28
2013
ESPN New York: Wheeler Injury Not Very Bad
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Terry Collins told ESPN New York this afternoon that the oblique injury to top prospect Zack Wheeler is “not very bad.”
Adam Rubin also reports that “the hope is to get Wheeler back on a bullpen mound in five days.”
As MMO’s John Delcos pointed out this morning, Wheeler sounds like he’ll miss just one more start before he appears in another Grapefruit League game.
As they should, the Mets are handling this one with extra caution.
Original Post 2/27
Andy Martino of the Daily News is hearing that Zack Wheeler will be scratched from his start today because of an oblique injury that happened while hitting in cage….
Wheeler has confirmed the injury and the Mets are calling it a mild strain…
“It’s mostly precautionary at this point,” general manager Sandy Alderson said. “He tried to throw and didn’t experience any problem, but he was sore to the touch so we’re backing off.”
Darin Gorski will start in place of Wheeler in Wednesday’s game against the Cardinals.
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Or, Or…. Maybe he’s not pitching because of a trade on the making???????????????????????????????
This is EXACTLY the reason why you trade away young talent for proven major league talent, i.e. Stanton. You just never know when an injury will happen to someone who is not proven.
Mykey, exactly…. IF i am the mets, i’d do this RIGHT NOW….
But couldn’t you say the same thing about any player?
You probably didn’t notice, the the Mets have had some big players get bit by the injury bug. Like the guy in the second picture.
Boooo… Watching Wheeler pitch is one of the things I most look forward to this Spring. Hope this is nothing serious…the Mets are saying it is not. But yeah, we all know how “good” the Mets health staff is.
If he were to get seriously injured and miss months because he hurt himself in the batting cage, I could never forgive Alderson and I’d fire Hudgens on the spot.
Even i can’t blame Alderson or Hudgens for that. You gotta play ball, man. You gotta live. I don’t subscribe to the “walking on eggshells theory”.
Kid is in the cage like anybody else on a normal day and this stuff happens. Now if he’s injury prone that’s a completely different story for another day.
Take away Matt Cain from the Giants, add Stanton. Just those two, lets not go adding other players…
Do the Giants win two out of the last three World Series???
I don’t think so…if you’re building a team, you build on the arms of young pitching. Then, you add the nesessary offense.
I think though if the Giants had Stanton instead of Matt Cain you can’t rule out that they would have gone out and gotten another frontline pitcher at that time as well so it’s hard to gauge. They would be a different type of team but still able to win 2 world series. All hypothetical, though.
On the topic of player injuries Mets prospect Goeddel who was hit in the face yesterday with a baseball looked, well see for yourself.
https://twitter.com/PSLToFlushing/status/306460097012457473/photo/1
“We didnt have oblique muscles when I played” -Yogi Berra
Seems the Met quacks are center stage this Spring…Francisco, Murphy, Tejada, and now Wheeler.
We will see how many return in the time frame laid out. Most of us are aware what “day-to-day” resulted in the past.
In fairness to the Mets medical staff they never specify which “day” they mean in “day to day”. Could be back February 28, 2013 or August 17, 2014, that’s what makes them so much fun!
Go Duda! Baby Steps. I agree with Keith I don’t think it’s radical changes as far as Duda’s swing. Here is what Hudgens had to say regarding Ike’s swing last season and how they tried to approach it where he talks about not changing a guy the way he swings but rather minimize some things in the swing.
http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=22829961
den Dekker looking to make the highlight reel with what would of been another great catch.
Byrd with a dropped ball very similar to what Brown had the other day. Can’t say it was the sunlight either. Had the glasses down the whole way.
Burke looked good in his 1 inning today and had to laugh just a bit at I believe Keith as I sometimes confuse his voice with Darling explaining WHIP.
Recker with a solo shot borrows a phrase from Disney’s Wreck It Ralph and says “I’m gonna wreck it!”
LOL. I was thinking just that when Recker went deep.
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Thank you. It’s about time. I used to love commenting on your site, Joe. But a few people have taken the fun out of it for me. You have lost a lot of people who I used to love to chat with that probably are like me and just read but never comment. I hope that Annie, Original Met Fan and Gina come back again. I look forward to good times again. Lets Go Mets!
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God Bless her, in no rush to get there but, one day, that will be me
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I have to laugh at tweet about Beltran saying the Mets won the Beltran Wheeler trade. Clearly he is not an avid reader of MMO.
https://twitter.com/AdamRubinESPN/status/306898999888183296
“This is EXACTLY the reason why you trade away young talent for proven major league talent, i.e. Stanton. You just never know when an injury will happen to someone who is not proven.”
No! I have to scratch my head sometimes. Injuries happen to everyone and every kind of player. Beltran (you know the guy he was traded for) wasn’t EVER the picture of health.
It’s insane to think about trading Wheeler or anyone else to avoid them getting hurt. One NEVWR knows when someone is goi g to get hurt. If they did then they would prevent it.
“As they should, the Mets are handling this one with extra caution.”
This.
Wow gone for a day and you miss everything! I believe you give Wheeler if he’s heathly a
real shot of making the mets rotation this year! If he’s not ready send him to AAA allthough
I’m not sure how getting hit in Las Vegas will help him except to mess up his head! I know
the mets aren’t going to the world seres this year but giving Wheeler and Travis a year in
the ML’s now will make them ready for next year when the mets will sign FA’s and
and compete for the Wild Card! They will get plenty of mental toughness pitching & catching for the mets this year! Let him pitch and if he’s ready great if not send them to AAA! What if Davey Johnson had sent Doc Gooden down and he was 19 years old instead of giving him
a chance? Everybodys makeup is different and should be judged that way and not tell everybody Wheeler will start in AAA before he even throws a pitch in spring training! I
I don’t know why they put Pitchers in the cage at all…
Seems a rather pointless endeavor considering they are never really expected to hit well in a game, Mostly are told to bunt a runner over, and really have nothing to gain from being in a batting cage this early in the season.
Better to let them hit off a tee the way they do with Hitters coming back from injury and until such time as they make the team and the rotation is set, no reason to risk injury and thrown balls in a Batting Practice enviornment.
I know they would all protest loudly but too bad…make the team then we will worry about you hitting better once your good enough to Pitch in something meaningful.