If ever again.Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishDavidKY
Two major arm surgeries on your pitching arm is not good.
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If ever again.Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishDavidKY
Two major arm surgeries on your pitching arm is not good.
Even Paul got more time out of his armQuote:
Originally Posted by RedsManRick
It's official. Claussen is done for the year.
That's too bad....I hope he can recover.
This is really a shame.... Claussen is a very nice guy. My prayers are with him!!
http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/NASAp...=.jsp&c_id=cin
Per the Reds website
Quote:
CINCINNATI -- Reds starting pitcher Brandon Claussen will have arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
On Monday, Claussen decided to have the procedure done after he spent a month on a rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Louisville. The left-hander has been on the disabled list since June 17 with what was first diagnosed as rotator cuff tendinitis.
Team medical director Dr. Tim Kremchek will perform the surgery, possibly this week. It could take six weeks of rehabilitation before Claussen could resume baseball activities.
"It'll just clean out some of the 'junk' inside his shoulder that a pitcher sometimes gets and won't quite let him get over the hump," Kremchek said Monday night.
An MRI taken in June revealed damage to Claussen's labrum and rotator cuff. He took a cortisone shot and originally opted for rehabilitation.
"I want to get it fixed," Claussen said. "I knew there was a problem there before. Taking a pill is not going to reattach my labrum. I wanted to exercise every option I possibly could before I did it."
In five rehab starts for Louisville, Claussen was 0-2 with an 8.34 ERA and 31 hits allowed over 22 2/3 innings. He also struggled before his injury, going 3-8 with a 6.19 ERA in 14 starts this season for the Reds.
The final day of Claussen's 30-day rehab assignment was Monday. The club would have had to make a roster move on Tuesday if Claussen returned.
"The main thing is for him to have peace of mind and get the surgery done so he'll be ready to go at Spring Training," Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky said. "That's the best thing for him so he can get as much rehab time as possible. We would have liked to have had him available as a starter, but it's not going to happen."
Before this season, Claussen never had any shoulder problems. In 2002, he had Tommy John surgery on his left elbow to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament.
you stay classy...Quote:
Originally Posted by keeganbrick
:thumbdown
Another reason why Lopez/Kearns trade was so pitiful.
2 lower paid starters and you get no pitching? Not evern Armas or Patterson.
Now next year we go with Arroyo, Harang, Milton, Lizard and ???. Lohse, Dumtrait, etc...
That trade will go down as an all-time terrible idea.
Maybe he and Paul Wilson can buy a sandwich shop together. I guess that explains why his "stuff" has been garbage.
I guess I don't see how this post is any better than saying, "good news."Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Clark
One guy says good news, as in, good news, the guys stuff is garbage, why do we want him, and he is ripped to shreds and probably loses rep points.
Both posters are saying the guy is garbage but only one is being called out for it.
Can someone explain that?
Give the guy a break.
Not sure how you get that I am personally calling Claussen garbage. He sure pitched that way but at least everyone now knows why. The guy pitched hurt. You have to commend a guy to some degree for doing that. He still has a future in this game. Don't lump me in with somebody else. I can stand on my own.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaineRed
best of luck to Brandon Claussen, he had a tough year, but was always a stand up guy about it.
I said "good news", thats it. Was it sarcastic, in a way I guess. The point being he is having surgery to hopefully fix part of his problem. Obviously something was wrong because he was getting killed in AAA as well. I really dont understand why everyone is getting pissed about it(well I can in a way). If I offended anyone, my apologies.
I wasn't trying to misquote you TC. Obviously when talking about a pitcher and then using the term garbage, you are talking about his stuff, not him personally. I thought that was obvious. Sorry for any confusion.
My point was, that depending on your perception of what was said, saying, "good news", is the same as saying, "his stuff is garbage".
I was just trying to point out that you could say the same thing and nobody would blink but this other guy is getting eaten alive.
I don't think he is saying, "good news, I was hoping for an injury," but rather, "good news that there is a reason for his struggles.
No harm meant.
I read a lot of off the wall stuff on this board. A LOT! Stuff that just doesn't even make sense most of the time, BUT.. I rarely if ever say anything BECAUSE it's that person's opinion. They are entitled to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by keeganbrick
I read your post and did not take it any other way than it was "good news" that he was getting surgery. Short and sweet. I made a post, with a slight joke about Paul Wilson and then said at least we know why he was throwing like "garbage". Somehow you and I are now blasphemers and need to stay classy! :thumbdown Can you believe that?
Sometimes the board gets to a point where it's like a 13 year old girl smart mouthing her parents. She goes on and on maybe for weeks until a correction is made. Then she cries and does the "I hate you" dance. The board in large sections, IMO, has been really busy doing the I hate you dance. It's really sad. McGwire is a jerk, Krivksy should be fired, Phillips sucks, Hatteberg is too old, Aurilia can't hit, Freel should play SS, Clayton should retire. (Meanwhile the Reds are in the playoff hunt in August) Hardly anything positive. I am sure I have fallen victim too. Really makes you think about whether or not you want to post.
If you didn't have the quality posters out there to corral the total BS that gets put out then nobody would post here. Like RFS62 said to me a few weeks ago "It only takes one or two to make it bad for everyone else" How true.