Beachy Likely to Have 2nd Tommy John Surgery

Millwood1Hitter said:
We've had so many good pitchers come through our system lately that had early success at the major league level that flamed out due to some sort of injury. I understand that is the way it works but my golly this is damn frustrating and infuriating to say the least.

Wasn't that long ago we had:

Jair Jurrjens: that proved he was a top of the rotation starter with 3 solid years and had a bright future ahead of him until a freak knee injury ended his career

Tommy Hansen: One of the best prospects in all of baseball that showed he was a dominant starter his first few years in MLB until shoulder problems diminished his effectiveness

Johnny Venters: Guy was absolute beast and unhittable relievers in game, still recovering and don't know how he will respond yet to second TJ surgery

Now Beachy & Medlen?

Really, what the hell is going on here?

Bad medical department? Poor throwing program? Bad mechanics being taught?

Somebody needs to do some explaining becasue this is pathetic!
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Lol calm down. What's too explain ? They got hurt again , that's life. Just a freak thing that's no ones fault.
 
Knucksie said:
The first surgery must've been botched up for this to happen so soon after expected recovery.
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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?
 
Wow, what are the chances that four prominent pitchers for the Braves in the past two years, O'Flaherty and Venters last year, Medlen and Beachy this year, would all need TJ surgery. That is either extremely bad luck, or something or someone is doing something wrong in our organization.

Having said that, I still think we should be OK for the rotation. Though Minor and Santana may not be ready for opening day, they should be ready by mid-April. That will leave a rotation of:

Minor
Teheran
Santana
Wood
Garcia/Hale - will be replaced by Floyd sometime in May

That is still pretty darn good.
 
Hawk said:
We need to bring in another arm, IMO. Even with the Santana signing the rotation is looking fragile as all get out.
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Not necessarily, once Gavin Floyd comes back, your rotation is still Santana, Teheran, Minor, Wood and Floyd with Hale and Garcia as back up. Still in good shape.
 
This is not surprising. Beachy was having too many issues, he couldn't go a start or two without something popping up. I think this explains why we were so quick to jump on Santana. Wren probably had a feeling he was about to lose two starters.

You just have to hope that Floyd can get back by May, if so then we aren't all that bad off.
 
If 2nd Tommy John surgeries are so difficult to come back from, why did we commit all of this money to Venters this year?
 
AUTiger7222 said:
I was just watching a video yesterday and the Blue Jays and Romero came up and Ken Rosenthal said that Romero was having a great spring in trying to win a job in the Blue Jays rotation. Dude is still very young and he's done great in the past so you know the potential is there even if we haven't seen it in the last couple of years.
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I sort of doubt the Braves would go for Romero given the number of walks he usually allows, but with a strong bounce-back campaign, coupled with a lot of losses for the Blue Jays through June, he could be an option down the line. For the moment, though, Toronto is weak enough as it is in their rotation—plus Anthopoulos may still be stinging from Wren's swoop-in job on Santana.
 
I laughed when I read the title of this thread. Not that I enjoy Beachy's or the Braves' current fortunes, but because how so damn absurd this is. I really wanted Wood to have a prominent role in our rotation; looks like I got my wish.
 
Gary82 said:
I laughed when I read the title of this thread. Not that I enjoy Beachy's or the Braves' current fortunes, but because how so damn absurd this is. I really wanted Wood to have a prominent role in our rotation; looks like I got my wish.
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Lets just hope Wood doesnt follow the trend and need his 2nd TJ. We could wind up with Kameron Loe again.
 
Teheran
Wood
Garcia
Hale (one start--or two--before Santana is ready)
Santana
Minor

If we care about Wood's innings, we need another pitcher.
 
Go get Bud Norris. For everyone ****ting all over me for not liking the Santana signing here's something for you to chew on.

Santana fWAR
2009 - 1.1
2010 - 1.9
2011 - 2.6
2012 - (1.0)
2013 - 3.0
TOTAL - 7.6

Norris fWAR
2009 - 0.3
2010 - 1.6
2011 - 1.6
2012 - 1.5
2013 - 2.7
TOTAL - 7.7

And Norris did that while pitching mostly for terrible teams.
 
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