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LogansDad

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santadevil said:
I didn't even realize he'd opted out from Detroit and signed with Arizona
Looks like a good call financially for himself, but it seems like the Covid year messed him up a bit too
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Well, he did get myocarditis from having COVID, so I'd say it messed him up.
 
soxhop411

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Verdugo is apparently allergic to his batting gloves...

These cherished moments with the family allowed Verdugo to forget about baseball for a few days. It couldn’t have come at a better time. Verdugo had been slumping for a month and he’d just blown the Yankees’ last game before the All-Star break in Baltimore — a setback that dropped his team out of first place. A standout defensive player, Verdugo misplayed a two-out-in-the-ninth fly ball that would’ve ended the game, but instead scored the tying and winning runs.
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Verdugo used the midseason break to decompress, but there was another reason he stayed in New York: a doctor’s appointment. After three seasons of sores and pain in his hands and fingers, Verdugo was tired of constantly wrapping his palms with gauze and knuckles with medical tape. And as much as he was convinced his hands weren’t the reason for his slumping, his statistics suggested something was wrong.



Verdugo was a career .281 hitter coming into the season, but was hitting nearly 50 points below that in the first half of his first season with the Yankees.



He wanted to know why.



“My hands hurt,” Verdugo told NJ Advance Media recently. “They blister. Then it opens and starts scabbing. It’s like super dry skin. I’ve been dealing with this since they started barking in ‘21.”
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After examining Verdugo, the Yankees’ medical team sent him to an allergist. They believed he was coming in contact with a material that was causing dermatitis, a skin condition that can produce rashes, itching and blisters.



“You’re allergic to your batting gloves,” the doctor said.



Verdugo was flabbergasted.



Batting gloves?



“Yeah,” Verdugo responded, revealing that his allergic reactions were traced to two chemicals in his Franklin batting gloves — cobalt and chromate.



“Chromate is used in curing the leather,” Verdugo said. “And cobalt is found in the color dyes.”



NJ Advance Media spoke to two doctors, one of whom believes Verdugo’s condition might be related to the ink in the many tattoos covering his chest and arms. Neither has examined Verdugo and both are speculating on possible causes and cures.



“It’s probably the tattoos,” said Dr. Arthur Lubitz, a Manhattan-based allergist who has been a Yankees fan since the late 1950s. “It’s very rare, but the tattoos are made of metal ink and you can get a tattoo allergy to the metal.”
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https://www.nj.com/yankees/2024/08/yankees-alex-verdugos-hitting-struggles-are-a-mystery-that-maybe-only-doctors-can-solve.html
 
DJnVa

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Was at the Padres/Rockies game last night--watched Bogaerts go yard, and I was a little melancholy.

Then I recalled how much he's getting paid.
 
67YAZ

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A Korean friend of mine recently got back from a trip back to visit family, and Byung Kim's has a burger chain that is expanding quickly in cities around the country.

 
nattysez

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Michael Kopech in LA: 10.1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 0 R, 15K

Dodger devil magic, or the impact of being freed from baseball Hell?
 
DanoooME

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nattysez said:
Michael Kopech in LA: 10.1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 0 R, 15K

Dodger devil magic, or the impact of being freed from baseball Hell?
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Yes.

In other news, long ago Sox prospect Casey Kelly has returned to the majors for the Cincinnati Reds after years in Korea
 
ledsox

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Kind of a fun sequence in the Mets-Padres game yesterday. Martin Perez pitched to JD Martinez who drilled a ground ball passed a diving Xander. Up next was Iggy, who of course the Sox traded in ‘’13 because Xander was on the verge.

Another former SS, Jackson Merrill (no Sox connection) walked it off again for SD.
 
Apisith

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Sale’s throwing 99mph today, his average fastball velocity this year is the highest since 2015.

I mean, I’m happy for the guy. But, come on. We would be contending for the AL East with him.
 
SemperFidelisSox

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At this point I’m wondering two things…

Did the Sox medical staff make mistakes with him the last few years?
or
Did Sale just stop making the effort to pitch more?

A simple change of scenery doesn’t explain increased velocity and durability.
 
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Petagine in a Bottle said:
It’s like Clemens with the Jays.
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Except instead of pitching 242 innings (his lowest total in 4 years) and striking out 20 in a game in his last season with us, Sale pitched 102 innings which was not only the most he’d pitched in 4 years but twice as many as he’d pitched the previous 3 seasons combined.
 
SeoulSoxFan

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67YAZ said:
A Korean friend of mine recently got back from a trip back to visit family, and Byung Kim's has a burger chain that is expanding quickly in cities around the country.

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LOL I didn't know this! I know where we're going for a burger this weekend. Thanks for posting.
 
lexrageorge

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SemperFidelisSox said:
At this point I’m wondering two things…

Did the Sox medical staff make mistakes with him the last few years?
or
Did Sale just stop making the effort to pitch more?

A simple change of scenery doesn’t explain increased velocity and durability.
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My guess is that the Sox medical staff did not direct the line drive to hit his hand in 2022, nor did they tell him to fall off his bike.

The simplest explanation is that he's finally pain free in his elbow and ribs and he was able to completely recover from his shoulder injury from last season. He's certainly had a lot of time to rest over the years! To be fair, he pitched more in 2023 than he did in the previous 2 seasons combined.
 
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lexrageorge said:
My guess is that the Sox medical staff did not direct the line drive to hit his hand in 2022, nor did they tell him to fall off his bike.

The simplest explanation is that he's finally pain free in his elbow and ribs and he was able to completely recover from his shoulder injury from last season. He's certainly had a lot of time to rest over the years! To be fair, he pitched more in 2023 than he did in the previous 2 seasons combined.
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Well said. There's a far stronger case to make that the Sox brass missed whatever signs there may have been that Sale was due for a healthy and CY caliber season than there is that they fucked up the last four years by not doing enough to keep Sale healthy. Ultimately what happened is they bet on black every spring since 2020, and it kept landing on red. They finally gave up and walked away from the wheel, then the very next spin landed on black. Oh well.
 
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Schwarber just hit his third homer of the night, to put the Phillies up 10-8 in the top of the 9th. Is 5-6 overall, what a monster game.
 
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