Two weeks left in Spring Training and the league is plagued with strains, stiffness, discomforts, and other seemingly misleading adjectives underscoring possibly serious injuries. Go to any baseball website, forum, or blog and you’ll see it; speckled all over the web like some sort of rash. Teams leaking rumors of their ace starters or star shortstops being shut down for a strain on his this or a discomfort in his that. We have heard such phrases as “Ready for season”, “Out for season”, “Ready for Opening Day”, and “Shutdown” more times in one day than a year’s worth of “would you like fries with that?”
Simply take a sample of the last ten days of Spring Training and some of the headlines we have seen; you might have seen heartbreaking stories that made you think the season was lost, or that all has been saved by a cortisone shot. Headlines like these:
CHIPPER DONE AFTER 2012
SANTANA WILL BE SET FOR OPENER
ROBERTSON: I’LL BE READY FOR OPENER
CHIPPER: I DON’T KNOW IF I CAN MAKE IT THROUGH THIS YEAR
WRIGHT NOT RECOVERING
NUNEZ OUT WITH HAND INJURY
TEJADA LATEST CASUALTY
PEREZ INJURES KNEE
UTLEY: CAREER OVER?
GARCIA HURTS HAND
HAMILTON JAMS HEEL
PENA WILL BE OK IN 3 DAYS
VIZCAINO: ELBOW, OUT FOR SEASON
JETER SHUTSDOWN WITH TENDER CALF
HALLADAY: NOT INJURED?
RYAN HOWARD DOES LIGHT WORKOUT
CANO TAKES HIT TO HAND
SORA LEAVES GAME WITH SORE ELBOW
FREDDY SANCHEZ: DOUBTFUL FOR OPENER
TORRES DOWN WITH INJURY
MARCUM: READY FOR SEASON
MARMOL: OK AFTER HAND INJURY
BURNETT RECOVERING
CHIEN-MING WANG: NOT READY FOR OPENER
FELIZ TREATMENT IMPROVING
Geez, and that is just the last 10 days of spring training.
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