Spencer Strider

[CrimsonCowboy]

[bravesnumberone]

You think Strider wanted to pitch through an elbow problem? If something was clearly bothering him, he would have said something and took himself out of the game. Sounds like this was gonna happen eventually anyway.

Well he apparently told the trainer as much after the fourth inning. Clearly, though, this message board has a much bigger financial and professional stake in what happens with the team so the buffoon coaching staff can afford to take a nap on the bench and spit sunflower seeds. Never in the history of baseball has someone sat a few miles per hour below on a cold night on the second start of the season.

[bravesnumberone]

Is this injury a cumulative injury? Would it have happened for sure in Chicago Wednesday if no rain out?

I'd wondered whether we would need to skip Strider since he got warmed up and hot before the Chicago game that we all knew was going to get canned. But I assume our resident genius here already beat me to it and probably mentioned it somewhere.

[bravesfanMatt]

Band aide fix worries me. Is it really worth not just fixing the problem and being out a few more months over bracing it and risking it tearing at the brace.

[Enscheff]

The apologists are out in full force, as expected.

[bravesfanMatt]

Has anyone mentioned the terrible board name as it correlates to this injury.

[Enscheff]

Well he apparently told the trainer as much after the fourth inning. Clearly, though, this message board has a much bigger financial and professional stake in what happens with the team so the buffoon coaching staff can afford to take a nap on the bench and spit sunflower seeds. Never in the history of baseball has someone sat a few miles per hour below on a cold night on the second start of the season.

Careful, your lack of understanding about where Strider usually “sits” early in his outings is showing as you bend over backwards to defend the morons in the dugout.

[VirginiaBrave]

Well hopefully this changes the Braves' calculus on Max and they'll make an offer he will look at without dismissing it off hand.

[bravesnumberone]

Careful, your lack of understanding about where Strider usually “sits” early in his outings is showing as you bend over backwards to defend the morons in the dugout.

Cool story, Nostradamus.

[Enscheff]

Cool story, Nostradamus.

Zip up your pants before you bend over backwards to defend the dugout dinosaurs. It will stop your ignorance from falling out.

[chop2chip]

The apologists are out in full force, as expected.

You have weird obsessions

[bravesnumberone]

Zip up your pants before you bend over backwards to defend the dugout dinosaurs. It will stop your ignorance from falling out.

Someone should put them out of their misery.

[CrimsonCowboy]

Let's not start this back and forth crap again, please

[chop2chip]

Band aide fix worries me. Is it really worth not just fixing the problem and being out a few more months over bracing it and risking it tearing at the brace.

I’m in this boat. It really sucks to lose Strider for 2 seasons, but we are financially invested in him for the next six seasons, so might as well be patient.

[CrimsonCowboy]

Good read here

[sturg33]

You have weird obsessions

Creating more imaginary boogeyman to argue with

[bravesnumberone]

Well hopefully this changes the Braves' calculus on Max and they'll make an offer he will look at without dismissing it off hand.

Not so sure they're going to be rushing out to offer a long-term contract to a pitcher at this moment.

[bravesnumberone]

Creating more imaginary boogeyman to argue with

Nevermind that he said, "hopefully just a bit of a dead arm early in the season," then acted like it was absurd for someone else to mention the possibility. Should have been OBVIOUS.

[GovClintonTyree]

The apologists are out in full force, as expected.

Help me out here. If Snit had been on the ball instead of napping (your term), he would have....been alert to the fact that Strider was throwing 94. But if he was throwing 94, wouldn't that mean he was already injured? I mean, the reason he'd be throwing 3 mph slower would be that he suffered an injury. So it would've already happened. Snit wouldn't have been responsible for the injury.

A 5'11" pitcher is extending seven feet and throwing a baseball 97-100 miles per hour repeatedly, violently, with ever-increasing spin rates, over 3,000 times a year not counting bullpens, spring training, long toss from foul line to foul line....seems to me the injury is very likely the result of repetitive stress and an unsustainable model of what modern pitchers are being required to do than an inattentive manager.

I have no particular love for Snitker, but I think you've got to go a long way around to blame a UCL tear in a clearly at-risk pitcher on manager inattentiveness.

[zbhargrove]

Is this injury a cumulative injury? Would it have happened for sure in Chicago Wednesday if no rain out?

I'm certainly no expert, but I would have to assume this would have happened no matter what