Three Games, Four Injuries

March 8, 2010 at 6:56 pm | Posted in Casey Blake, Cory Wade, George Sherrill, Russell Martin | 7 Comments

Russell Martin’s groin is still the talk of camp, but he’s hardly the only one dealing with injuries. Casey Blake left today’s game after 2 innings due to a strained muscle in his right side, and Cory Wade received a cortisone shot in his right shoulder, which will shut him down for two weeks.

Wade had almost no shot of making the club anyway, and by all accounts Blake’s injury is the sort of incredibly minor thing that wouldn’t stop him in July, but isn’t worth pushing through in March. That’s fine. Yet it seems that Wade isn’t the only reliever who’s sore, either, according to a line buried deep in the game recap from today’s tilt against the Giants:

[George] Sherrill opened the spring with sore knees and was further slowed by taking a line drive off his right ankle last week.

First I’ve heard of any of that. Clearly, it’s not something the team is all that concerned about since no one’s talking about it and Sherrill’s scheduled to pitch against Colorado tomorrow, but certainly worth keeping an eye on. With Ronald Belisario still MIA, the last thing this club needs is another important reliever unable to contribute.

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It starting to look like Gagne might break camp with the team afterall!!
I’m starting to get a bad feeling about 2010….

Comment by Mud— March 8, 2010 #

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At least Manny’s good again.

DeWitt and Reed Johnson are better than I thought they’d be.

Comment by Dre— March 8, 2010 #

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- DeWitt is sure as hell trying to make a case offensively for why he should be on the club. I’m hoping he keeps it up and can prove himself defensively as well.
  
  Comment by Dr. Acula— March 9, 2010 #
  
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Hm, so the two aging players we traded for have injury concerns, and the players we traded to get them would have filled in at the our areas of need (3rd, catcher). Seems like someone made a grievous mistake.

Comment by Table— March 9, 2010 #

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Basically Ned liked Blake and Sherill so much more than Dewitt and Biemel that he was willing to trade two top prospects. I hate that.

Comment by Table— March 9, 2010 #

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Christ you guys are defeatists! its not even that deep into ST and already 2010 is a wash? c’mon!

Comment by T— March 9, 2010 #

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[...] But this? No, not even I saw this coming. We first started hearing about trouble with Sherrill in the first days of spring training, as he’d reported with sore knees and then took a line drive off his right ankle, though it [...]

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