3/3/2020

2:30 PM

When will this bullshit end… like what the actual fuck man! After his first live BP of the spring yesterday (which was only 15 fucking pitches), Chris Sale said he experienced some elbow soreness and went for an MRI late yesterday. The results of this MRI were sent to the cut happy Dr. James Andrews, who has already had to do a PRP (platelet-rich plasma) injection last August, which shut him down for the remaining six weeks of the regular season.

I honestly don’t want to talk about it; when healthy, he’s arguably the best left-handed pitcher on the planet problem has been him not being on the tit every fifth day. I had a conversation with my dad back in the beginning part of August, and the one question we came to is: “why doesn’t he just get TJ now?” obviously you want to avoid a guy who has a lot of money invested in going under the knife, but why not? The Sox weren’t getting into the postseason last year; he’s entering the first year of his five-year extension this season get the dam elbow fixed, and he gets back to being his dominant self as fast as possible.

If Sale is going to miss significant time, it puts the rotation in a hole that is hard to climb out of. With only Nathan Eovaldi, Eduardo Rodriguez, and Martin Perez(who I’m watching get Texas Leagued to death by the Yankees right now), that’s not the greatest one through three in the rotation. Eovaldi is injured often but looks just gross right now in spring training, Rodriguez is coming off a stellar season and has looked dominate as well in the early parts of the spring, finally Perez well he makes starts every fifth day, so that’s what he’s gonna do.

Final Take:
Sale right now is in a wait and see mode; ultimately, I feel he’s going to need Tommy John surgery, he hasn’t been right since the beginning of August in 2018. As a fan of the Sox, I hate watching Sale not be Sale, and if this incident results in him having to get a surgery to fix the ailing elbow fucking do it. They punted on 2020 when they traded Mookie and Price, they’re not catching the Yanks, or the Rays get the fucking surgery and get him back by June of next year.

2/17/2020

7:01 PM

I’m not entirely sure how one can be healthy and sick at the same time, but Christopher Allen Sale is. On February 11, 2020, Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com and Red Sox beat writer tweeted, “Chris Sale is sick and will start spring slowly as a result. He’s fully healthy, though.” When I first saw this tweet, I thought that this was the most Chris Sale related tweet I have ever seen, especially since he’s coming off back to back injured seasons.

To clear all this up, Chris Sale is healthy from an athletic standpoint, which is honestly one of the only things that matter to Red Sox Nation, Sale also has been diagnosed with pneumonia, so that’s the “sick” part in all of this. Now I’ve never had pneumonia before, but I know multiple people that have, and it affects everyone differently, it also can affect you for a month go away/lay dormant in your body for up to sixish months and then resurface so not ideal for a baseball player who partakes in an occupation that involves 162 games.

Interim manager Ron Roenicke gave an update on Sales battle with pneumonia Saturday:

“He still doesn’t have full strength back,” interim manager Ron Roenicke said

“He played catch today. Stretched it out. He also did that yesterday. So, I think he’s progressing along fine. We’re going to go still a little bit easy with him.” And later in the interview noted his confidence in Sale:

“He’s huge for our starting rotation, and he’s one of the best pitchers in the game,”

As of right now, it looks like it will be a day to day situation that will be magnified to the max, considering he’s supposed to be the opening day starter for the Red Sox for the next five years. Roenicke wouldn’t say if Sale were available for the beginning part of the season. Still, one thing right that can come from this is not being overused in spring training. We have to remember here that he was shut down at the end of the season last year with an elbow injury.

Final Take:

All in all, it’s concerning that Sale has pneumonia, but id be way more concerned if something was wrong with his arm. Yes, the situation isn’t great, and pneumonia isn’t that easy to get over, but I’m in a much better place with him being “healthy sick” than “hurt sick.”