Tom Brennan - OH, THE STRAIN, THE STRAIN
Doctor Smith, on the old 1960s sci fi TV series Lost In Space, used to frequently moan, "Oh, the pain, the pain."
With the Mets, it's more like "Oh, the strain, the strain."
Here we go again with yet another Mets oblique strain.
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Last season, the Swarzak Oblique Strain Saga lasted for quite a few months. Destroyed his season, by and large.
Todd Frazier timed his better, though, with almost 5 weeks left before real games start. Right...like a hitter can time something like an oblique Injury. But better in the spring training period than the season itself.
Writer Lindsay Berra, in an April 2017 article for MLB.com, wrote the following about oblique strains:
"While the 10-day DL is the most common starting point for oblique injuries, Conte's study showed that hitters typically took 27 days to recover, while pitchers took 35...though more mild strains can certainly be resolved in just a few days. However, those with oblique injuries often see setbacks on the road to recovery. While players may pass exams on the training table, the speed and power needed to play simply cannot be reproduced in that setting. Rehab is especially difficult with hitters, who have a harder time with partial-effort swings than pitchers do with just playing catch.
"Pitchers can throw lightly, do some long toss, do things that use the same motion as pitching but are less stressful," Reinold said. "But with hitters, hitting causes the injury, we're getting them back to hitting, and trying to swing a bat lightly against live pitching is just a very difficult thing to do. Sometimes the comeback is a little too fast, and we'll find out quickly they're not 100 percent.""
An MLB glossary also noted that "severe strains can require surgery with a recovery time of 3-4 months."
So, maybe it won't be long, but an non-oblique knee injury to Iron Man Jed Lowrie, followed by this injury to former Iron Man Todd Frazier, before the arrival of March makes a Mets fan wonder if the Mets injuries jinx will ever really end for the Mets.
After all, METS stands for Multiple Extensive Trauma Syndrome. Or at least it seems to.
11 comments:
The Mets seem cursed, don't they?
I would love to see the team stay healthy for a full season and play up to their potential.
Brodie should arrange for a late night "exorcism" in the middle of CitiField to make things right!
Mike, I think what happen is the devil showed up in Oct 1986 and said to someone on the Mets, "I can make that ball 'get by Buckner' and you can win this World Series, but it will cost you for decades." And someone was desperate enough to say yes.
Which is the clear cause of all the freaky injuries, Zeile's ball hitting the top edge of the wall and staying in, very possibly costing the Mets that later World Series against the Yanks, etc. Etc. Etc.
I just hoped we could stay fully healthy until March 1 - not.
Thought I would look at how our traded prospects are doing.
Kelenic 0-1, Adolph and Santana do not seem to have gotten in any games yet.
Justin Dunn, 3 IP, 1 hit, no runs or walks, 2 Ks
Mike
The Mets aren't cursed because they sign 30+ year old vets...
They are stupid
Frazier getting hurt is a positive development. This was the guy Brodie couldn't dump . . . yet.
It opens up space for McNeil, Davis, and Alonso. All three guys I'd much rather see than .215 Todd Frazier.
However, there's nothing stupid about signing 30-year-old vets. Who else is there to sign? I don't see 24-year-olds hitting free agency. So any team that uses free agency to support the roster is automatically going to sign a veteran player. That's how baseball works. That's who is available for only money: veterans.
When the farm system is below average, when there are no answers down there, a team has to either make a painful trade or sign a veteran. The trick is signing the right guy at the right terms.
Frazier's price wasn't bad. He was a terrible fit for the team. At a 2-year deal, I don't think his age was really the problem.
Now maybe the argument here is to not sign anyone, ever. It's not an argument I'd make, especially when, again, you have an inferior pipeline of young talent. So you sign some vets here and there. It's not "stupid" as a strategy. How else to you get players?
Jimmy P
Frazier's absence could be a plus. Hopefully, 2019 is a year where JD Davis blossoms and significantly surpasses what an aging, injury-prone Todd Frazier would provide.
@Jimmy P -- Well, Manny Machado and Bryce Harper weren't exactly senior citizens -- 26 years old IIRC.
True, Mack.......but they have had some other "bad breaks" that make you wonder sometimes (i.e. DW getting injured right after inking an extension).
Signing fragile players adds to the issue, for sure.
Fragile is: mets are reported to sign Carlos Gomez pending physical.
Gomez hits so little, his bat has little chance of getting injured
Good job Tom, in the post and the comments. Preller, you’re right.
Frazier is another idiot player that couldn’t adapt to what the other team is doing. For the life of him, he refuses to use right field because he’s too busy showing the world what a “power hitter” he is; so, he keeps getting himself out. I didn’t like the signing; I didn’t like the Bruce trade or the resigning; I liked the Vargas signing... So, I guess nobody is perfect.
Frazier is too busy palling up with reporters to actual work on his game.
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