Beachy Likely to Have 2nd Tommy John Surgery

BRule said:
Wait....people were actually counting on Beachy to not only pitch BUT pitch well this year? Why?
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Well, it's really simple, most pitchers recover from TJ fine. Beachy was less than 2 years removed from his TJ. Most guys who have the operation pitch for years before needing a second or have a weird complication sooner (like Brian Anderson) Beachy before going down was sick Hell even including last year he has a career 3.23 ERA and 3.34 FIP.
 
stpeteirish said:
Agree. Maybe its time to reevaluate who we use for these procedures. This would be the third surg on Beachy, he did a clean up in the fall. What could have changed since then?
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James Andrews is 70+ years old. His fellows do most of his operations with him present to observe. Not sure if he makes exceptions with pro athletes.
 
BRule said:
Well if you go off peoples reaction in this thread, you would think we lost something of expected value.....why freak out over someone we didn't expect anything from?
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well, they kept telling us he was fine. Some of us (like me) were naive enough to believe them. From now one its BS until the player shows it isn't.
 
braves31win said:
James Andrews is 70+ years old. His fellows do most of his operations with him present to observe. Not sure if he makes exceptions with pro athletes.
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Dr. Andrews will one day decide to retire or pass on. If these are the results of his staff's work, with younger pitchers getting TJ surgery twice, then that doesn't bode well for the future. This used to be a one and done procedure. Somebody like Smoltz was the exception, and he had spent several years in the majors before experiencing a 2nd ACL tear.

http://www.11alive.com/story/sports/mlb/atlanta-braves/2014/03/11/kris-medlen-john-smoltz/6310973/
 
Man oh man. Not a funny situation, but I found these on Twitter today. May need something to give us a chuckle, considering the unfortunate circumstances:
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Pitchers break. Quite often and often unexpectedly. Better to avoid long-term contracts with them. I remember there was a clamor a couple years ago to lock Beachy up.
 
I agree with most peoples sentiments. After last year I wasn't going to count on Beachy until he could actually show he was back. It sucks if he has to go under the knife again but it is what it is. Only real concern is Minor. Hopefully he gets going soon and doesn't have to miss more then a couple of weeks.
 
NYCBrave said:
When you have a budget like ours, it is. I remember how people freaked out when we committed 1 mil to Proctor a few years ago.
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Apparently our budget isn't as bad as it used to be. We spent 14 million at the drop of a dime to fix our rotation.
 
Well, godd****it.

Here's hoping Wood and Hale ball out this year. Probably didn't have the money, but this kind of makes me wish we had signed Burnett. He would have gotten hurt, too though.
 
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