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

[spleen1015]

1 minute ago, TopGunnar said:

Sure. It is a significant number. But we were talking about elbow only. He said every pitchers arm “breaks”. Which isn’t even close to being accurate. Sorry if we disagree 

Congrats.

[ScGO's]

7 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I'd kick the tires on that honestly. 

This makes so much sense now. You could make this move, have it disappear from the news in 3 days, and still have a lot of flexibility to bring on one more power reliever and maybe make a play on more starting pitcher. THings like this show the need for depth.

If I'm in charge:

Sign Bauer, 1 year league min + incentives (hold him to his word)

Trade McKenna, Urias, Webb to Boston for Jensen and salary

Trade Cowser, Norby, Baumann, Haskin to MIL for Devin Williams

Sign Ryu for 1 year 9 mil

[TopGunnar]

1 minute ago, spleen1015 said:

Congrats.

Thanks man. Means a lot to me.

[Can_of_corn]

5 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

1/3 is indeed a significant number.

I think the argument was the statement all pitchers should just get TJ surgery from the start.  Which they should not, for various reasons, including this stat.

Having TJ surgery doesn't prevent you from needing it in the future.

[glenn__davis]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

Having TJ surgery doesn't prevent you from needing it in the future.

Of course.  So, another reason why that argument doesn't make sense.

[Sports Guy]

4 minutes ago, ScGO's said:

This makes so much sense now. You could make this move, have it disappear from the news in 3 days, and still have a lot of flexibility to bring on one more power reliever and maybe make a play on more starting pitcher. THings like this show the need for depth.

If I'm in charge:

Sign Bauer, 1 year league min + incentives (hold him to his word)

Trade McKenna, Urias, Webb to Boston for Jensen and salary

Trade Cowser, Norby, Baumann, Haskin to MIL for Devin Williams

Sign Ryu for 1 year 9 mil

Why would Boston make that trade?

[TopGunnar]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

Having TJ surgery doesn't prevent you from needing it in the future.

That’s not the point guy. The point is thousands of pitchers have pitched 10+ years in professional baseball and left the game not needing the surgery. This isn’t a difficult point I’m trying to make. What’s the issue?

[Ripken]

1 minute ago, Sports Guy said:

Why would Boston make that trade?

Because they know how well McKenna plays the OF in Fenway?

[ThisIsBirdland]

Attention body language and speech interpretation experts! We need everyone's panic/BS detection analysis from Elias' remarks!

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, ThisIsBirdland said:

Attention body language and speech interpretation experts! We need everyone's panic/BS detection analysis from Elias' remarks!

They are all busy watching Fujinami's bullpen session.

Edited February 15 by Can_of_corn

[DrinkinWithFermi]

49 minutes ago, ThisIsBirdland said:

Yeah this just doesn't justify your statement that (and I'm paraphrasing) "we absolutely know TJS is where this is going", in my opinion.

None of us know the details of the sprain, or the actual success rate of PRP technology in 2024. This study was circulated on twitter this morning and it shows reasonably high odds for success for low-grade sprains:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33796592/

I have no idea how credible it is. But given Elias' comments that they're pursuing this approach with some level of optimism, I'm just not ready to say TJS is absolutely where this is going.

[Sports Guy]

 

[Sports Guy]

16 minutes ago, ThisIsBirdland said:

Attention body language and speech interpretation experts! We need everyone's panic/BS detection analysis from Elias' remarks!

He certainly didn’t project someone who is super happy imo.

Edited February 15 by Sports Guy

[Moose Milligan]

33 minutes ago, TopGunnar said:

Yes I stated in my post before. What percent of professional pitchers end up getting Tommy John surgery would you say ?

Dude, do your own research.  

[ThisIsBirdland]

1 minute ago, Sports Guy said:

He certainly didn’t projecting someone who is super happy imo.

There's the good stuff. Why wasn't Elias more upbeat in the press conference announcing his CYA finalist had no timetable as to when he'd pitch this season?