RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 5/19/2015 – Cascading Injuries

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May 20, 2015

Episode 231

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris discuss the injury news with Jayson Werth, Victor Martinez, Wil Myers, Corey Dickerson, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jaime Garcia, and Ike Davis. They touch upon Lance McCullers Jr.’s debut, Cole Hamels’ resurgence, Anthony DeSclafani’s May, and Yasmany Tomas’ phony batting average. In transaction news, they talk about the Welington Castillo trade and Kenny Vargas’ demotion before finishing with bullpen talk.

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Jay
11 years ago

DeSclafani Sw Strk% has been progressively getting worse as the season has going on. Even though it is sitting at 9.4% that’s being buoyed by two large 16% numbers from the beginning of the year.

Start SwStrk%
4/9 16.4
4/14 8.3
4/20 8.8
4/26 16.1
5/01 6.7
5/07 6.2
5/12 8.3
5/17 5.6

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Barry Bonds Rules
11 years ago

Just my two cents, in regards to Dickerson, it is correct that it is a pain issue. The issue with pain is subjective. As a result it would be a mistake to compare players with injury such as Pujols. The injury is caused by microscopic tears of the facia which cause swelling (itis), and because this foot has many nerve endings pain is involved. Speed may or may not be affected on a per game bases. While there are treatment options, anything besides rest or stretching is risky.

In terms of Myers, wrist tendinitis is a swelling of soft tissue that is a part of the bodies response to injury. Meaning that because he was injured earlier in his career, he hasn’t fully healed, or he is predisposed to wrist injuries (big hands!), or he is unlucky. In any case the wrest would be the best treatment, and he may not be able to continue the same level of activity when he comes back. Just my two cents.

In regards to Werth, if this was the result of a hit by a pitch its not a big deal. This would be swelling related to impact. Swelling due to swinging (use) in myers case is more concerning.

New injury vs Ongoing: Ongoing is worse than new injury. Ongoing in jury is one that can only worsen over time. I’ll take the multiple injury in this case over the single injury on the aging player.

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