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Sorry, haven't run into too many of these. Orthopedic injuries are my specialty. I'll leave this one to the other experts in this board.

He could that guy. However, until he has sufficient at bat's at the MLB we won't know. Plenty of guys hit in the MiLB and not in the MLB. Plenty of guys have struggled for a couple of months or even their first year and have had good careers. You can't say anything about his MLB potential after 90 at bat's.

Very selfish. You can't pull the ball there.

90 at bats is not plenty of time. Talk to Robin Ventura who started out 0-41.

We did not disclose much of anything when it came to injuries. I suppose it may have changed some with partnerships with sports books but I know part of it isn't how they report injuries.

The primary issue is the personal trainers. Baseball has a unique skill set that not all of them will truly understand. Being fit in general does not necessarily correlate to preventing injuries throughout a 6 month competitive season with few days off.

Do they need the players permission? Personally, if the reason to disclose or not disclose injury information is for gambling, I would tell them as little as possible. I'm going to pull the old guy card, "that's what we used to do in the old days"

I really don't think they should share medical issues with the general public. It's probably against many HIPAA regulations as well.

Do you know that Anderson isn't feeling some soreness from playing after his return? There are many reasons that we will never know for why players aren't in the lineup. The manger will probably says it's a day off to take the heat off the player. But that is frequently not the case.

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Everything they described fits with it.

Yeah, oblique strains are usually 3-6 weeks minimum. They are nasty for a hitter.

They are the Cubs station. They must do what they can to trash non score products. Haugh really is stuck in the company line.

They do that well.

As with most things it's rarely one person or one sides total fault. There is usually issues for both sides. I would guess there was a meeting privately. Grifol doesn't seem like a guy who would do this after only one incident. However, I don't know him so I could be wrong and he lost his temper and pulled for just this incident.

It's possible it all happened the way you outlined. Maybe they went through it all he still didn't listen, had the discussion behind closed doors still didn't listen and that's why it has ended in a benching during the game. Grifol doesn't seem like a guy to have a knee jerk reaction to a single incident. He seems pretty calm and thoughtful. Not knowing the whole situation there is no way to know for sure.

Or is this why no one outbid the Sox for him? The Sox don't typically spend the most on a player. Maybe it's a Jalen Carter situation and everyone else passed.

Its a possibility but players performance isn't necessarily tied to it. After 30+ years of working with athletes I'm biased but it's usually the athletes that have the out of control egos. When Grifol was hired there were many players who loved and respected the guy and reaved about him. Without knowing the people involved it could be either. I wouldn't jump to conclusions either way.

No one is healthy all the time. With very few days off there are always small issues that can limit them.

No. Some people are just jerks or full if themselves and don't listen. That's a possibility but not a given.

Do you know this? Not saying it isn't true. But is it this or is he willingly ignoring them and that is the reason for the benching. Without being inside the clubhouse we don't know. Players in past decades would not tell the management things to keep playing. This group hasn't earned that with their injury history.

True. I don't think it was a conscious lack of effort. It was he was sore and tight from the day before so he didn't want to risk injury but he still wanted to play. Maybe its a holdover from last year when they were told to back it down to decrease injury. The bottom line is they will be healthier if they tell the medical staff what is going on and not try to manage it themselves.

Don't disagree. Just saying what looks like is going on with the manager/medical staff with injuries. They aren't trusting the players to manage themselves. And I don't really blame them.

What this tells me is that that they are being so conservative with injury concerns this year based on recent history that the players aren't telling them what's really going on. It's a tough call as the players have had so many significant injuries, I'm not sure I would trust them "to know their own bodies" either.

No a straight torque does not produce a shear force in a solid object. So my argument is that they are 2 separate directions for a force in a single structure.