Matt Harrison out for the season with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

In ribs taken out of players.

what was their rehab time and did they both receive surgery for this?

I was actually hoping that he could come back and make one solid start, and then be one of the chips traded for Halladay….(pipe dream I know)

BTW…why is it always a lefty that has this?

…Tommy Hunter, your time to shine is here…

I would think so.

We are probably still looking at someone cheap both salary-wise and prospect wise.

The two groups of people most likely to develop TOS are those suffering neck injuries in motor vehicle accidents and those who use computers in non-ergonomic postures for extended periods of time. Young overhead athletes (such as swimmers, volleyball players and baseball pitchers) and musicians may also develop thoracic outlet syndrome, but significantly less frequently than the two large groups above.

I guess I’m due for it.

That’s 3/5 of the season’s starting rotation out for a long time.

Fuck-Fuckity-Fuck-Fuck-Fuck.

NAO.

With Moscoso, eventually B-Mac,maybe they try to stretch Jennings out. I think JD has to be working the phones for a veteran starter and a bat now. But they have to be cheap and not cost Smoak, Holand, Feliz, or Perez. Who is out there that fits that bill?

Harrison was the guy that I had put an irrational amount of faith in this year. I was sure that he’d take a step forward from being just one of those mediocre lefties the Rangers tend to run out there to someone who actually has the ability to solidly handle the #3 or #4 spot in a rotation. And it’s sad, because he actually had shown some signs of making that jump before his first injury.

Ugh. I’m annoyed.

I had lost hope on him being more than a fringe starter the rest of the year so it doesn’t exactly devastate my rangers hopes, but its annoying nonetheless.

Dutch, you’ve got to come up big. Sorry for the pressure.

guess that’ll open up a spot on the 40-man

If anyone remembers, TOS is credited with causing JR Richard’s stroke and ending what could have been a HOF career. It’s serious shit.

team is concerned, I don’t think this is a big deal at all. It was already very questionable if Harrison or BMac would be pitching again this year in the majors. Furthermore, the rotation is set with Millwood, Padilla, Feldman, Hunter, and Holland IMO. Harrison has sucked this year outside of a 3 week long run at the beginning of the year anyways. I know a bunch of people here will freak out with me saying this, but I’m growing a little tired of hearing all the talk of how the Tex trade was one of the best of the last several years. I still think we made an excellent deal don’t get me wrong. But Harrison hasn’t developed as hoped and Salty hasn’t hit. Andrus has been excellent and Feliz looks like a TORP (but is far from a sure thing like all young pitchers) and might end up in the pen anyways. I don’t classify that as good deal as most have made it out to be. Sure Salty’s bat could turn around and Feliz becomes an ace, but these things are far from certain. Anyways this news doesn’t bother me at all.

that some medical specialists tend to diagnose whatever it is that is their specialty. I can’t help but wonder if there isn’t some guy that has spent the last twenty years of his life studying Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, and the Rangers keep bringing him patients with one or two symptoms familiar to him, and he keeps saying, “yup, just so happens he has it too.”

Millwood
Pad’s, who will be injured again this year
Feldman
Tommy Boy
Dutch

Nippert, B-Mac, Benson, Mendoza….

Ok, look at that list above… Wouldnt you love to see Neftali at the front of this list? I understand what they are doing with him, but come on it would be nice…

he’s actually making another start on the upcoming Wednesday?
Is it to see if he can actually play through this, or how much pain he’s actually in? I’m a little confused.

it’s something else

What’s amazing, though, is that we’re doing well despite all of these injuries. This team has starting pitching depth. Read that last sentence again , It wasn’t a mirage.

It doesn’t disrupt the team as much as someone who’d been starting, plus there is a nice winning streak going right now.

Does harrison have options left? If there isn’t a trade and sheets is signed, then next year’s rotation is probably Millwood, Sheets, Feldman, Hunter, Holland. That would leave the following guys as bullpen/AAA rotation guys: feliz, harrison, hurley, B-Mac, moscoso, kiker with beavan, poveda, and kirkman at AA to start. That is some serious depth, plus you never know who they sign or deal for and the great Perez will still be charging hard.

I’m kinda more dissapointed we won’t be able to use him as a trade chip at the deadline than the fact that we won’t see him in the roto for the rest of the season.