MRI revealed a partially torn ligament in his wrist. He’ll receive daily treatments for the rest of the week and be re-evaluated next week.
MRI revealed a partially torn ligament in his wrist. He’ll receive daily treatments for the rest of the week and be re-evaluated next week.
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So a sprained wrist
tough break, thankfully we have Culberson and also have Camargo who can play short some too.
He will likely be fine.
That’s certainly not great news. Hopefully Dansby responds well to the treatments. The good thing is Culberson is there to play and he played well last postseason for the Dodgers.
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i'd probably start Culberson over Swanson more in playoffs at short anyway. But you still want to have Swanson healthy and able to help on defense too.
The nagging thing here is I think we still don't know who Dansby Swanson is. Jim Powell was saying on the radio before he tweaked his swing that it looked like his wrist was bothering him again and he'd have to have a cleanup surgery in his wrist in the offseason. This is backed up by...his hard contact rates, even though he had two flurries after his initial great start where he looked pretty good never getting to where they were during that initial great start again. Ivan the Great over at talkingchop thinks Dansby never fully recovered.
So we pretty much are going to have to go through a THIRD full season and hope it's his moment of truth now as it is looking like the wrist brought him down this time. It was likely to happen regardless but it has to now.
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
jpx7 (09-26-2018)
cajunrevenge (09-27-2018), jpx7 (09-26-2018), The Chosen One (09-26-2018)
I can't imagine Swanson plays much in the NLDS. I would go ahead and assume Culberson will be playing SS in October.
Last edited by Braves1976; 09-27-2018 at 04:22 PM.
Well, shiste. That's a blow to our post-season bench. Who takes his place on the bench now? Oh ke-riste, that probably mean Flaherty makes the postseason roster. Just kill me now.
jpx7 (09-26-2018)
If Swanson can't go, I think it would be a back-up 3b like Ruiz or Flaherty, with Camargo, Ozzie, and Culberson all being able to play SS as needed.
Might be a good thing.
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