Yesterday I\u00c2\u00a0wrote about the disruption caused by injuries and in particular the fragile nature of a pitcher’s arm.<\/p>\n
“Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope the inevitable injuries are kept to a minimum this year and the pennants are decided by the players on the field, rather than the players left on the treatment table”,<\/em> or so I said.<\/p>\n Well, I guess I could try and find a way out of this.\u00c2\u00a0 The Rays didn’t have much of a shot at winning a pennant in any case, after all.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I can’t help feeling that I might have tempted fate.<\/p>\n Both ESPN.com<\/a> and MLB.com<\/a> are reporting that Scott Kazmir is to undergo a “precautionary MRI scan” on his left elbow after feeling some discomfort during a warm-up today, a sensation described as “scary” by the Rays’ ace.\u00c2\u00a0 The emphasis is currently on\u00c2\u00a0the word “precautionary” and all parties are talking optimistically that it won’t turn out to be a major problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Kazmir thinks that he may have just hyper-extended his elbow.\u00c2\u00a0 He took the sensible option of stopping right away and getting it checked out, with the hope that no damage has been done and\u00c2\u00a0that a\u00c2\u00a0bit of rest will see him back on the mound in no time at all.<\/p>\n But I’d like to get my excuses in just in case.\u00c2\u00a0 It really wasn’t my fault.\u00c2\u00a0 Honest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I\u00c2\u00a0wrote about the disruption caused by injuries and in particular the fragile nature of a pitcher’s arm. “Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope the inevitable injuries are kept to a minimum this year and the pennants are decided by the players on the field, rather than the players left on the treatment table”, or so I said. Well, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}