THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Friday, August 27, 2010

Strasburg -> Tommy John

By Tangotiger, 11:00 AM

Rookie right-hander Stephen Strasburg has a significant tear on the ulnar collateral ligament that probably will require reconstructive Tommy John elbow surgery, the Washington Nationals announced Friday.

The star rookie pitcher has had two MRIs since he was removed from Saturday’s game at Philadelphia. The initial diagnosis was a strained tendon in his right forearm. But the first MRI raised enough questions for the team to order a more enhanced MRI that was performed Thursday.

Strasburg is scheduled to see Dr. Lewis Yocum.

Strasburg was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday, the second time he’s been on the DL in less than a month. He was previously shelved with inflammation in his right shoulder.

• Sabermetrics • Strasburg

#1 (see all posts) 2010/08/27 (Fri) @ 11:21

Is it wrong to make a joke about how many player prediction systems are still predicting him to be better than 75% of league average for next year?

#2 (see all posts) 2010/08/27 (Fri) @ 11:29

A sad day for baseball fans.

#3 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2010/08/27 (Fri) @ 11:51

Wrong, no. Lame? It would be, yeah. Good thing you didn’t say it…

#4 Nick Steiner (see all posts) 2010/08/27 (Fri) @ 12:05

Damn.

#5 Butler Blue (see all posts) 2010/08/27 (Fri) @ 12:31

And so dies 2011 baseball in Washington. For him and for the team, here’s hoping this is just the dark turn in the story-line before the fairy tale ending.

#6 Greg Rybarczyk (see all posts) 2010/08/27 (Fri) @ 13:07

I wonder if the next young pitcher to come along with 100mph stuff is going to elicit comments like “Wow, he throws 100!”, or “Oh, no, he throws 100!”.

Probably both.

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