Astros’ Alvarez recovering from fractured hand
This is so fucking stupid.
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Don’t attribute to malice what can more easily be attributed to incompetence
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I’ve felt for a while that maybe it’s time to clean house on the medical side. This shit keeps happening
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It makes no sense. I’d love Chandler or someone to ask why they keep doing this.
I’m highly annoyed about stuff like this.
It’s also worrisome that so many of our pitchers have gone down needing Tommy John surgery recently. I haven’t researched to see if it’s a trend around the league that more pitchers are getting injured and end up needing it. I just don’t ever remember the team having so many starters out with that particular injury.
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Rome’s been on a crusade about it for a couple of years now. No answers.
And over those couple years I think a few of us wondered whether the Astros were uniquely evasive about injuries or whether it was a leaguewide trend. Having tried to pay more attention now, maybe there are other offenders, but it’s not really a leaguewide thing. It’s the Astros. For what reason, I have no idea.
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What’s really messed up is that I’m leaning towards one of two possibilities regarding this specific case with Alvarez:
1). they didn’t know about the fracture before an MRI/CT scan earlier today was performed after he woke up feeling worse. Or they knew about it but thought they had waited long enough for it to heal and then again saw it wasn’t fully healed today after a MRI/CT scan. I say this bc why in the hell would you have him hitting against live pitching if you did know?
2). He fractured it yesterday during his round of live ABs
If it’s #2 he’s sure healing quickly to be at 60% already!
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You’re assuming the team knows what 60% healed looks like, which seems unlikely.
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Much more info in the video in this tweet
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Thanks for your post.
My son had a problem playing HS this season that we thought was a problem in his upper back. We took him into PT people and they said it was completely muscular and XRays showed nada so just needed PT therapy and nothing to worry about so he tried to fight through it and keep playing, but it got worse. We finally found a Doctor who said he thought he knew what it was but it was rare and wanted an MRI. The MRI confirmed his diagnosis and showed a small stress fracture in a rib that connects around his collarbone. Apparently Aaron Judge had the same injury a couple years back. The doctor said the fracture is so small that you can’t see it on x-rays and that sometimes it’s even hard to see on an MRI. Anyhow, he’s out at least the next three months and can’t do anything, including working out and it just goes to show that sometimes injuries are just really hard to nail down.
This goes back to Dusty times…don’t want to let the other team know what’s wrong with your guys, and who might play, so everything that’s not catastrophic is a day-to-day injury.
Dana’s not wrong, but it’s still all complete horseshit.
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The prosthetic didn’t have the right feel. They have to fabricate a whole new one.
Or, hear me out, why are you not taking multiple MRIs when the injury is so slow to heal.
Really fucking stupid.
It’s not like Yordan/the Astros is one of us regularJoes that has to pay out of pocket for medical procedures.
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…or don’t live in one of the Medical Capitals of Planet Earth.
This is the, what, about the 5th time this has happened?
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Chandler has now published a story on the fiasco. It’s behind a paywall but here is a snippet and a link for those of you who subscribe
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We now choose to listen to Chandler Rome?
Not saying he’s wrong, but still…?
This is fucking horseshit and after all the bad press for various reasons over the last almost decade, they should know better. Inexcusable.
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