Mar

Joba: ‘I have no soreness, I have no pain’

Update (1:50pm): Carig reports that the MRI confirmed the oblique strain, but Joba’s well enough that he’ll play some catch as soon as tomorrow. Guess it’s not that bad of a strain.

1:32pm: Via Chad Jennings, Dan Barbarisi & Marc Carig, Joba Chamberlain isn’t feeling any pain in his injured oblique but won’t pitch until at least next week. “I feel fine,” he said. We still haven’t gotten word on the MRI results, but Joba said the team is taking the safe route by holding him off for a week, so I guess that’s a good sign. If it was bad, they probably wouldn’t even have penciled him in for next week.

I do know one thing about oblique problems: if they aren’t given proper time to heal, they can be re-injured very easily. They also hurt like a bitch, you don’t even want to take a deep breath.

Categories : Asides, Injuries

8 Comments»

Monteroisdinero says:

March 16, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Good news. Didn’t want to “retread” Aceves when the Sawx cut him.

Urban says:

March 16, 2011 at 1:39 pm

Did they send these MRI results on a slow boat from China?

They’ll go slowly here because, as you noted, oblique injuries can reoccur easily, and they can also disable a pitchers for long periods of time. It’s only Spring Training. Go easy.

Big Apple says:

March 16, 2011 at 1:55 pm

mabye its just gas…every man needs a release every now and then.