Chris Young Opts For Surgery, Out For Season

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• Brandon Butler May 12, 2011 at 6:37 pm

  Chris Young was primed for a comeback. He pitched well when he was healthy.
• XtreemIcon May 12, 2011 at 6:44 pm

  Well, let’s try to stay positive. This team wasn’t going anywhere anyway, and Young proved that we he pitches, he’s great. Maybe this will entice him and/or Sandy to try again next year with a low-risk/high-reward deal.
  • Brandon Butler May 12, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    I really hope so Xtreem. It seemed great at the start of the season, but yet even though it was a low-risk, we gambled and lost obviously.
    • XtreemIcon May 12, 2011 at 6:54 pm

      That’s ok, it was a good gamble to make. I’d rather gamble on a guaranteed real good pitcher making starts than gamble on a pitcher who’s guaranteed to make starts. Keith said it a little while ago during the game about how “eating innings” is basically a silly terminology. Paraphrased, he said, “What, and give up five runs a game for all the innings you eat?”

      Just because a guy is “healthy” or can “eat innings” doesn’t mean anything. Just fill the roster with as many good pitchers as possible and where the starts come from won’t matter. That’s why I was thrilled with the Young and Capuano signings from the get-go.
• Metsie May 12, 2011 at 7:21 pm

  Surgery was the right decision for Young.

  He pretty much cost himself a year by not going that route last year and trying to rehab it instead.

  Now that doesn’t mean Surgery is going to fix him either but at least if he has it and comes back to pitch well he has less chance of it tearing again.

  We can look to see how Santana does coming back from a similar injury.
  • XtreemIcon May 12, 2011 at 7:27 pm

    Metsie, I’m sure you’ve heard the positive news from Santana’s rehab. Which is extra nice because it seems every injury the Mets suffer is blown up by further “complications.” It’s nice to finally see a Met ahead of schedule in his rehab. Especially a piece as important as Johan.
    • Brandon Butler May 12, 2011 at 7:52 pm

      Yeah. I saw that, and i updeated my article from last week where he still he still needed to throw off the mound.
    • Metsie May 12, 2011 at 7:57 pm

      Well I heard it….Do I Believe it? Well….LOL

      I will wait and see WHEN he comes back and HOW he comes back…

      “Complications” can happen pretty much anytime!
      and usually not till the last minute!
      • metsaddict77 May 13, 2011 at 9:27 am

        what a high reward, 24 innings.scrap all these injury prone players already.