Eflin on the injured list….

[eddie83]

1 minute ago, glenn__davis said:

Well there's only one thing left to do.  

Win the whole Eflin thing. 

There it is!!! We needed a slogan. Buckle Up ….

[oriolediehard]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

So why would the cosmic concept of Karma favor them?

Their fame started with Babe Ruth, they got him for money from the Red Sox, a lot a players feel special to put on their uniform.  There's a movie pride of the Yankees. They are the most famous team in all sports.  People in the UK wear a Yankee cap.

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, oriolediehard said:

Their fame started with Babe Ruth, they got him for money from the Red Sox, a lot a players feel special to put on their uniform.  There's a movie pride of the Yankees. They are the most famous team in all sports.  People in the UK wear a Yankee cap.

And why would karma care?

[SteveA]

7 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Our IL rotation is pretty solid..GRod, Bradish, Eflin, Means and Wells.

 

Yeah, with Webb, Coulombe, and Bautista for the 7th/8th/9th.

If all those 8 guys were 100% healthy, even if they were all we had, no Burnes or anyone else on the staff, we might be still in the top half of the 12 teams going into the postseason based on the Top 8 Pitchers who would probably pitch 95+% of a team's competitive innings in the postseason.

[Aristotelian]

I wonder if this explains the decision to pull Eflin after 6 in his last start. If the inflammation is unrelated, pulling him may have been quite prescient of Hyde.

[bpilktree67]

I keep thinking just hold on a little longer til we get healthy.  In June I said just get to the break in the hunt and with Kremer coming back in form it will help.  Then it was ok let’s get to the deadline and we can add some reinforcements to help the rotations.  We traded for Eflin and I was excited about 3 days because we had a solid top 3.  Then GRod goes down right after and it was ok back to two guys in rotation.  They said GRod was not as bad as originally thought over weekend and again 3 days later we lose Eflin.  We are not getting healthier as time goes.  

[Gurgi]

This does seem like the beginning of the end.  I pray they do some miracle stuff like Povich putting on the glass slipper and it freaking fitting.  

[Ohfan67]

5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

And why would karma care?

Because karma’s a b****

[OriolesMagic83]

I think God hates us.  If you don't believe in God, then the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Mother Nature.

This is like 5 years of injuries combined in 1 year.  Why couldn't this happen in 2019 or 2021?

[oriolediehard]

7 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

And why would karma care?

I meant bad luck for us.

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, oriolediehard said:

I meant bad luck for us.

What did the Orioles do to get a bad karmic result?

There isn't anything supernatural going on, it's just bad luck.

[allquixotic]

At some point you have to wonder if it’s the training or coaching that is causing these pitchers to drop like flies. They’ve been absolutely demolished by injury - with a ridiculous number of TJ surgeries. 

Someone needs to figure out what we’re doing wrong with player coaching/development/training and Stop Doing That. I don’t care if their ERAs go up. I’d rather have a healthy team with a higher ERA than losing a pitcher every 3-6 weeks to TJ. This is madness.

[Campmoon]

3 minutes ago, allquixotic said:

At some point you have to wonder if it’s the training or coaching that is causing these pitchers to drop like flies. They’ve been absolutely demolished by injury - with a ridiculous number of TJ surgeries. 

Someone needs to figure out what we’re doing wrong with player coaching/development/training and Stop Doing That. I don’t care if their ERAs go up. I’d rather have a healthy team with a higher ERA than losing a pitcher every 3-6 weeks to TJ. This is madness.

Rays passed along data to the Orioles along with Eflin and some subliminal injury messaging.

[eddie83]

Hyde indicated in interview I just saw on pregame show that he doesn’t think Eflin will be having any extra imaging/testing  done. Just have to wait until soreness goes down. 

[Morgan423]

1 hour ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Is Spenser Watkins available?  Not joking. 

At this point I'd take Stevie Wilkerson.  Surely he can be conditioned to throw that weird mutated eephus quasi-knuckleball thing 90 times every five days.