Showing posts with label Toronto Blue Jays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toronto Blue Jays. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

JA Happ Returns from the Hospital.

JA Happ who was hit by a line drive in the head was luckily released from the hospital today only a day after the injury. The injury is similar to a boy in the Little league World Series who was hit by a line drive and he saved himself with the brim of his hat taking most of the impact. For Happ, there was no brim just his skull.

"I don't remember seeing it," he said. "Just immediate loud ringing in my ear. Just pressure on my ear, and I was on the ground. That was kind of it. It took me a few seconds to kind of figure out what was going on, but I do remember them being there ... the coaches and Gibby (manager John Gibbons) and obviously, the trainers. I was coherent and talking pretty quickly."

Happ has a skull fracture and was put on the 15 day DL and does not know when he will be able to pitch again, except that he will eventually.

To prevent these dangerous and in some cases life threatening injuries by having multiple companies design headwear for the pitchers. There are up to 12 companies working on it, but so far there has been no luck in finding a sufficient model.

By David B.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Jose Reyes Goes Down

The Toronto Blue Jays acquired one of the most dynamic base runners in the game of baseball over the off-season, Jose Reyes. Sadly, he has been carted off of the field after sliding into second base and he seams to be badly injured. One scenario is that he will be back in only 4 weeks with a sprained left anke. The other is...
"The other scenario could be three months, or if something comes up we're not expecting, it could be more than that," Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said late Friday night.

This will be a big problem for the Blue Jays this year because they put a heck of a team together out of nothing, but some raw talent and a lot of money. So to see this start to crumble with the biggest man of all going down is just sad to see. Hopefully the other new members like R.A Dickey, Melky Cabrera, Jose Bautista, and Emilio Bonafacio can keep their team alive without their shortstop.

By David B.