Assuming we have no more major injuries, this offense should still have plenty of punch without him. We gonna start losing players, and ownership is really taking it on the chin financially right now. We will really need him in the coming years, so let him get completely healthy.
Yup, which is why some in the organization are glad that they found something and will be doing surgery. FWIW his knee problem goes back BEFORE AA, when the Dodgers signed him, he had already complained of right knee issues and scouts noted he seemed stiff on the right leg.....
If it's a congenital cartilage problem then he's basically ****ed. He'll be another Carlos Hernandez couldabeen.
He still wants to play the field and last I heard they will still give him a chance to do so. He had lost a lot of weight and had toned up pre-covid. The type of injury he has is such that he will likely be better on the field than he has been in awhile and the chance of reinjury is low. If anything will keep him from playing the field it will be his recovery time.
Yes, that and there are and have been some concerns about it being something degenerative or arthritic (although the scans have not shown arthritic damage). My GUESS is that he has always had something in the knee a little off, and it has progressively gotten worse with use. It would also explain why it would improve with rest and then get worse with use. He would swell up bad. Last year down the stretch it was really bad, any twists would make it worse and it was really impacting him in the box. They were already looking at possible exploratory surgery this off season to see if maybe cleaning it up would help. Then it got worse, and he obviously partially tore it. The good news is it is only a partial tear, so his recovery time shouldn't be as bad and the impact not as bad.
Yep, that's what I meant by congenital. I'm no 20-something pro athlete, but speaking as a guy with a fubar'd left knee and a lesser fubar'd right knee, I can go take BP or play in the batting cage for a bit, and then I need 3 days off because my knees are swollen all to hell. It's the front/plant leg that gets you. Bowling is the same.
Hate losing him, but the silver lining is hopefully this is what’s wrong with his knee. Correctable issue vs a degenerative issue.
So if Yordan only plays every 3 games or so he’s still good for what 30 homers and 100 rbis? I’ll take it.
I don't know anything, please don't listen to me, but a one-legged-Yordan is better than a whole lot of other people.
