It's a shame we had to use Wade to get 1 out because CY put a 5 run lead in jeopardy. At this point, I don't know what can save him. He certainly isn't going to accept being optioned to Omaha.
Only thing would be a big break to rest his arm. Last couple years he hadn't pitched the whole season
The same surgery Matt Harvey just had too. Their hope is that he'll be ready for next season so that's a realistic timeline for Zimmer. Seems some guys don't fully recover from it (Chris Carpenter, Shaun Marcum) but he's young so age is definitely on his side.
That could explain a lot but it also could be the end for him. Unless there's some new miracle surgery this generally isn't true. They usually have to remove a rib and preform vascular surgery to take pressure off that vascular structure (I'm pretty sure that's what they did for Harvey). But I think you can't start rehab for a good 4-6 months afterwards. I already didn't expect to ever see him pitch at the MLB level and this almost cements the deal for me.
I read something that said the type of work he was having done had the shortest recovery? Apprently there's different types of surgeries for this injury. I'm just going off what I read this morning
I'm sure there's new and better methods. I heard the reports that Harvey wanted to be ready for next year and that amazed me just from what little I knew about that operation. Someone who tosses bp out there like Young could recover fine but I didn't think a power arm like Harvey could recover.
in a four day span I went from "maybe we should be buyers and grab some starting pitching" to "maybe it's time to dump some assets"
Manaea and Odorizzi faced off yesterday and both went 8 IP scoreless. We went to back to back WS and we have the Wader but man this team wouldn't look too back if we had Odorizzi, Montgomery and Myers on it right now. But if we would of kept them neither of the pitchers would of developed worth a shit.
Davis for Lucas Giolito. No way I'd do that if I were the nats. I'm expecting any other rumors out there are about the same. We won't do much unless we get a huge return or if we get a steal. Moore was on the radio and had some good comments imo. Basically said we aren't buyers or sellers but he's going to do whatever he can to help the team. If that means taking a step back this year to make the '17 or '18 squads better he said he'd do it.
dayton moore is gonna try and get an unrealistic return on these guys and end up fucking around and getting nothing
Yeah, there are going to be several teams in dire need of a closer. Who knows, maybe an NL team will try to counter the move the Cubs just made. Just wait for someone to overwhelm you and force your hand. If it happens, cool. If it doesn't, not the end of the world.
Took the dog on a walk. Got back still in the 1st inning. Losing 4-0 already. Good job Ian, good effort.
Our offense is bad and inconsistent enough without constantly being behind several runs before even coming to bat for the first time.
I know Kennedy has been struggling lately but isn't this pretty much what we signed up for? 1 K per inning, 4-4.50 ERA, 1.2-1.3 WHIP Sadly, those numbers command north of $12 million on the FA market. That's what happens when your hit rate on developing pitching is ~20%
Yeah, their handling of Mondesi has been incredibly baffling. Seems like they're always pushing him to a level 6 months too early.