Kyle Bradish Has Sprained UCL, Will Start Season On IL (4/9 Update: Assigned rehab assignment w/Aberdeen)

[Sports Guy]

1 minute ago, RVAOsFan said:

Means also behind schedule.  Not great.

But we should extend him!  Lol

[Aristotelian]

This has got to be an April fools joke. How do you get injured before spring training has started?

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, RVAOsFan said:

Means also behind schedule.  Not great.

Where did you read this?

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Ugh…well, this is why I said we needed to add 1 and really 2 new starters.

Cease thread about to get to 400 pages!

Yep, we had insane luck with starters health last year and now we’re down 2 the first week of spring which were already known to the team.

[ThisIsBirdland]

Just now, Tony-OH said:

I hope they are right because they know way more about the sprain then we do, but they tried this treatment stuff with Tate last year and he missed the whole year and who knows how he'll look this year. 

I hope he'll be fine but I'm going into this thinking they are delaying the inevitable just like they did with Bautista. The problem is the timing. If they wait until April or May to have the surgery, that's part of 2025 missed as well. 

Pretty sure they've evaluated the odds of success versus when they can expect a return. I imagine having a successful PRP therapy and a return at some point in 2024 has a tremendous amount of upside versus missing a couple months in 2025. Can't let Tate and Bautista serve as anecdotal reasons not to try to salvage 2024 if there's a decent chance he can make it back.

[Can_of_corn]

10 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Ugh…well, this is why I said we needed to add 1 and really 2 new starters.

Cease thread about to get to 400 pages!

Going to add 30 pages to the Cease thread on the WS board.

[RVAOsFan]

2 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Where did you read this?

 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

This has got to be an April fools joke. How do you get injured before spring training has started?

Zach Britton.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, RVAOsFan said:

 

That's fine, he wasn't going to be the OD starter anyway.

[sportsfan8703]

From the same article...

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/02/orioles-kyle-bradish-ucl-sprain-elbow-injured-list.html#respond

-  Gunnar Henderson is behind schedule due to an oblique injury that’ll still need another two to three weeks of downtime

-  Samuel Basallo, meanwhile, has a stress fracture in his throwing elbow and will be limited to DH work in camp. He could begun throwing again by late April

-  John Means is about a month behind the rest of the O’s starters, as the team had him delay the start of his offseason program after an elbow flare-up prior to last year’s ALDS 

[Tony-OH]

Just now, ThisIsBirdland said:

Pretty sure they've evaluated the odds of success versus when they can expect a return. I imagine having a successful PRP therapy and a return at some point in 2024 has a tremendous amount of upside versus missing a couple months in 2025. Can't let Tate and Bautista serve as anecdotal reasons not to try to salvage 2024 if there's a decent chance he can make it back.

Like I said, they know more about the injury then me, but I have very little hope that PRP therapy actually works on major league pitchers long term. I hope they are right because losing Bradish for this season and part of next would be a gigantic blow.

[Aristotelian]

2 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Where did you read this?

It's in the MLBTR article. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/02/orioles-kyle-bradish-ucl-sprain-elbow-injured-list.html#respond

My favorite sentence in the Elias quote. If anyone tries to read anything concrete into Elias's statements I think we will be able to point back to this one:

The GM struck an optimistic tone, noting that “everything is pointing in the right direction” for the talented right-hander.

[sportsfan8703]

Means is out to start the season too.  Cease trade?  Montgomery or Snell signing?  Wells to SP?  Irvin SP?

[RVAOsFan]

I guess if he’s starting a throwing program tomorrow we should know soon if the injection worked or if he will be shut down.

[interloper]

Just now, sportsfan8703 said:

Means is out to start the season too.  Cease trade?  Montgomery or Snell signing?  Wells to SP?  Irvin SP?

Down 2 starters for at least the first month of the season. The bullpen cannot absorb both Wells and Irvin starting. We have to make some kind of move here.