A-Rod to get surgery, out six-to-nine weeks
ByAfter a few consultations and a weekend of pondering the future, the Yankees and A-Rod announced that the Yanks’ third baseman will undergo hip surgery on Monday to correct a torn labrum. A-Rod will be out six-to-nine weeks and will need more invasive surgery after the season is over.
Joe Lapoint has more:
The procedure will correct a torn labrum and will address some of the underlying bone irregularity in the hip, Dr. Marc Philippon said in a conference call, but Rodriguez will probably need more extensive surgery after the season.
Under the best-case scenario, that would mean that Rodriguez could return to the Yankees by early May and miss about a month of the six-month season.
The option chosen on Sunday is the middle alternative that was discussed over the weekend by Rodriguez, the team and the doctor. At first, the Yankees and Rodriguez hoped he could start the season following the draining last week of a cyst caused by a torn labrum.
But that option quickly was dismissed. The most aggressive correction would have been to undergo more extensive surgery to correct the underlying cause of the problem, but that likely would have kept Rodriguez idle for 12 to 16 weeks, Dr. Philippon said.
This hybrid option — what one source called “using a nail instead of a steel girder” to fix A-Rod’s balky hip — came to light last night. From that point on, it was all but inevitable that A-Rod and the Yanks would choose this option. It allows the Yanks to get A-Rod at or near full strength for five months of the season, and while they have big shoes to fill for April, they have the pitching to weather this storm.
In the end, the original ESPN Deportes report, pegging A-Rod’s DL stint at ten weeks, ended up being on the mark after all. Get ready for far too much of Cody Ransom.
It looks like Arod first home game in the new stadium will either be against the angels at the end of april…or May 4th vs BOSTON!! Only arod would have a story like that
also it looks like the ESPN Deportes initial report was accurate that arod will have surgery and miss about 10 weeks.
Those crazy Spanish speaking bastards were RIGHT! This calls my rampant xenophobia into question… I’ll have to reevaluate my whole life.
What REALLY bugs me is the woman who wrote that story was giving birth on US soil as she smuggled cocaine concealed in condoms up her ass.
For some reason this is all making me think of the Jennifer Lopez South Park episode.
AFKAT Steve, can you shoot me an email, I need to ask you something. Im at mmandel@jd11.law.harvard.edu.
Uh oh. I must be in trouble for some reason. I just know it.
I don’t know how to say this, so I’m just going to say it.
You’re the baby’s father.
But . . . . I don’t know how to say this . . . . . ummm . . . . lets just say she was fluent in foreign languages.
Nah, he just wanted his fancy Harvard email out there for every spambot to capture.
Yup, that was it. How did you figure it out? I would have gotten away with it too, if not for that pesky dog.
That’s what ya mother told me last night, Trebek.
Be careful Steve, hes a lawyer.
(Sigh)
You’re Welcome, America.
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Very nice. Now how about something for the ladies?
For the ladies
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Might of had a little too much fun with this. Just a little bit.
Ladies:
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At least one of you knows what women like. Although there’s nothing wrong with this either:
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There’s not a woman alive that doesn’t find this dead sexy:
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Don’t ever link a picture of Kruk…especially after what he said last night.
Yankees should sign Pedro to be their 5th starter because………you know the rest……and “Joba in the starting rotation DOES THE YANKEES NO GOOD”.
Ugh, Kruk.
After watching Pedro yesterday, I’d advocate for signing him but so that the Yanks have pitching depth and not the ability to move Joba anywhere. He looked as good as Pedro’s looked in a long time yesterday.
Ya, but that’s not what Kruk said. He said that and then he said how he asked Joba what his role was and Joba said well I want to start, but they haven’t told me yet….Really? I think that is a bit of a white lie, Cashman has said Joba is the 5th starter and I don’t know where Kruk got that from. They brought up the “What should Joba’s role be?” segment after talking about A-Rod’s injury. Kruk has to mention it every show, hard to take.
Ben, you really think Pedro can give you more than 5 innings a start anymore? You’d rather have Pedro be our starter depth option if one of our top 5 goes down, over Aceves, Hughes, or Kennedy?
Sign Pedro….for the 8th inning
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You’re the best, Pat. You always take it over the top.
I have to think UWS was expecting that answer much earlier in the discussion.
Milbarge: “For god’s sake, man, show some balls!”
Fitz-Hume: “I think it’s a little late to try and impress them…”
This thread is a trainwreck of epic proportions.
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27 comments, two about A-Rod and the other 25 are either racist or sexist.
It’s like attending a game at Fenway.
I blame ARod.
I blame Mr. Glass
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It’s official, the Yankees are a better team without A-Rod.
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Hopefully this hybrid actually does work, this probably just signals Ransom as 3B for a month
Oof sorry Ben, figured the thread had gone awry and its early sunday afternoon the update would be Ok. My apologies.
So Grudz’ll be in pinstripes before Friday right?
Nope, Teahen.
Eh, I’d rather not give anything up for a stop-gap. Unless they plan on having him play LF next year.
I think these “experts” who go on the radio or TV without ever examining Alex and offer a different opinion should STFU.