“Opening Day and here’s Bobby Parnell’s first pitch … aaaaaaaaaaand the season’s over.”
Bobby Parnell has a partial tear of the MCL in his throwing elbow. Officially he will rest for two weeks, receive platelet rich plasma (probably some that Bartolo Colon had lying around), and then the Mets will decide whether he will need to be put down surgery.
So did Bobby Parnell feel discomfort during spring training and not say anything until Opening Day? Did the Mets screw up by not doing anything at some point in spring training when it was obvious to everybody else but, seemingly the Mets, that a guy who regularly hits the Cholula meter at 100 was only hitting the mild sauce at 91 during the spring, even near the end in Montreal when it would have been a good idea to see if he can throw at full strength two days before the season? Should Ray Ramirez maybe have been paying attention?
And is anybody frightened at the prospect that a guy that was picked up as filler on a minor league deal is now the closer of the New York Mets? Anybody still want to tell me that there is a “low-risk” factor to this? Because “low-risk” isn’t exactly the first phrase that comes to mind when Jose Valverde comes into a game.
Seems like the same old conversation to me ’round here … the conversation about a damn injury. Remember when Billy Wagner got hurt in 2008 and we had to sit through a rag-tag bullpen of bums for two months? Well get ready for this for a full season. Get your tickets now, friends.
Update: Andy Martino of the Daily News reasons that there is no indisputable evidence to prove that anybody is at fault for Parnell’s injury. In fact, the caption of the photo says “the universe is at fault”. The only reasonable reaction at this point is to fire the universe.
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