Thursday, June 14, 2012
NJ.com: Yankees say Brett Gardner could return within 3-4 weeks
Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner could be back in three to four weeks, the club announced today, after doctors ruled out the possibility of a major injury that could have cost him his season.
Instead, two leading orthopedic surgeons confirmed that Gardner has a strained left elbow, a bone bruise, and joint inflammation, which have not fully healed.
Gardner underwent platelet rich plasma therapy and took a cortisone shot today. Doctors have recommended three to four weeks rest for the outfielder, who has suffered two setbacks in his attempt to return from the injury, which landed him on the disabled list in mid-April.
Given the way that Gardner and the Yankees have been sort of talking around the problem recently, this is certainly good news. Of course, there is still the matter of how the elbow responds in three to four weeks, but for the first time in awhile, there is cause for optimism regarding seeing Brett Gardner in a Yankee uniform this season.
The same article also notes that with David Robertson’s return, David Phelps was sent down to Single-A to build up arm strength in front of a return to to the Triple-A starting rotation. No surprise there.
h/t to keith.
Comments
I could sleep with an Italian supermodel tonight.
Why don’t you?
And you wouldn’t even miss a game!
We, on the other hand, don’t have a game either, so we’ll need a liveblog.
“Yankees say Brett Gardner could retire within 3-4 weeks”
FTFY.
[2] I’m waiting for a confluence of events about as likely to occur as Gardner’s return 3 weeks from today.
There’s a movie here somewhere, with the whimsical title “Brett Gardner’s Elbow,” where dred gets the chance to score with an Italian supermodel, but at the last moment he realizes he’s really in love with the redhead in the next cubicle who’s also a huge Yankee fan, and when she takes her glasses off and lets her hair down she’s BEAUTIFUL. And he proposes to her on the scoreboard at Yankee stadium.
I’m dredding this movie already.
Does the proposal take place on the spot in the outfield where the injury took place and where they thereafter bury the remains of Gardner’s elbow after it dissolves into a pasty mush?
[7] Details. Like how they smoke in space.
Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they’re looking to make.
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?
Jeff Megall: It’s the final frontier, Nick.
Nick Naylor: But wouldn’t they blow up in an all oxygen environment?
Jeff Megall: Probably. But it’s an easy fix. One line of dialogue. ‘Thank God we invented the… you know, whatever device.’
For the movie - yes, details.
For Rilke - the end of days.
Btw: did F-Mart make it through waivers?
“Nick Naylor: But wouldn’t they blow up in an all oxygen environment?”
We’re not allowed to work in environments over something like 23% oxygen instead of the normal 20.9%.
I’m relatively ok with Gardner having a local Wicked Witch of the West event compared to the thought of some commenter here making free with Italian supermodels.
Reuben Rivera is the next Mantle (but he still needs to return Jeter’s glove.)
Ugh, the Pirates suck.
I don’t see the connection to Gardner or Robertson, but I would like to thank you all from turning my attention from Columbian hookers to Italian supermodels.
[13] Yes, but the city’s AAAA franchise is doing yoeman’s work.
True, that was awesome.
[15]
???
[6] This movie sounds great. I love redheads.
When does Ben Sheets report?
Durant is awesome. And he’s 23. Scary good!
James not disappeating this year.
If you give Durant a split second he burns you. He is like a younger, better Ray Allen. Just unguardable.
???
He’s saying that the Mets are doing well for the Yankees by sweeping the Rays.
[23]
Ah, yes. I read that as “Pittsburgh’s AAAA team”, which I didn’t know how to distinguish from a compliment paid to those same Buckos.
I should have said The City’s, then you’d have got it.
Yes.
If the redhead is played by Amanda Righetti I’m in.
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