What In The World? Albert Pujols Injury Talks Grow
Posted by: Knox Bardeen in Injury UpdatesThank you for visiting Crooked Pitch! While you're here you'll find tons of valuable fantasy baseball information to help you win your fantasy baseball league. If you're new here, or haven't done so yet, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Say it ain’t so…
Let me first preface this blog post by saying that neither the St. Louis Cardinals nor Albert Pujols himself have verified these rumors. I’m doing my best right now to get a definite answer, but any fantasy GM who is going into a draft soon with an early to middle pick in the first round needs to listen up. Listen up!!!
A few very prominent bloggers have posted stories about Albert Pujols and his health going into the 2008 season.
MLBnewsonline writes about Pujols,
“He was already voicing concern about his right elbow, which probably needs Tommy John surgery, and if that elbow (or the back or the hammies) give him significant trouble…he might not be able to battle through the pain again.”
Speculation is growing that Dominican slugger may miss significant portions or perhaps even all of the season, though it doesn’t seem to make sense that Pujols would have waited this late to make the decision to undergo invasive medical procedures had he not already committed to try to play in 2008.
Eric at Fake Teams writes,
The question fantasy players have to deal with is how much this report from a radio personality is new information and how much it just has its source in the Albert press conference. No fantasy player who has drafted Albert Pujols wants this to be new info because it means there 1st round pick in 2008 was just flushed down the toilet.
I’m not sure I’m on the bandwagon of believability yet, as this is shocking news. I find it hard to believe that Pujols would have waited until this close to Spring Training to decide to have surgery. I also think that Pujols saying that he wouldn’t play through elbow pain again in 2008 is a far cry from anyone announcing that he needs surgery and will miss the 2008 season. Lets not put the cart before the horse. I want facts and I want them now.
More to come…
Entries (RSS)
February 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I agree with your sentiment in the closing paragraph. He’s been close to needing Tommy John surgery since his days in the outfield (2002 or 2003?) where he took the Luis Gonzalez approach to throwing the ball in (i.e. limp throws) to protect the ligament. That was the major factor that moved him to 1B.
However, the StL medical staff seems to be a tad inept (Carpenter, Rolen) so maybe he SHOULD have had the surgery at the conclusion of the season, but like Carp, they delayed.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:37 am
[…] of a serious Albert Pujols injury are floating […]
April 21st, 2008 at 10:30 am
[…] of a serious Albert Pujols injury are floating […]