You just can’t predict when these things will happen to young pitchers.

Unless they play for the Yankees.

The team HOPES?  How about you just get the inevitable TJ surgery over with?

Not that I am advocating surgery when not necessary but how many times have the Yankees gone down this road and it turned out surgery was inevitable anyway?  At some point don’t they need to get better doctors who have a better track record of correctly making these calls or is it just the players going against medical advice?

[1] If they play for the Yankees the injury will occur at the most inopportune time.

Yeah, with a young pitcher like this, why not just go with the surgery as soon as possible? Isn’t it better in the long run for everyone? The Yankees get a healthy pitcher sooner than they would otherwise and the pitcher gets a little bit more certainity, not having to worry if the next pitch is going to be the pitch that’ll lead to surgery.

[2] Typically the Yankees send the players to see Dr. Andrews before deciding on surgery.  Just like pretty much every other team in baseball.  So…I think we like to complain about the Yankee doctors, but they use a lot of the same doctors that other teams use.

[4] Really?

[5] - Then Dr. Andrews must be a Red Sox fan giving them bad advice.

But fair enough.  However the Yankees doctors still deserve blame for Feliciano and Pineda.

Three B’s now debris. TSBG to be amputee, Pineda recovery no guarantee. GOAT out with a knee. Former MVP can’t hit off tee, Andy soon a retiree. Cano and Grandy require rupees, Ichi and McGehee provide minimal glee. Need marquee spree ASAP…Melky+Greinke under Xmas tree? Hopefully!

You don’t realize how much trouble this team is really in until you rhyme about it.

I wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it goes…