Perhaps because it wasn't deemed necessary until now?
And Kike.
His elbow has been in question since his final Rockies season and was brought up vaguely by Peter Gammons last May.
I know that. Doesn't mean that surgery was inevitable or they knew he'd need it in January 2023.
You don't need to be a doctor to know that thumbs and elbows are different body parts.
You can’t force someone to have a procedure, but what an incredible misstep in decision making.
Well it certainly doesn’t help in the case his diminished velocity was positional lead rather than injury.
Only to someone who's never played baseball and/or never had to ramp up for a sports season.
Well we don't know how this has gone down, so we don't know that it's a misstep at all. Maybe the docs said he has an 80% chance of being just fine with rest, and generally speaking you'd rather heal by rest than have surgery. But maybe that 20% showed up and he needed surgery after all.
and calls out Bob
And that tweet by Nightengale is poorly worded. Knew very well he would need surgery, or knew it was a possibility, and opted to try and avoid it with a rest and rehab program?
How does being "quite aware of needing surgery" square with "hoping to not have surgery?"
This has been an issue for multiple years apparently and this team was effectively eliminated in late August / early September. Now our only middle infielders are Christian Arroyo (who hasn't played in more than 87 games since 2017) and Kike (who is going to get awfully tired manning both Shortstop and Center Field).
Literally nobody has ever said that Story's elbow was all better. There is zero correlation between one guy with an existing condition and other people's bodies which had injuries which have since healed, apart from your desire to freak out about all of them.
yeah, I would guess that the real story there is....
How is it the medical staff failing? They can't force him to get surgery, nor honestly, can they really tell what a couple months of rest will result in. This is the pattern with these types of injuries in all sports, nobody WANTS to have surgery, so if it's borderline they almost always see if rest and rehab can fix things, then they ramp up and if the problem returns... surgery time.
I mean literally all he has to do to make that make sense is say "might" need surgery instead of "would" need surgery.
Would think Valdez is more likely, or even Rafaela, but who knows.
By "botched" you mean they knew what to do but for some reason decided not to do it? Do people really think these guys are all that out to lunch? It's an injured body part, it's far more likely they wanted to see if there was a less invasive alternative to surgery that would work. We see this in sports all the time; don't get surgery unless you have to. If you mean they made a bad bet on him healing, maybe, but I wouldn't assume much without being in the room with the doctor and hearing what s/he had to say. They certainly gambled and lost, but they may have had good reasons to be optimistic. Or maybe they told Story, it's your body, we can't order you to get surgery, and he wanted to wait and see.
Admittedly I'm speculating here, but I recall (and linked below) a situation where the medical staff suggested surgery for Schilling and he wanted to rehab. It's entirely possible that the same happened with Story. In which case, consider this my apology to the medical staff. Assuming however that this isn't the case and the path chosen was the incorrect path, then I would be appropriate in criticizing the medical staff.
Can't you say that about, like... any possible scenario?
