He's probably fine.
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He's probably fine.
Make that three! (Raises hand)
UCL injuries are not like car accidents where you get into one and you break a bunch of bones and have trauma which were obviously caused by a car accident. It's a repetitive motion injury that comes from throwing hard since childhood. God didn't make us to be able to throw a baseball 100 MPH.
If he's out we're probably going to have to put Siary in the rotation. But I'd be fine rolling the dice on Nolan Stevens or Luke Dotson. Holcombe struggling is really hurting us right now. I'm guessing we'll see Loftin pitch some in Biloxi but we'll see. Ligon looks better to me than Holcombe did but he has to be able to get more than two batters out to pitch in the rotation.
I agree. But what other choice do we have right now? The longest Stevens has gone is what? 2-3 innings? And Dotson has only been throwing 1 maybe 2 innings at a time.
So any way we do it we're essentially looking at an opener situation. Which we could probably pull off with our bullpen.
Yeah it's because you hear about Kirk Presley throwing 150 pitches in the state championship game in high school or something and then he has a UCL tear and then people point back to that one moment to explain it. Not that I would recommend throwing that many pitches but it's not likely that ONE game that did it.
A rubber band is a good way to put it. Ligaments don't have a ton of elasticity in them. And then in the elbow they're relatively small. But that's where a lot of the stress goes.
Dohm isn't hurt
It’s amazing. I didn’t realize that ucl was the only injury the arm can sustain. Thanks for notifying us though. Geez. Show me anywhere where I even said anything about a ucl injury?