MASH Report (7/15/16) – PAIN and HURT Reports
• With little news, here is a nice write-up on what Alex Cobb’s minor league rehab days are like.
Four hours before Monday’s first pitch Alex Cobb ordered a Slim #4 Turkey Breast sandwich at a Jimmy John’s, located a few blocks from the stadium.
He removed the top piece of the French bread and quickly devoured the first of his two pregame meals. The second was the peanut butter and jelly sandwich he always eats before leaving the locker room to begin his pregame warmup.
“I try to eat as light as possible before I pitch,” he said. “I’ve been on the mound (after eating too much) and feel like I have a brick in my stomach.”
• Tyler Flowers is out at least six weeks and could miss the rest of the season.
A Braves source confirmed Flowers received this diagnosis via the results of a MRI exam that was performed in Atlanta on Monday. The 30-year-old catcher will miss at least six weeks, but it seems quite possible that he could be out through a portion of the final month of the regular season.
Report of Total DL Trips
| Team | On DL | Off DL | On DL Now |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 27 | 11 | 16 |
| Atlanta Braves | 23 | 7 | 16 |
| Oakland Athletics | 20 | 8 | 12 |
| Tampa Bay Rays | 17 | 6 | 11 |
| Chicago Cubs | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| Seattle Mariners | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| Boston Red Sox | 17 | 9 | 8 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 13 | 5 | 8 |
| Colorado Rockies | 22 | 14 | 8 |
| Detroit Tigers | 14 | 6 | 8 |
| Kansas City Royals | 14 | 6 | 8 |
| New York Yankees | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| Milwaukee Brewers | 17 | 10 | 7 |
| Texas Rangers | 16 | 9 | 7 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 20 | 13 | 7 |
| Chicago White Sox | 12 | 5 | 7 |
| Miami Marlins | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| San Francisco Giants | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| Arizona Diamondbacks | 13 | 7 | 6 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 14 | 8 | 6 |
| San Diego Padres | 14 | 9 | 5 |
| Cleveland Indians | 12 | 7 | 5 |
| Los Angeles Angels | 17 | 13 | 4 |
| New York Mets | 10 | 7 | 3 |
| Minnesota Twins | 14 | 11 | 3 |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 13 | 11 | 2 |
| Washington Nationals | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Houston Astros | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Baltimore Orioles | 10 | 9 | 1 |
HURT (Hitter’s Under-performance from Recent Trauma) Rankings (introduction/explanation) :
Any player with a HURT value over 100 (red) has the traits of a batter playing through an injury.
Comparing 2013-2015 to 2016 (min 1 PA in each season)
PAIN (Pitcher Abuse INdex) Rankings (introduction/explanation)
Any player with a PAIN value over 100 (red) has the traits of a pitcher likely to be hurt
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Comparing 2015 to 2016 (min 1 pitches in each season)
Comparing March to May 2016 to June and July 2016 (min 1 pitches in each season)
Players on the 2016 DL
The Red players have had updates since the last report. Click on the “Date” for a link to go to the latest article on the player.
Jeff, one of the authors of the fantasy baseball guide,The Process, writes for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, Rotowire, Baseball America, and BaseballHQ. He has been nominated for two SABR Analytics Research Award for Contemporary Analysis and won it in 2013 in tandem with Bill Petti. He has won four FSWA Awards including on for his Mining the News series. He's won Tout Wars three times, LABR twice, and got his first NFBC Main Event win in 2021. Follow him on Twitter @jeffwzimmerman.
Woo-hoo! Thanks, Jeff. Missed these reports. And this is the last straw for ol’ Pat Corbin. See ya!