Ben Sheets leaves game with distal finger sprain (7/14)

[sherwood921]

I just switched to the Brewers game and saw Sheets leaving with an injury in the 4th inning. Hurt his middle finger apparently while throwing a curve. He left immediately.

 

*edit: Colorado announcers said distal finger sprain

Edited July 15, 2007 by sherwood921

[Garwilly]

Hurt his middle finger on his right hand following through on a pitch. No readl deatils yet.

[wekse]

uh oh spaghetti-o

[imb]

Sounds like a blister to me

[sherwood921]

Sounds like a blister to me

 

No, I saw the replay. He was snapping his hand and shaking it. It was the reaction one would make upon tweaking a tendon. Definitely didn't seem like the reaction one would have with a blister.

 

Edit: I just watched it again and it looks like he was really having trouble bending it. The trainer grabbed the end of it and apparently Sheets winced in pain. Possible dislocation?

Edited July 15, 2007 by sherwood921

[A New Era]

Sounds like a blister to me

 

No, I saw the replay. He was snapping his hand and shaking it. It was the reaction one would make upon tweaking a tendon. Definitely didn't seem like the reaction one would have with a blister.

 

Good.

[TruffleShuffle]

Sounds like a blister to me

 

No, I saw the replay. He was snapping his hand and shaking it. It was the reaction one would make upon tweaking a tendon. Definitely didn't seem like the reaction one would have with a blister.

 

Good.

 

c'mon... i'm not feeling terrible for the brewers but i'm not going to celebrate an injury to one of their key players.

[sherwood921]

But of course Yahoo posts that it was a blister. Who knows.

 

Announcers from the Rockies say the Milwaukee crew hasn't gotten word yet, though. I'm pretty sure they'd know by know about a blister.

[Keener98]

So who was it that was trying to say that Sheets wasnt injury prone, Ender, wasnt it?

[Outshined_One]

Frankly, I'm surprised Sheets got injured in a normal way. He's in the same class as Kerry Wood and Mark Prior when it comes to freak injuries.

 

I was waiting for the Bernie Brewer Slide at Miller Park to collapse on his pitching arm or something like that.

[Drew Doughty]

apparently he sprained something in his finger, i only walked in at the end of the conversation the brewers radio crew was having.

 

he's having a MRI on monday.

[Ender]

Distal finger sprain whatever that is. Assuming its a miss a start or two type injury Sheets has still had one major injury in 6.5 years of baseball so I still don't see how you call that injury prone. Certainly not Wood/Prior/Harden type prone.

[Outshined_One]

Basically, he sprained a ligament in the top joint of his middle finger, between the nail and the middle bone.

 

I have no idea what kind of severity or lingering effects these injuries have, but this is the kind of injury you miss at least one start for.

[killthegoat06]

I hate too enjoy people getting hurt, but if it's going to be anybody, Ben Sheets is the guy expected to get hurt first.

[Keener98]

Distal finger sprain whatever that is. Assuming its a miss a start or two type injury Sheets has still had one major injury in 6.5 years of baseball so I still don't see how you call that injury prone. Certainly not Wood/Prior/Harden type prone.

 

The guy has 39 starts in over 2 years

[Banedon]

I won't celebrate an injury, but I'm also not terribly upset about it.

[Ender]

Distal finger sprain whatever that is. Assuming its a miss a start or two type injury Sheets has still had one major injury in 6.5 years of baseball so I still don't see how you call that injury prone. Certainly not Wood/Prior/Harden type prone.

 

The guy has 39 starts in over 2 years

 

yes, he got hurt? Pitchers do that, almost all of them do over a 7 year period. That dosen't make him injury prone, that makes him normal. Injury prone is a Burnett, Wood, Prior, Harden, I just don't see why you'd put Sheets in that category.

[Keener98]

Distal finger sprain whatever that is. Assuming its a miss a start or two type injury Sheets has still had one major injury in 6.5 years of baseball so I still don't see how you call that injury prone. Certainly not Wood/Prior/Harden type prone.

 

The guy has 39 starts in over 2 years

 

yes, he got hurt? Pitchers do that, almost all of them do over a 7 year period. That dosen't make him injury prone, that makes him normal. Injury prone is a Burnett, Wood, Prior, Harden, I just don't see why you'd put Sheets in that category.

 

Because that was just the last 2 years, I didnt even include the years prior to that hes been hurt. He hasnt pitched a full season without going on the DL since 2004.

 

May 29, 2007: Missed 1 game (finger injury).

May 28, 2007: Finger injury, day-to-day.

Jul 24, 2006: Missed 72 games (shoulder injury).

