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

[DrinkinWithFermi]

1 minute ago, spleen1015 said:

Better sign Snell or Montgomery.

Ain't happening, but Ryu or Lorenzen might be options for us.

[forphase1]

Man, what a buzzkill.  

[interloper]

1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

Good Lord, this is about the worse news possible on opening day of camp. How in the world do you sprain your UCL over the offseason?

Wow, what a bummer. Guess Elias better get on the phone and get something done or Tyler Wells/Cole Irvin just became starter candidates.

Elias has known since January. I think a move would have been made since then, but maybe not. 

I would take Lorenzen at this point just to support the pitching staff and keep Wells in the bullpen where he's sorely needed. 

[DrinkinWithFermi]

Just now, forphase1 said:

Man, what a buzzkill.  

Yup. 

So much for that mouth-watering 1-2 punch of Burnes and Bradish.

[AdamK]

This was known in January. Wonder if it influenced our Burnes package.

[Snutchy]

Very smart to keep this down until now. The price of Burnes would have been much higher. 

[Sports Guy]

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!

Edited February 15 by Sports Guy

[Snutchy]

2 minutes ago, AdamK said:

This was known in January. Wonder if it influenced our Burnes package.

I think keeping it close to the vest kept his price down. I don’t think they’re overly concerned about the injury because they wouldn’t have traded DL. 

[Frobby]

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s buzzkill news on the first day of camp.   Dear God!    

[Snutchy]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s buzzkill news on the first day of camp.   Dear God!    

I’d rather settle for Dexter Fowler randomly showing up at the Cubs camp over this. 

[ThisIsBirdland]

 

Fingers crossed.

[Orioles0615]

Need to go get another starting pitcher ASAP. And a real one, not some waiver wire we can fix him bs

[Tony-OH]

4 minutes ago, interloper said:

Elias has known since January. I think a move would have been made since then, but maybe not. 

I would take Lorenzen at this point just to support the pitching staff and keep Wells in the bullpen where he's sorely needed. 

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. 

[RVAOsFan]

Means also behind schedule.  Not great.

[Sports Guy]

A sprain is a tear.  So he has a torn UCL ligament.