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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am told : Potentially season ending injury for Alex Reyes. Tough tough blown for Cardinals.</p>&mdash; Craig Mish (@CraigMish) <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigMish/status/831560750476955648">February 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Well, **** me was I wrong.

And it begins :deevee::cuss:

Right elbow discomfort, heading for MRI.

How does that happen at this juncture?

The human body is not designed to throw objects overhead repeatedly. Pitcher health is just blind ****ing luck. Well, that and not throwing sliders.

I know. It's just weird this happened at this point in time. Like, before he'd began throwing in ST. I'm sure he's obviously been in an offseason program, just seems like weird timing.

Happened to Wainwright at nearly the same time in 2011. Just try to think of throwing a baseball like playing Press Your Luck blindfolded. Every pitch you're just trying to avoid the damned Whammy, but you have no idea when it's going to pop up.

The ligaments in the elbow are just not designed to do it, nor are the muscles in the shoulder, and I don't know of any training program that can actually prevent it.

Yeah, but i thought Waino had actually began throwing.

In any manner, looks like its time for some TJ and a years rest for our young pitcher.

Good.

Arbitration is stupid anyway but it's hard to say that Wacha had much of an argument to make. He was objectively terribly last season.

As irritating was Matt Adams is, he's at least a lefty with pop who is slightly better than replacement level.

Wacha, OTOH, should've been in AA last year.

As for the Reyes news - I'm hopeful that this gives Rosenthal an actual crack at the rotation.

You could have far worse silver linings.

Over/under on how long it takes to actually have the surgery done? Anyone wanna bet that we prescribe 'rest and rehab' then shut him down for good in August so that he ends up missing 2 seasons instead of one?

My dad just text me the same thing.....

It's unfortunate that the Cards training staff is incredibly inept. If they feel like he may need TJ, they need to do it ASAP. This is the only club I know of that will have a guy sit 80 games with a hamstring, or hip soreness injury.

Well if he's the one that insisted that it isn't even a yellow flag scenario, I feel better about our prognosis already...

Yeah, I've decided that I just conjured that up as I can't find it anywhere on twitter now.