The cost of an MRI machine can vary significantly depending on its type, magnet strength, and whether it is new or used. New MRI machines typically cost between $1 million and over $3 million, while used MRI machines can range from $150,000 to $700,000.23 For 1.5T MRI machines specifically, prices can start as low as $150,000.
A drop in a bucket for an entity valued at 2.8 Billion.
It screams incompetence when a guy (you can go back to Tucker last year) is taking live BP for a few days and all of the sudden “we decided to give him another MRI and his shit’s broke”
I don’t need or want detailed medical info, but I totally understand the frustration by the fanbase. It’s not like we’ve never joked about “discomfort” around here.
Even more frustrating given that the Astros live about 526 Altuves from one of the top-5 medical facilities on earth.
All of your anger is predicated on your thinking that either 1) the Astros refused to have a player medically evaluated or 2) said evaluation was completely botched, presumably because the Astros are too cheap to pay for competent doctors and equipment to take care and of their billion dollar investment and instead went with Dr. Nick. None of this is known. I get the frustration of the unknown and the fact that fans want every detail available to the doctors and medical staff, but that’s just not how it works, for various reasons. You may not like the reasons.
I have no anger
Yep. And then there’s at times the need for MRIs with contrast or CT scans (to really be able to look deeper or be able to tell level of healing). It’s my understanding that these can subject a person to radiation so there comes a point where you don’t want to do them every month (and certainly not weekly). You want to be calculated and I’m sure the player has a say in how far and how much he’s willing to do.
Medical treatment for professional athletes isn’t always an immediate spot on diagnosis, complete with the exact month, day, hour, and minute it will heal, then announce it all to the general public. But it’s cathartic to say “he’d be fixed if the owner wasn’t a cheapskate”. It sort of the default, go-to response to everything negative.
Tell me about it. Exactly what my son has went through. It’s frustrating but it’s not as if the people that were looking at him wanted to lead him/us astray.
We did purchase a cool device that is supposed to promote healing of bone more quickly via ultrasound. I’m betting they have Yordan on one now.
I wasn’t trying to parlay it into how cheap they might or might not be. If they have the options, why not use them? Maybe they did.
Your statement implied one of two things: either the Astros are too cheap to pay for decent medical care or they are too apathetic about a player’s health to get it done. I don’t know why people insist it has to be one of those two things rather than them simply choosing, for whatever reasons, to not make every tidbit public.
Had no idea you were a lawyer, you’re implying things into what everybody else is saying.
I thought that was Neil’s job?
He’s busy trying to catch a fish.
So why would you have him take batting practice with a hand at 60% if they knew that?
Hopefully without a broken hand.
He should post more pics of his excursions, I, for one, would live a bit vicariously through that
I don’t know, I’m not a professional trainer. Why do you assume they didn’t know what he had, and further, that it was a result of either miserliness or apathy?
They have the right to say “he’s hurt, he’ll play again at some point, fuck off” if they want to but that’s not what they do. It’s the “oh he’s day to day, actually nevermind he’s going on the IL but he’ll be back shortly. He should be good on the weekend, actually next weekend. He has a fracture and will be out a while”
Is this Yordan or Tucker last year? Yes. It was the same with Brantley a few years back. Day to day turned into his career might be over. They don’t have to tell us anything but if you’re going to tell us something, stop fucking lying
I agree. Perhaps he’s embarrassed by the size of his fish.
They have a right to tell you that too.
Other teams don’t do this, just the Astros. That’s the problem
I don’t think it’s a problem. I get that you do. And for the record, this is the third most common complaint of every team’s fans. Right after “ownership is too cheap” and “were ignored by the national media”.