Can anyone smarter than me tell me if this has long term injury potential? A non-contact torn cartilage injury from swinging so hard doesn’t sound good, or easily avoidable unless you don’t swing as hard.
Casas has a left rib fracture. Transferred to the 60 Day IL on 4/27.
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I did break a rib sneezing but it was 6 months after breaking a rib by falling off a 20’ scaffold
So it’s been almost a month. Any updates on Casas? I see he’s at Fenway and watching BP, but haven’t heard anything beyond that.
Obviously he’s on the 60 day IL, so he can’t return until late June anyway, I’m just hoping to hear good news.
Obviously he’s on the 60 day IL, so he can’t return until late June anyway, I’m just hoping to hear good news.
Why does that report say torn cartilage--which makes sense--when the original prognosis was a fractured rib?
Am I remembering this wrong? Or medically are the two terms interchangeable? Seems wrong.
Note: I didn't bother reading back to see if this was already addressed.
Am I remembering this wrong? Or medically are the two terms interchangeable? Seems wrong.
Note: I didn't bother reading back to see if this was already addressed.
This is great, thank you!
To save folks a click, here's the summary from the link:
Running and throwing after 3-4 weeks does seem like it's toward the early end of the timeline, which is great!
Hopefully he continues to recover on this schedule and -- I imagine? -- we really get him back by the end of June. That would be enormous for this team.
Not the same, but sometimes they just are not that precise with terminology. The ribs turn into cartilage before connecting to the sternum.
Sometimes they just say ribs to keep it simple, but presumably if it's been described as cartilage by a legit source at some point, then the cartilaginous portion is what is injured, not the bony part.
Is there any concern that this could have a longer-term effect on his hitting? It sounded like a pretty unusual injury, especially for a guy his age.
I’ve worried about that. It certainly didn’t sound good that he reported being told this injury was “inevitable” given the way he swung.
But defer to other folks who know more about how the body works about whether he risks re-injury unless he changes his swing somehow.
Thanks for the response.
As I said earlier in this thread: I've experienced both, and the torn rib cartilage was worse.
Weird that the reporting on this was so off. Garbage work by anyone who said "fractured rib" like they don't understand the difference?
But I'm glad he's feeling better. Hope it continues that way.
I don’t understand how his swing is that much different from a hundred other guys who swing hard. Nobody swings as hard as Devers but this hasn’t been an issue for him.
Let's get his brother too.
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Looking ahead to Casas' return date (yet TBD) it's going to be interesting to see what the plan will be for a back up first baseman. Currently I'm liking Dom Smith, but there's not a place on the 26 man for another lefty at first and to date Cooper hasn't shown enough to warrant a roster spot once Casas and others start returning from the IL. Perhaps when O'Neill's back Cooper gets cut loose and RFsnyder can start getting more reps at 1B, splitting time there with Smith and in the OF. He's definitely earning his AB's and perhaps can finally solve the Sox backup issues at first. While it doesn't show in the box score I understand Dalbec's place on the team, but if RFsnyder can become THE in-house solution to the question that has become "Who's on first if not Casas?" perhaps Dalbec's spot on the 40 man can be opened up for someone else. With 4 games coming up on the road against the lowly White Sox and O'Neill hopefully back, it could be a good opportunity to get RFsnyder a couple of starts at 1B.