Loading ...…and I’m one of you (I just can’t bring myself to give up; I’m probably even going to make the trip this weekend to watch the team), read this and try not to get too depressed:
It turned out that Reds closer Eddie Guardado’s sore left forearm was more than just a nagging tendinitis injury.
Much more.
Guardado was diagnosed on Wednesday with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow, which will end his season. The tear was revealed when the pitcher underwent a saline-enhanced MRI test, during which colored dye was injected into his arm.
Team medical director Dr. Tim Kremchek delivered the bad news to Guardado at his office on Wednesday morning.
“Just when he came in, his body language wasn’t looking too good,” Guardado said. “He told me and showed me the MRI. You could see the tear. He was saying some other stuff to me, but I was lost after that.”
The Reds moved Guardado from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL and called up veteran pitcher Jason Johnson to take his roster spot.
(Sigh.)
Another mis-diagnosis by Kremcheck?
And Junior is “day-to-day.”
Gloom, dispair and agony on me … deep, dark depression is coming over me … if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all … Gloom, dispair and agony on me
Yeah, even though he wouldn’t really have figured in that much over the past couple weeks with the offense having been as it has, you still can’t say they’ve been doing fine without him. That just sucks.
I think if you hand the ball to Shoenenwise in the 9th the results will most often be good. Problem is they haven’t figured out how to make it to the 9th with a lead recently.
Weathers has been getting the job done well lately too. Those would be my go to guys in a tie to one-run ballgame.
weathers? i travelled nine hours to see the reds play on monday, and what does weathers do? gives up a longball with the score tied to blow the game.
weathers is not the answer. in fact, I don’t there are many, if any, good answers in the Reds’ bullpen.
The best answer would be if all the starters would just do what Bronson did on Tuesday, a CG shutout.
This is a problem beyond this season. He’ll be having Tommy John surgery, with rehab taking up to a year.
to dream the impossible dream …