I’ve been battling knee tendinitis for 2 years now, and I’m an otherwise healthy 21 year old who takes good care of himself. Granted the stresses I put on my body are much different than the ones Heilman is putting on his (80+ miles a week competitive running vs. however much he pitches). That said, his medical team and facilities have got to be about a million times better than what my school provides, but still, it’s not always as easy as just saying “dude needs to take care of himself”. I’m pretty sure he’s spent a significant time over the last X months working on his knee – he’s a professional athlete. He’s not just sitting there wishing his knee would get better. Are you of the opinion that Bedard just needs to sack up and “get over it” as well?

Also, your spelling is atrocious. I know they’re not terribly common words but if you want to people to actually believe you know what you’re talking about you should probably be getting these right. Tendinitis, cortisone, injure, anaesthetic, lidocaine, and manageable. You were 4 for 11 in multi-syllable words. That’s bad. Methinks you don’t know as much about injury rehab as you’d like to think you do… just repeating what your PT says?

That said, I don’t see any way this ever puts him on the DL. It’s a nagging thing. If it’s bothering him we’ll see a couple bad outings followed by 2-5 days rest, bad outing, rest, etc with a couple good outings thrown in there. He might get the “Put on the DL for sucking” treatment at worst, but that’d basically just be a publicity move. Hope he’s spending the winter putting it behind him though.

Everything Z has said has indicated (to me) Morrow will get a fair chance at a starting spot and it sounds like that’s where he wants him. His dealing of JJ to NYM to go be a setup man despite JJ’s wishes to remain a closer also show a willingness to go against players’ wishes for the better of the team. If Bavasi was in charge I’d be much more worried about Heilman relegating Morrow to the bullpen than I am with Z. With Bavasi there would be a much greater chance of a “well he was requesting a trade so he could have a chance at starting, and he’s a tough veteran, so the least we could do is give him a shot and let Morrow close out games for a while” type attitude. I’m optimistic.

for Bavasi signing a bunch of idiots.

JJ is what he was in 2007 and Frod is not what he was in 2008.

They really overpaid for that bullpen.