Zeke is certianly not fooling anybody this inning... these are all hard hit balls.... by the pirooots.
His shoulder is hurting too much to play today. He doesn't think he could help the team if he was out there. He might be a pinch hitter tonight.
Man... I'm not watching the game, and I was just glancing at gamecast.... and that looked like one helluva AB by Lamb. 11 pitches... he fouled off like 9 of them, and laid off of the pitches out of the zone.... either Redman is pretty easy to pick up from his delivery, or Mike Lamb is seeing the ball so well that even lefties can't get him out.
I think Lamb is just seeing the ball that well right now. Redmen doesn't look that bad out there. Lamb has 6 straight games with RBIs.
Roger Clemens = Roy Hobbes No telling what kind of hitter he could have been if he messed up his shoulder at the beginning of his career.
Did Bagwell sit out last year or the previous one before that on occasion due to the shoulder hurting too much? It just seems like its gone from bad to worse from last year to this one.
I'm almost certain he's been missing games here and there due to his shoulder for at least the last two seasons.
Its always been bad... and its never going to get better (thus, common sense tells you that it can only get worse). Its basically bone on bone. He's takes a cortizone shot every 3 months to reduce the inflammation (which is what causes the pain, swelling, and restricted motion)... but it never fixes the underlying problem. I had a suspicion that this would be Bagwell's last year if he couldn't at least match last season's production.... but now I just wonder how much more he can play (productively)... period. Its never been as bad to the point where he actually had to take himself out of the lineup... so that is definitely saying something.
He's been given days off.... but he's never come in on game-day, with his name already penciled in the lineup, and said, "I can't play." That's what he did today.
