March 25, 2021 – Injuries can happen at any time, but needless injuries, in spring training to boot, can take the heart right out of a club, the fanbase and completely change the fortunes of a season. On this day the White Sox announced that Eloy Jimenez, one of the best young sluggers in baseball at the time would be lost for most of the season, because of a ruptured left pectoral tendon.

He suffered the injury when getting hung up on the top of the fence trying to catch a ball hit by the A’s Sean Murphy the day before, a ball that wasn’t catchable. Sox broadcaster Steve Stone was particularly critical of Jimenez even attempting to try to catch a meaningless home run in a spring training game and putting himself at risk.

Since getting called up in 2019, Jimenez had been injured multiple times when dealing with trying to play left field. His injury was more common in football and most likely happened on impact when his left arm hit the top of the fence.

After an intensive rehab lasting four months, he returned to the team on July 26 but injury issues continued to dog him and he was traded to the Orioles in 2024.  

The irony of him actually trying for a needless ball in ST and blowing out his shoulder, when he was consistently lazing about when the games really counted is just too much man.

3 hours ago, chitownsportsfan said:

The irony of him actually trying for a needless ball in ST and blowing out his shoulder, when he was consistently lazing about when the games really counted is just too much man.

What a pud.