At least be open about it?
The NFL makes you put guys on the “injured” list (out/questionable/probable/etc)…why not MLB?
The gambling giants will insist on it soon enough.
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Not when your league reputation (regardless what the Yankees and the rest of the league did) is already covered in dishonesty. “Transparency” needs to be one of the first fucking five words of their mission statement in the front office.
This shit happens too often at this point for it to be just bad luck or a string of major injuries that are “easy to miss”. They have access to the finest doctors and imaging equipment in the world.
They have to know they are being dishonest to their fans in addition to whatever infinitesimally small advantage they think they gain by not letting a team know if one guy will be in the lineup or not. It’s the fucking regular season, teams are going to play who and how they are going to play. It’s not a game 7.
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I have no problem with the Astros starting fresh with the medical staff, but the front office deserves a lot of culpability here. They need to start being more transparent concerning injuries. It isn’t some type of competitive advantage.
I find it hard to believe the Astros’ medical staff wouldn’t conduct an X-Ray and MRI of Alvarez’s hand when the initial injury happened in early May.
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Bad listicles aside, he is not a bad beat reporter. He knows the team and the league pretty well, and he takes his job seriously (low bar but he’s miles better than Evan Drellich). And he’s been right about the injury issues for a long time now.
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IIRC, the lack of transparency on injuries (e.g. “discomfort”) started during the Luhnow years. Go figure.
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Shouldn’t the plural of staff be stave?
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Agreed re: Rome. He was a decent beat reporter back in his Lackey Chronicle days and that hasn’t changed since he went to The Athletic. Nice to have someone who ostensibly cares about the Astros.
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Failing to make a diagnosis public, for PR reasons, does not mean the diagnosis was not made.
So no, I see no value in Rome’s opinion here either.
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Call me crazy, but I’m not particularly worked up about this.
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The one sliver of good news is that Yordan’s hand was actually injured by something and it’s not a continuation of the weird recurring hand issues from a couple of years ago…
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I had completely forgotten about “Drellich” and may we never speak of him again
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I’m sick as fuck about getting lied to all the damn time. I don’t need it in baseball too.
My outrage might not last, but today I’m pissed.
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It’s not being dishonest it’s just withholding information
If you’re gonna talk to the media then just tell some sort of the truth and then shut the fuck up, it’s not that much to ask.
“No comment about injuries” would work. All they’re doing is pissing off the entire fanbase by jacking them around with straight up lies
The Astros not providing me with a player’s medical evaluation is pretty far down on my list of rage inducing malfeasance these days.
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Information that we’re not necessarily entitled to. I don’t understand the outrage. But, everybody gotta be somewhere, I guess.
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see above
I don’t care whether the Astros disclose injury information accurately to the public. I do care that they didn’t know that their best hitter has a fucking fracture in his hand and weren’t managing his rehab with that in mind and that they sent him out to take batting practice against live pitching with a fucking fracture in his hand. That I do care about. It reeks of mind boggling slapdickery.
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And maybe they didn’t know about the fracture. But personally I’d like to know what level of competence, or lack thereof, we’re dealing with. Transparency would help with that.
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X-rays are worth close to zero. MRI on the other hand, I would think they would have their own, and someone to read them as well. With that in your pocket and dealing with people worth millions to your bottom line, what’s the problem? Something doesn’t make sense.
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