It really is insane the incompetence the Astros medical team continues to exhibit. I’m trying not to lump in Dana Brown and the front office, but this is unacceptable. I have so many questions… They are just NOW seeing a specialist? After 9 weeks? Was the imaging clear when he started taking live BP? Was it sore? And if so why even swing? Is Alvarez’s pain tolerance just extremely low? Should I evacuate Katy?
Incorrect. He was taking batting practice on the field at Daikin Park on Saturday without issue. He went to Florida to start facing live pitching. On Monday he did some "baseball activities" and woke up the next day with his hand feeling sore. Also, Dana Brown clearly says he will see ANOTHER specialist. So yes he has seen a specialist.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that the medical staff is giving the FO options on how to proceed and the FO always chooses the most aggressive option provided even though it keeps blowing up their in their faces.
I refuse to believe the medical staff of an MLB franchise is that incompetent. Either the Astros have a rash of players going against medical advice and they’re trying to cover for them, or there is some unknown reasons the Astros are intentionally misleading people regarding the severity of their players’ injuries.
There is not a competitive advantage of letting people know the severity of player injuries. I think baseball players get dinged up, and that there is a tough guy culture in baseball to try to play through stuff. With the Astros having older batters, and pitchers that pitch, injuries should be expected. I can't judge the quality of the Astros medical staff. I can say the Astros likely don't care about the quality of the injury information that is given out to the public as long as they don't get their hand slapped by MLB.
Are we sure about that? Alvarez has had hand issues for a LONG time. Easily could have had a procedure in November of these seasons and be ready for sometime early in the season assuming worst case scenario. None of it makes sense.
Bone on bone knees…. Hands that have been partially fractured and arthritic for years…. Turns out the real scandal was Yordan came over from Cuba as a 40 year old.
Why is everyone blaming the medical staff? They aren't the ones getting injured just swinging a bat, or sliding into 2nd base. The staff can't STOP guys that are injury prone.....sure they can get better at diagnosis, but it isn't going to make players healthier or get back sooner. Yordan is getting himself injured, all the damned time......and it seems that just SWINGING a bat breaks his hand......I mean...wtf can the medical staff do about that? Force him to drink milk? DD
Re Aggravation of injuries actually prevents guys from getting back sooner. Not sure what in the world you are talking about here?
Not really, you get diagnosed, when the pain goes away you ramp up activities, if it comes back, you ramp back down. He has zero pain, and then when he swings a bat, it feels good, the next day he has a little pain....so you go back to rest. I know people are frustrated, but this is typical care for injuries, the real question should be.......why is he getting injured just swinging a bat???? I mean he got injured sliding into 2nd, the guy is literally either the most clumsy oaf ever to play a game, or his body can't handle playing baseball. None of which is the medical staff's fault.....they are following typical medical procedure it looks like and we are frustrated that he can't get healthy..... Something is wrong with him as a player it seems that everyday baseball activities break him down.....not a doctors fault, it is his own body. DD
There's nothing to "hate" on the Dodgers as they are a well run organization. top flight scouts, medical staff, development. It's the fans of the Dodgers that are hated because they believe that all this would be possible without insane pocket books of the franchise.
I never said he hasn’t seen a specialist and what exactly were his “baseball activities”? Either way, I think his season is over.
If I am Jeremy Pena I am immediately seeing my own doctors and not listening to what the Astros medical staff says.
Seems like the FO has had the attitude of 'rough it out' except for it when it came to Forrest Whitley.
Obviously you're not paying attention to what actually happened with Yordan. He got hurt back in early May and they never sent him to a specialist nor did they do an mri. Then a MONTH later they had no problem with him taking batting practice. He then felt pain in his hand and THEN they decided to do an MRI and found he had a fracture which they tried to say was "60% healed". So YES it is the medical staffs fault because they should've been on top of this from the beginning. Especially when it's your FRANCHISE player who you're paying millions of dollars to. They never continued to test him weekly to see how he was doing, but idiots don't do this when they don't even know there's a fracture. Same thing with Pena. "Oh he's just sore. There's no fracture or cracked rib". Then someone wises up and has him tested and guess what he has a fractured rib. So before you pop off maybe, just maybe, look at the facts.
