[Official] Astros @ Angels

Agree this is like Brantley. There’s a reason his hand or hands hurt. May not know until he’s shut down for the season.

 

a small price to pay for higher forms of comfort. but not as bad if you’re amphibious like me

 

It’s just his right hand. Not both hands. Yordan said this himself.

 

Medical staff has mismanaged this

 

Its clear Yordan thinks he can and should play through this… his performance is saying otherwise, and the Astros shouldn’t be in a rush to try and figure it out with this cushion.

He’ll rest/IL. It will either be good enough to warrant late season/playoff AB’s or it won’t.

 

Left hand, iirc

 

Oh. Well cool. But not both

 

This. Hands don't stay continuously "sore" for weeks/months for no reason. There's clearly a serious injury issue with Yordan's hand. And I suspect that the Astros know exactly what that issue is, and have known for the past 2 months, and have known that it isn't going to get resolved with a simple IL stint, and have known that if it needed surgery that it would probably be at least a multi-month recovery effort for Yordan. Thus, they (and probably Yordan himself) were hoping that he could just play/gut through it until the season's over, and then do whatever really needs to be done to fix it in the offseason. That hope doesn't seem to be panning out.

In addition to the Brantley situation, this also reminds me of Bregman's wrist injury situation last season and how that was handled.

 

Last West Coast series of the season.

Yay.

 

Heads up! Home plate ump sucks.

 

Easy excuse to drink late

Nay

 

I don't care if we win another regular season game this season. Have the big horses back for October and redeem the 2017 team.

 

Dammit. So close Bregs

 

MVP outta reach and big contract signed.. Let Yordan chill for on a 15 IL .. No need to keep playing with fire

 

Second verse, same as the first.

 

Lance looks a bit off.

 

My God, Lance- throw strikes. It makes things so much easier.

 

Was it the 3 straight 3-ball counts that made you think that?

 

Great pitch.