Austin Kearns was officially placed on the 15 day DL today due to “loose bodies,” in his elbow. Kearns is expected to get surgery and miss 3-4 weeks. As funny as it sounds, it’s actually a relatively harmless problem. Basically a small piece of cartilage or a bone chip has broken off his elbow and is floating around in there. It is supposed to cause pain but I can’t see any pain in your elbow significantly effecting your hitting. He’s going to get arthroscopic surgery and should be “good as new,” in several weeks, assuming new was ever good for Austin Kearns.
I think Kearns taking a break from the line up will be a good thing for everyone involved. Some of this awful hitting has to be mental, and a few weeks away from the stress to collect himself along with some rehab may fix that. This may also ease the pressure off Elijah Dukes and Wily Mo Pena who won’t have to compete for the starting corner spot.
I’m officially suggesting the Nats bring up Escobar.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Kearns out 3-4 Weeks
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Is that a picture of Kearns running the bases? Was it taken last year?
Is there any word on who they are actually pulling up?
Also, the thought was raised at my work today: Would it be a horrible plan to put Boone in the outfield? he's hitting. He could potentially track down a fly ball. I'm just saying, I'm sure he plays left better than Wily Mo, and he can hit. And is hitting. This or Boone to second and FLop to the outfield. Things need to be done.
Re Boone, not a bad idea, though it leaves no backup for Young at first base.
Still there are no attractive options for the outfield above AA right now.
It's remarkable to think that the outfield was supposedly where the team had upgraded this year.
I remember being so giddy at the prospect of the power our outfield could bring. The idea of last year's Pena, with a prospective Milledge and Kearns who could always maybe sort of kinda be able to possibly hit a few homers. Dukes in the mix led me to believe that competition would lead to an outfield city hadn't seen since Frank Howard was here. Well, maybe not that great, but I was still excited.
Ha. Man, I set my self up for some bad news.
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