Why are injuries dominating spring training headlines?
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz discuss the injuries reported at spring training and question why so many injuries are surfacing now. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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That's what this first week of spring training is really about: who is hurt, who is healthy, and how unhealthy is everybody feeling?
In the last week, we received news that Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets, Corbin Carroll of the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Jackson Holiday of the Baltimore Orioles are all dealing with hamate bone issues.
That is a bone in the hand, not handmate, hamate.
they will all, I believe, require surgery, and they will all, be out for most of spring training.
Corbin Carroll, who was projected to be a starter for the WBC team for Team USA, he's gonna be replaced.
But yeah, dude, this week is just like, it's just a list of ouchies.
Why is this how this works?
Are teams aware of these in- injuries for longer, and then only when all the cameras show up in their face on the first day of spring, do they have to reveal it?
I think in some case, that is exactly what is happening.
But what is your understanding for, for why this kind of gets reported?
'Cause I, I sort of get it, but there's also still also some confusion on my part.
Well, you- I, I just think that there's a difference between injured and hurt, and something that can feel uncomfortable can turn out to be worse than you think it is.
Guys are always dealing with things, and it is difficult to know in the, in the off-season when you're not around a training staff on a daily basis, to know what's good and what's bad.
Now, like, could a player like Corbin Carroll I mean, Corbin Carroll seems different, right?
Like, this seems to be an injury that happened, like, this past week, right?
And I think the same is true with Lindor.
Whereas you have these, you know, Spencer Schwellenbach being out for a while, that seems to be something that was revealed upon arriving to camp.
So yeah, it's just a product of the way that the season flows, and it is weird.
It's like, "Hey, if you were feeling discomfort on January 9th, like, why didn't you get surgery then?"
Yeah, it is an odd time because you get excited for the ball to be back.
It's the warm weather down south in Florida and Arizona, and then your favorite player is, is hurt.
