The training staff…

Carlos Beltran is seeing a specialist in Colorado today to reevaluate his knee injury.  The Internet is abuzz with talks of season ending/career threatening micro-fracture surgery.  Beltran’s knees have given him a good amount of discomfort for as long as I can remember.  Is it a ridiculous idea to explore something like surgery in the off season?  Why wait until things have gotten so bad?

John Maine has pitched well at times, but is on the DL with what is being called arm fatigue.  He missed his last scheduled rehab start, still suffering with some inflammation in his shoulder.  He’s not ready.  Why was the decision made to make rehab starts when his shoulder is obviously still fatigued?  Now he’s dealing with a setback that will make his return before the All Star Break an impossibility.

Jose Reyes sat for a weeks worth of games with what was originally being called tendinitis in his calf.  Now he’s on the DL for an undetermined amount of time with a tear in his hamstring.  It’s not even the same body part!  How did that happen?

Oliver Perez has a bad knee?  I can’t say I believed that one from the beginning.  Oliver has a fat wallet and a knuckle head and he’s mailed it in.  Screw you Ollie.

JJ Putz’s elbow was something anyone watching the games could see coming.  A hard throwing pitcher with a bad elbow can get ineffective pretty quickly.  Why wait so long before surgery?  He had already lost his job to then overachieving Bobby Parnell due to ineffectiveness.  Something was obviously wrong.

Now it’s easy for me to say all these things in hindsight, but I’m not a medical professional.  I’m just an observer.  I can’t remember watching a season where this many people got hurt, but more importantly were mis-diagnosed.  Can Omar trade Ray Ramirez?  The Mets look like they’re short on sunflower seeds.  Maybe Ray for some seeds and a few AAA batteries?  Anyone interested?

In honor of Ramirez’s stellar performance so far this season, I’m offering this quality t-shirt.