The Mets have announced that RHP Orlando Hernandez has been put on the disabled list with bursitis in his shoulder. The team has announced that RHP Chan Ho Park, who had been slated to start for Triple-A tonight, will start tonight in place of Hernandez. In four starts in Triple-A this season, Park is 3?1 with 7.29 ERA. He has allowed 17 earned runs in his last 15 innings pitched.
Have you seen Duque's birth certificate? It was inevitable that this would happen, and now we see what the lack of depth in the Mets' starting position will mean.
Hernandez is at least, at LEAST, 5 years older than he claims. And I'm giving him quite a bit of leeway with that estimate. I wouldn't stress it if I were you guys though. IMO, the Mets are the team to beat in the NL. We just might see you guys show Boston that '86 wasn't a fluke.
How short can your memory possibly be? ESPN Updated: Aug. 21, 2006, 3:14 PM ET NEW YORK -- The New York Times reported Sunday night that an ultrasound and a magnetic resonance imaging test Friday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan revealed a problem. Glavine is scheduled to have an angiogram on his left shoulder on Monday or Tuesday to see if there is blockage of an artery. "There's something in my artery that concerns them, but to this point in time, we don't know exactly what it is," Glavine told the Times. "And we're not going to know until I get the angiogram done." Glavine's injury was first reported by the New York Daily News on Sunday. He said the injury was not life-threatening. The Daily News reported that doctors are unsure whether Glavine's problem is related to a blood clot or possibly a "knot" in an artery near his left shoulder. A clot could be addressed with medication while a knot may require an invasive procedure to correct. Doctors apparently have ruled out an aneurysm, the newspaper reported. Last year, Mets reliever Felix Heredia experienced coldness and numbness in his pitching hand and ultimately was diagnosed with an aneurysm in the shoulder, which ended his Mets career.
The next day they said that it wasn't serious, and would be treated with baby aspirin. He didn't miss a start in September or October of 2006 or April of 2007, so to put him with Alou as potentially injury-prone doesn't seem too reasonable to me. He's 41 years old, so the chances are certainly there for an injury, but I don't believe that the incident last August really has any effect on that.
Agreed. My main point should have been expressed more clearly - that is that professional athletes over 40 years of age have a much greater propensity to break down than younger athletes. Actually the official announcement said "the condition will be treated with baby aspirin AND OTHER MEDICATIONS..." Sports aside, I don't think we should trivialize when somebody's left arm goes numb, especially after 40. Of course, someone will make the point that this medical condition was not an injury, but I don't intend to split hairs about it.
We have guys in the minors. Losing El Duque isint the end of the world. Also, Pedro comes back in july/august.
El Duque will miss two starts only...maybe. He'll be eligible to come off the DL on May 11. No surprise whatsoever that he went on the DL this season. It's his modus operandi.
I'm not holding out any hope for Martinez. I doubt he's going to have much left. I'm hoping the Angels break free from the Athletics. Then the Athletics may look to unload Danny Haren in July. Tongue Boy and Milledge for Haren with maybe others players thrown in on both sides works for me. I now am fine with the Mets trading Milledge mainly because of farm boys Carlos Gomez and Fernando Martinez. Livan Hernandez would also be a possibility if I'm wrong about my NLCS prediction (Mets over Arizona). Steve Trachsel may be available later this season, as well.