May 10, 2006: Shoulder injury, 15-day DL (retroactive to May 3rd).

May 7, 2006: Shoulder injury, day-to-day.

Apr 16, 2006: Missed 11 games (back injury).

Mar 30, 2006: Back injury, 15-day DL (retroactive to March 24th).

Oct 2, 2005: Missed 33 games to the end of the regular season (back injury).

Sep 20, 2005: Transferred from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL (back injury).

Aug 27, 2005: Back injury, 15-day DL.

May 28, 2005: Missed 30 games (viral infection).

Apr 29, 2005: Viral infection, 15-day DL (retroactive to April 21th).

Apr 24, 2005: Illness, day-to-day.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

If Sheets misses a start, this will be the third season in a row that he hasn't made his full slate of starts. Whether you call that injury prone or not, it certainly means that he has not been the epitome of health either. It's starting to become a trend. While it may appear these are fluke injuries, or unrelated injuries, the fact remains that he has missed starts because of injuries.

 

It might reach the point where the most anyone should expect of Sheets is 22-25 starts. He already has 18 this season, so this injury would have to become fairly severe for him to not get 25. But in 2006, he started only 17 games and in 2005, he started only 22 games. It's three years since he made over 30 starts.

[98navigator]

Sheets IS injury prone. The idea that he's had one major injury in 6.5 years is silly. He lost starts in 2001 to a rotator cuff injury then went almost 3 years without an injury (2002-2004). However, he had back surgery in October of 2004. In 2005 he had a "tear in the latissimus dorsi muscle" which limited him to 22 starts. He started the 2006 season on the DL with a "strained muscle behind his right shoulder." When he finally returned he lasted 4 starts before being DL'd again for a "strained muscle behind the right shoulder" and then again later that year for tendinitis in the front of the shoulder. He made 17 starts.

 

His injury history is far from ordinary. More importantly, his inability to stay healthy has jeopardized the Brewers chances to win because he hasn't been dependable.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Huh, I don't celebrate other teams' injuries either.... W/ that said, given the less than stellar performance by Capuano, the up & down of Bush & Suppan being largely what he simply is as a pitcher, the Crew could face some tough sledding. I wish we were playing them next week...

[A New Era]

Sounds like a blister to me

 

No, I saw the replay. He was snapping his hand and shaking it. It was the reaction one would make upon tweaking a tendon. Definitely didn't seem like the reaction one would have with a blister.

 

Good.

 

c'mon... i'm not feeling terrible for the brewers but i'm not going to celebrate an injury to one of their key players.

 

I am, the seemingly unfair karma on our team has made me bitter. Ba Humbug.

[Carlos Zambrano]

If Sheets is down for a significant amount of time, I guess the Brewers can kind of feel how us Cubs fans have felt in recent years.

[98navigator]

Not to speculate too much, but if Sheets misses one or more starts it's a wash if Gallardo replaces him. They still need to do something with Capuano, Vargas, and Bush (Suppan has also pitched poorly but they don't have a choice but to let him pitch his way out of it).

 

Their starting rotation has been in decline and their bullpen has been overworked in the middle as a result (Gallardo and Villanueva specifically).

[Ender]

Sheets IS injury prone. The idea that he's had one major injury in 6.5 years is silly. He lost starts in 2001 to a rotator cuff injury then went almost 3 years without an injury (2002-2004). However, he had back surgery in October of 2004. In 2005 he had a "tear in the latissimus dorsi muscle" which limited him to 22 starts. He started the 2006 season on the DL with a "strained muscle behind his right shoulder." When he finally returned he lasted 4 starts before being DL'd again for a "strained muscle behind the right shoulder" and then again later that year for tendinitis in the front of the shoulder. He made 17 starts.

 

His injury history is far from ordinary. More importantly, his inability to stay healthy has jeopardized the Brewers chances to win because he hasn't been dependable.

 

In 2001 he sat because he was young, he could have pitched through it. 2002-2004 he had no injuries. 2005 he got sick which limited him a few starts thats not an injury. Late in the year he got hurt with an injury that was going to take 9-12 months to recover from, he came back early and aggravated the issue (yes the lat is directly related to the shoulder). He has had one major injury in 6.5 years.

 

Imagine next year Zambrano goes down in May, misses the rest of the season and then is just fine in 2009. Is he injury prone because he only has 39 starts over 2 seasons. If Sheets doesn't try to come back and is just hurt for a full season would he no longer have the injury prone tag? To me it seems like the reasoning for the tag is because he tried to come back too early and ended up on the DL again for a couple months, that seems silly to me.