</p>? Tim Brown (@TBrownYahoo) <a href="

">August 22, 2014</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Upside on Machado surgery: Small abnormality found in left knee also exists in right. That will be fixed during surgery.</p>? Tim Brown (@TBrownYahoo) <a href="

">August 22, 2014</a></blockquote>

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Oh crap.

[john316]

Beltre seems to be the player du jour.

Well...he is "The best defensive third baseman of all time....sorry Brooksie".

Source...Carl Ripken.

[Tx Oriole]

Bill Ripkin just killed the Orioles. He said no way we go deep in playoffs now.

That's just stupid for him to say that. We'll miss Manny but one man doesn't makes team.

[Morgan423]

This makes me wonder on numerous levels. I'll leave it at that tonight.

Pretty sure "weeks" is a misspeak done to make the character limit... "from the time of the injury" is too wordy. The injury occurred August 11, and if his knee was flaring badly enough prior to that to make him think it was showing the same symptoms that the other one did, he sure wasn't showing it on the field.

[ExileAngelos]

Looks like after a 3 hour frenzy this thread has settled down

[LarryHarlow]

That's a strength of schedule fluke.

Overall Opponent winning % in the games Manny missed = .491

Opponent winning % in the games Manny played = .509

So our opponents record in games he played vs in games he didn't is virtually the same, no?

[Tx Oriole]

8 days to make a move. There is no one already within the organization that is a viable replacement.

Now that's just being silly.

[Jagwar]

IMO, if it is possible, Duquette really has to find a third baseman. Not to replace Machado, but to get other players back into their normal roles.

[Morgan423]

So our opponents record in games he played vs in games he didn't is virtually the same, no?

No, it isn't virtually the same. The average record in baseball (all teams averaged together) is always exactly .500 because all teams play the same amount of games, and there's always a winner and a loser (no ties in non-exhibition baseball). Because of that fact the difference between 49% WP and 51% WP is quite significant when you're talking about a large collection of opponents.

[Satyr3206]

No, it isn't virtually the same. The average record in baseball (all teams averaged together) is always exactly .500 because all teams play the same amount of games, and there's always a winner and a loser (no ties in non-exhibition baseball). Because of that fact the difference between 49% WP and 51% WP is quite significant when you're talking about a large collection of opponents.

Then why don't all teams finish within a few games of each other?

[Oriolesallday]

Who the heck jinxed us

[ExileAngelos]

What about Casey McGehee? He would be a less expensive solution to the problem. Is this even a possibility?

[ExileAngelos]

Then why don't all teams finish within a few games of each other?

LOL yeah I am really not sure where he is going with that average baseball record argument

[Morgan423]

Then why don't all teams finish within a few games of each other?

Because not every team plays the exact same opponents over their 162 games.