Series Thread: Rangers welcome YU back vs the Pirates this weekend!

[jta4437]

Well Atlanta may just be a landing spot for Fielder. However, may cost a few prospects to get the money off our hands.

The 30: Atlanta Wants Your Bad Contracts and Your Good Prospects

The 30: Atlanta Wants Your Bad Contracts and Your Good Prospects

1) Freddie Freeman already plays 1B... 2) they have already said they aren't trading him... 3) Why throw good money (prospects) at bad money (Fielder)?

I'd just assume eat his contract than pick up part of the tab AND give someone prospects for the purpose of taking him off our hands

 

[True Rangers Fan]

1) Freddie Freeman already plays 1B... 2) they have already said they aren't trading him... 3) Why throw good money (prospects) at bad money (Fielder)?

I'd just assume eat his contract than pick up part of the tab AND give someone prospects for the purpose of taking him off our hands

"as soon"

 

[jta4437]

"as soon"

Yay, a grammar lesson

 

[Bmurph]

1) Freddie Freeman already plays 1B... 2) they have already said they aren't trading him... 3) Why throw good money (prospects) at bad money (Fielder)?

I'd just assume eat his contract than pick up part of the tab AND give someone prospects for the purpose of taking him off our hands

Maybe Arte Moreno would pay whats left on his contract to keep playing for the Rangers and in return we can send him Josh back?

 

[WastinSomeTime]

1) Freddie Freeman already plays 1B... 2) they have already said they aren't trading him... 3) Why throw good money (prospects) at bad money (Fielder)?

I'd just assume eat his contract than pick up part of the tab AND give someone prospects for the purpose of taking him off our hands

We are going to have to eat his contract so I agree on that point. Can't imagine anyone wanting to pay 24 mill a year for the worst hitter in baseball. A power guy (haha) with 2 HRs. Sarcastic laugh by the way.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

They've done about everything they can to snap him out of it, about the only thing I can say is bat him in front of Beltre and Mazara 3-4-5, that's about the only way he's going to see anything good to hit

I guarantee you no one wants to put him on in front of those guys, so maybe he would see more strikes... but alas I think there's more to it than that

I can understand that logic.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Throwing Profar right into it...

Profar 2B
Desmond CF
Fielder DH
Beltre 3B
Mazara RF
Rua LF
Moreland 1B
Andrus SS
Wilson C

 

[Duane1952]

Profar recalled. Tolly put on family medical emergency list.

 

[saddles]

Profar recalled. Tolly put on family medical emergency list.

After that Tolleson needs to go to AAA and get right.

 

[jta4437]

Throwing Profar right into it...

Profar 2B
Desmond CF
Fielder DH
Beltre 3B
Mazara RF
Rua LF
Moreland 1B
Andrus SS
Wilson C

He'll take a walk, so there's that,not much of a base stealer, but don't recall his baserunning being good or bad

 

[saddles]

I wouldn't be surprised if Profar hits a HR in either his first AB tonight or in a very crucial situation later on.

 

[saddles]

I wonder if Juando will show up.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

I wonder if Juando will show up.

Be shocked if he did. He wants no part of the limelight.

 

[saddles]

We are going to have to eat his contract so I agree on that point. Can't imagine anyone wanting to pay 24 mill a year for the worst hitter in baseball. A power guy (haha) with 2 HRs. Sarcastic laugh by the way.

Yeah, it is too late to get anything for him now. I get the feeling we are going to be saying the same thing about Choo in a year or so. It is always better to trade a year too early than a year too late.

 

[saddles]

Angels pitchers opt for stem-cell therapy

Six years ago, Yoon began treating partial UCL tears with platelet-rich plasma injections, wherein a patient's blood is spun in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets, which contain healing elements that are then injected into the affected area.


Yoon found that PRP worked for about 50 percent of patients. But in that time he also experimented with the use of stem cells from concentrated bone marrow and "noticed that the success rates, anecdotally, were much higher with regards to pitchers going back to throwing, and not having to undergo surgery."

Yoon estimates that he has performed stem-cell procedures on 15 to 20 Major League pitchers and that "less than 50 percent" ultimately needed Tommy John surgery, though he is not allowed to reveal the names of his patients...

Dr. David Crane, who specializes in regenerative therapy for Blue Tail Medical Group in the Midwest, said he has done about 50 of these stem-cell procedures since 2004, the vast majority of them for pitchers in high school and college. About five were Major Leaguers, and Crane said only one wound up needing Tommy John surgery. He claims to have a 90-percent success rate overall, but he is also picky with the patients he chooses.


Said Crane: "If it's a partial tear, and they still have the healing potential, and the stem cells from bone marrow are good, it's a useful tool."

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Sorry to hear this about his dad.

 

[Bmurph]

Angels pitchers opt for stem-cell therapy

Six years ago, Yoon began treating partial UCL tears with platelet-rich plasma injections, wherein a patient's blood is spun in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets, which contain healing elements that are then injected into the affected area.


Yoon found that PRP worked for about 50 percent of patients. But in that time he also experimented with the use of stem cells from concentrated bone marrow and "noticed that the success rates, anecdotally, were much higher with regards to pitchers going back to throwing, and not having to undergo surgery."

Yoon estimates that he has performed stem-cell procedures on 15 to 20 Major League pitchers and that "less than 50 percent" ultimately needed Tommy John surgery, though he is not allowed to reveal the names of his patients...

Dr. David Crane, who specializes in regenerative therapy for Blue Tail Medical Group in the Midwest, said he has done about 50 of these stem-cell procedures since 2004, the vast majority of them for pitchers in high school and college. About five were Major Leaguers, and Crane said only one wound up needing Tommy John surgery. He claims to have a 90-percent success rate overall, but he is also picky with the patients he chooses.


Said Crane: "If it's a partial tear, and they still have the healing potential, and the stem cells from bone marrow are good, it's a useful tool."

I was telling a guy the other day about a friend of mine having rotator cuff surgery and his torn labrum repaired. The guy said he has had the stem cell procedure in his shoulder vs the rotator cuff surgery and he says that it worked well for him. I believe he mentioned that he had to go back and have it done every couple of few years though.

My friend that had the surgery said it was awful on the pain scale and he walked around for a couple weeks with the morphine pump bag and said that just made him feel even worse. Guess it depends on the patient and the extent of their injury as to whom it would work for, which is why Crane is picky. Not sure my buddy could have gone the stem cell route as his was all kinds of jacked up

 

[Bmurph]

Sorry to hear this about his dad.

YES, AS ALWAYS F CANCER!