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We'll I guess its good they can acquire players other than from the draft.

Even if it was only 60 games, they were one of the better teams in the league. Now they're awful.

It's really amazing that just a year and a half ago the sox made the playoffs two years in a row for the first time in moxern history. It has been like falling off a cliff.

Got it. Just sounded like you were implying that it's been a really long time that they haven't been ranked and that the current front office hasn't produced a good farm system in a longtime based on the performance of the current group. That's what it sounded like. Guess I'm too old to realize the "few" has so many definitions.

A quote from your post an hour ago "This Sox farm has been bad for a few years now,"

It hasn't been bad for a years like you said or even imply here. It's been bad 2.

This is a little bit of recency bias and revisionist history. MLB had the system ranked 2019: 9th , 2020: 11th and 2021: 16th based on many of the players on the roster now. While many of them aren't living up to their potential, the farm system up until last year wasn't bad.

That's why they call it the practice of medicine. We are getting better at research but there is a limit to what type of research we can do on people. Dang FDA and IRBs. The article I posted is a good meta on preventing muscle injuries though.

Yes. They made what seems like good changes. We'll see. Not too promising so far.

He did. We'll have to see how it works. One off season isn't enough to decide. But they should be evaluating it all.

Interesting. Good article. Playing short handed is more of a roster issue not so much an injury issue. Maybe they thought the players weren't ready for the MLB and didn't want to stunt their progress. I know Herm well. The primary responsibility of the AT is rehab and getting ready for the season. That more the strength and conditioning though they do overlap. I don't necessarily have an issue with Mike Reinhild and the Toradol. While the drug was abused for some things he was a scapegoat for other behind the scenes things in that situation in my view. The overall point is a good one though. With all of the soft tissue injuries in recent years they need to look at all aspects of the off season and season training regimens.

I'm not an expert on all of those other things so I'll let that to those who know more. The injuries are more my lane and I don't know this staff as well I knew past ones and I'd love to know what the protocols are.

I wasn't really commenting on anything against you, more about what things can/should be done because of the vast number of soft tissue injuries that are occuring on this team.

True. However, it should not happen this often for any reason. Plus it's all different areas. Best predictor of injures happening is previous injury to the same muscle/joint. Not sure if groin was one before but it's been pec and hamstring. The hamstring is understandable as he had surgery on it.

We can fix the one leg being a different length. There should be something to do about his soft tissue injuries. You're right where there always seems to be that kind of person who is injury prone, however we should be able to prevent most of it. For position players that is, for pitchers it's atotally different story.

The question always is why? His physiology is the same as yours or anyone else, unless he has some kind of connective tissue disease such as scleroderma that we don't know about.

It's really an outdated concept that stretching/flexibility is the way to prevent muscle injuries. While it can help stretching has been shown to increase flexibility but not necessarily decrease injuries. The most effective way to decrease injuries is strengthening, specifically eccentric strengthening. Here is a good metanalysis looking at over 2600 research articles. It's about hamstring injuries but it applies to all muscles. Overall it's the offseason conditioning that really matters not the day to day activity. The dynamic warmups are key for the daily preparation as opposed to the static stretching. They obviously aren't doing something right. The American Journal of Sports Medicine 2023;51(7):1927–1942 DOI: 10.1177/03635465221083998 It's too big to attach. But if you do a search with the DOI number you should be able to see the article.

Excellent article. Thanks!

With the most expensive piece missing a good portion of the year so far undergoing chemo treatment.

Imagine the difference if Hendriks hadn't gotten sick.

Too bad baseball is a great game to watch and enjoy. But to each his own.

We was definitely focused on the ball.

If you watched that game and took that from it, you can't enjoy baseball.

Good thing the Tigers were worse.

That was one of the weirdest games I've seen in 50 years of going to games, including the ones I've worked. It was hilarious.