Ryan Mountcastle 2023

[Sports Guy]

4 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

I would’ve thought he would’ve been deactivated longer. It doesn’t make a lot of sense for him to have been suffering from vertigo, then just throw him right back out there in AAA. 

If the crystals got back in alignment, there is no reason for him to not be playing.

[MCO'sFan]

I hope he gets healthy but I really, really don't want him on the big club anymore. I like the flexibility the platooning that is going on with Urias, Santander and O'Hearn provides to rotate guys in/out. Mounty can only play 1B and he just doesn't hit well enough at this point to stay on this team. 

[emmett16]

Mounty managed to pull his OPS up to .389 last night.  

[SpOkane]

I think I had vertigo last night.  Mounty stepping up to the plate? No way.  I couldn't step up to the dinner plate.

[Tony-OH]

I have no idea how bad this vertigo is for him or how long it's been going on before he said something, but Nick Esasky is an example of a perfectly good major league player who's career was derailed by this ailment.

I hope for him it's something he can overcome, but for now, I don't see a role for him on this team in it's current form.

[bpilktree]

5 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I have no idea how bad this vertigo is for him or how long it's been going on before he said something, but Nick Esasky is an example of a perfectly good major league player who's career was derailed by this ailment.

I hope for him it's something he can overcome, but for now, I don't see a role for him on this team in it's current form.

As someone that has been diagnosed with chronic vertigo it can be very devastating.  You feel fine one minute then just a slight look to the left or up and mine can start.  It can last just a few minutes hours or sometimes days were you just feel off sync.  Then it might go away for weeks at a time.  There have been a few players just recently like Clint Frazier and Austin Meadows and both those guys missed substantial time during the season for it.  Mountcastle could be back any day or he might not make it back this season if not worse as it is similar to concussions in that you don’t really know.  

[LA2]

3 hours ago, bpilktree said:

As someone that has been diagnosed with chronic vertigo it can be very devastating.  You feel fine one minute then just a slight look to the left or up and mine can start.  It can last just a few minutes hours or sometimes days were you just feel off sync.  Then it might go away for weeks at a time.  There have been a few players just recently like Clint Frazier and Austin Meadows and both those guys missed substantial time during the season for it.  Mountcastle could be back any day or he might not make it back this season if not worse as it is similar to concussions in that you don’t really know.  

Thanks for this personal account. I wish Ryan the best.

[LA2]

4 hours ago, emmett16 said:

Mounty managed to pull his OPS up to .389 last night.  

I like not to pick on people when they're ill.

[Frobby]

21 minutes ago, LA2 said:

I like not to pick on people when they're ill.

Do we know that he’s still ill?  I’d assume he isn’t, or he wouldn’t be on a rehab assignment.  

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Do we know that he’s still ill?  I’d assume he isn’t, or he wouldn’t be on a rehab assignment.  

Or be allowed anywhere near a batters box.

[Hank Scorpio]

2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Do we know that he’s still ill?  I’d assume he isn’t, or he wouldn’t be on a rehab assignment.  

Yeah if he's still ill, he should not be playing in baseball games. 

Who knows... as many have mentioned and from what I understand, vertigo is very intermittent and unpredictable. 

[LA2]

7 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Do we know that he’s still ill?  I’d assume he isn’t, or he wouldn’t be on a rehab assignment.  

Vertigo is not a normal malady. I wouldn't be surprised if he is shut down or seriously restricted in the coming weeks.

[Gurgi]

I had my head smashed into the curb during a bar fight twenty years ago.  It game me vertigo very badly every time i leaned my head back and looked up my head would start spinning until I changed the position.  I couldnt lay my head flat on a pillow or my head would spin.  Did all the checks with the hospital machines they found nothing wrong.   Had the problem for six months straight before it eased off....but it continued for the next three years.  But it also will come back every once in a while even today when My head rest on a pillow the wrong way.  The spinning comes back.  

I wish Mountcastle all the best.  It really does suck having vertigo.

Edited June 30, 2023 by Gurgi

[Frobby]

15 minutes ago, LA2 said:

Vertigo is not a normal malady. I wouldn't be surprised if he is shut down or seriously restricted in the coming weeks.

Well, we don’t have any information about how long it bothered him and whether it’s bothering him now, so I’m not going to speculate about it.  In any event, he was 0 for 14 last week and is 3 for 9 this week, so hopefully he’s feeling good now and is shaking off the rust.  Assuming he’s okay, I’d still want to see him dominating at AAA before he returns to the major league team.  If that means optioning him to AAA when his rehab time is used up, so be it.  

[emmett16]

3 hours ago, LA2 said:

I like not to pick on people when they're ill.

That’s fair.  I don’t know much about vertigo but my assumption was he was healthy enough to play.  Point taken on kicking someone while they are down.