2025 Spring Training Thread

Carp said:
Murphy is a damn China doll. Easily the worst Braves trade since sending Simba to the Angels for Newk. And I'm someone who has generally been a Murphy supporter, even through last season.
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Getting hit in the ribs is bad luck, doesnt prove Murph is injury prone.
 
Murphy injury prone lol. So Riley is injury prone for breaking a bone in his hand by getting hit last year? It happens.
 
msstate7 said:
Am i missing some?
Austin Riley injuries - 1
Sean Murphy injuries - 2
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This will be MethHeads 3rd significant injury with the Braves not including the (self admitted) second half melt down from hot weather in '23... I won't miss him when he is gone.

To be fair, Riley has had 2 significant injuries in that same time frame..however, he doesn't melt when it is hot.
 
Carp said:
How often has Riley been injured?
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I'm saying that Murphy getting a broken rib on a 96 heater is just back luck and not an indicator that he's injury prone. Austin's was bad luck also, doesn't mean he's injury prone.
 
msstate7 said:
Am i missing some?
Austin Riley injuries - 1
Sean Murphy injuries - 2
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3 injuries actually. 2 injuries in 2024. 1 in 2023. And that doesn't include getting too hot.

And, as strange as it may sound, he did indeed have a career before he came to Atlanta

From the internets:

Oakland Athletics catcher Sean Murphy will be sidelined for several weeks after having surgery for a collapsed lung but is expected to be fine and fully recovered by Opening Day. - Linky

According to the A's, their third-ranked prospect underwent surgery on his left knee Thursday, which also was his 25th birthday. They expect him to be ready by Spring Training. After being limited to 194 games over his first three seasons due to hand injuries, broken wrists and a staph infection, Murphy battled a torn meniscus in his left knee this season, leading to two stints on the injured list. - Linky
 
Hudson2 said:
I'm saying that Murphy getting a broken rib on a 96 heater is just back luck and not an indicator that he's injury prone. Austin's was bad luck also, doesn't mean he's injury prone.
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Again, trends are trends, luck or not. Maybe he's more unlucky than most. Or maybe he's more prone to injury than others.
 
jpx7 said:
Murphy had never hit the IL before last season’s oblique strain. Now he’s felled by a freak HBP. I think it’s wildly premature to label him “injury prone.”

I was one of the biggest Contreras fans around, constantly lamented Snitker not playing him more, and took a pretty dim view of the Murphy trade precisely because it cost Contreras. But we can still be factual when we talk about Sean Murphy, even while we mourn William Contreras.
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Fine, he's not injury prone. He struggled with heat, then an oblique, then a HBP. But catchers decline like clockwork because it's a tough position where injuries pile up, which I suppose is more of my issue with him. To be even more precise, my issue isn't with him, it's with the idea of extending him into his 30s despite the typical aging curve for catchers after giving up a young catcher who was clearly a young star...and he is just the target of my grumpiness.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
This will be MethHeads 3rd significant injury with the Braves not including the (self admitted) second half melt down from hot weather in '23... I won't miss him when he is gone.

To be fair, Riley has had 2 significant injuries in that same time frame..however, he doesn't melt when it is hot.
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Yeah, people acting like Murphy's availability hasn't been an issue is a little odd, but whatever. Not worth arguing over.
 
And to everyone arguing that Anderson is worth "seeing what he has"...we will see I guess.

It's pretty clear to me he isn't a viable MLB SP on a contender, but I suppose we will all get to watch this experiment play out. Maybe his stuff ticks back up as he builds up in ST.
 
Enscheff said:
And to everyone arguing that Anderson is worth "seeing what he has"...we will see I guess.

It's pretty clear to me he isn't a viable MLB SP on a contender, but I suppose we will all get to watch this experiment play out. Maybe his stuff ticks back up as he builds up in ST.
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Yeah... I guess it makes a level of sense given Strider's injury and two rotation spaces, but I'd prefer to just go with Holmes and AJSS (or Elder, tbh) and just keep rolling. Ian looks cooked.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
Yeah... I guess it makes a level of sense given Strider's injury and two rotation spaces, but I'd prefer to just go with Holmes and AJSS (or Elder, tbh) and just keep rolling. Ian looks cooked.
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The question becomes then what do you do with Ian. He is out of options and someone would pick him up if they DFA'd him.. but is he worth stashing in the pen not getting many reps.
 
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