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Corey Patterson?
Wendy City replied to The_Realist's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I could put up with the baby seal beating and gerbil arson if Corey would just take a gosh darned pitch. -
Don't know what happened there. Now I can't even go in and delete the extras.
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I think Wood seems ready to come back soon. If they're already talking about simulated games, then he shopuld only be a few weeks away. I would expect him before the AS break. However, if hendry is looking at this next stretch of games against the Red Sox, Yankees, Marlins and White Sox as the make-or-break point of the season and we're throwing either Koronka, Mitre or Williams out there at least once per series, then he may decide pitching is more important right now. Given the choices offered, I'd take Millwood based on history. He has performed well in the past and i think he would eat up some innings until we get healthy. However, I'll take Adam Dunn over any pitcher right now. I think we can patch it together and stay in the WC race over the next few weeks. Then we start getting guys back.
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I don't knoww either. Just hopeful. I think we need to go out and get another bat regardless. From ESPN.com New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza will miss at least six weeks, and possibly the rest of the season, after tearing his right groin muscle last week. Also from ESPN: Piazza saw team physician Dr. Andrew Rokito, who said the All-Star catcher had a Grade 3 strain -- the most serious -- with the muscle partially torn off the bone. Piazza will not need surgery. Just FYI - could be apples to oranges for all I know.
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I'm not a doctor and i don't have any inside info on Nomar, but I think ruling him out for the year is a little premature and flies in the face of the evidence we have. For one thing, Piazza's injury occured at the end of May. Nomar's was almost exactly one month earlier at the end of April. Secon, Piazza didn't have surgery while Nomar did. This was to clean up the area around the tendon, not to fix the tendon and was done to make the healing process better. For Piazza's injury they said 4-6 weeks but one doctor said a minimum of 8 weeks. For Nomar they said 2-3 months. Three months is July 20th. I don't think it's impossible, given Dusty's optimism, that he is slightly ahead of schedule. Which makes July 14th, first game after the AS break, reasonable. However, it is interesting that July 20th is the date of our next Cardinal series. How would that be for a pick-me-up if Nomar was back. Again, I don't claim to have any more information. But I don't think comparing him to Piazza is the way to go. Even if we did, the fact that Piazza's injury occured a month after Nomar's, and that Piazza came back in Septemeber, would mean at the very least we could expect Nomar in early August given your rationale.
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How do you know? The first game after the AS break is July 14th -six weeks from now. What information do you have that rules out him being back by then. Given the Cubs recent history of being very careful of announcing timetables, I think it's telling that Dusty would mention the AS Break. I don't know that for sure. But neither do you. Either way, I think it's clear they expect him to play again this year, which was in question just a few weeks ago. It will be a huge lift to get him back at any time, even with Perez playing the way he is. I'd love to see him back 7/14, but 8/1 would be allright as well. If opnly to give him a couple of weeks on a rehab assignment to get his eye back.