Game Score: Yankees 7, Twins 1

[USAFChief]

4 hours ago, bean5302 said:

Maeda was pitching hurt and the Twins were facing one of the best starting pitchers in MLB. Seems like a little extra on the rage meter in here. 

Hopefully Maeda wasn't "pitching hurt." If he was, someone needs to be fired.

If he GOT hurt, that's different.

[Mark G]

Is there a lack of communication in this organization, or are we just being lied to day in and day out?  Players/pitchers injured throughout the entire 40 man roster and then some, and all we hear is either it is just day to day and we are just being cautious, or we didn't know he was playing hurt and was just trying to play through it.  Scanning through the current roster I found 9 pitchers on one IL or the other, and that doesn't include Maeda if he is now hurt nor does it include previous trips to the IL by him and others who have since healed.  Add to that 3 players currently on the IL and 5 or more (I counted 5 just at a glance) that have spent a bit of time on the IL earlier and you are talking almost half the 40 man roster either currently hurt or recently hurt.  And, frankly, I don't remember being leveled with by this FO or manager as to the causes, the severity, or the time frames of these injuries.  Maybe that is on a need to know basis, and the fans just don't need to know.  But right now if this manager or FO told me the sun rises in the east, I would call my science teacher for confirmation before I believed it.  Oh, and the above is in 124 games.  And, yeah, I hear about injuries all over the league, and that also makes one wonder what is going on in the game itself.  But that is a discussion for another day, I guess.  In the meantime, another game, another injury, and another collective shrug and shake of the head.  

Berrios and Happ gone (traded), Maeda and Pineda hurt, and Shoemaker dumped for making critical remarks.  Not one starting pitcher left from opening day after 124 games.  And no one will pay a price.  What a gig; where does one apply?  

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 hour ago, Mark G said:

Berrios and Happ gone (traded), Maeda and Pineda hurt, and Shoemaker dumped for making critical remarks.  Not one starting pitcher left from opening day after 124 games.

Good post. That is a really interesting but depressing observation.

[bean5302]

10 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Hopefully Maeda wasn't "pitching hurt." If he was, someone needs to be fired.

If he GOT hurt, that's different.

Observation was he was pitching hurt. Shaking his arm multiple times between pitches while not hitting his spots. Baldelli actually had to address that question, but blew if off as normal this season for Maeda. From my understanding even Glavine (MLB play-by-play) was noting it as unusual during the game, I guess.

[Dodecahedron]

18 hours ago, Mark G said:

Berrios and Happ gone (traded), Maeda and Pineda hurt, and Shoemaker dumped for making critical remarks.  Not one starting pitcher left from opening day after 124 games.  And no one will pay a price.  What a gig; where does one apply?  

I was looking at the 2011 roster over the weekend.  It struck me how many pitchers the Twins had that year who never pitched in the majors again.  I suspect history is about to repeat itself.