Strasburg lands on DL, again

The news today is that Strasburg is being placed on the DL again, with some talk of potential Tommy John surgery ESPN Link here one is made aware of how fragile pitchers are.  We could start a list of young phenoms who had their career shortened due to injury.  Guys like Brian Taylor, Kerry Wood, Mark Prior, The "4 Aces", the young group of Met pitchers, to start with.  Each of these people were hot commodities in the baseball cards around the time of their debut.  Each of them had some problems along the way and never lived up to their hype.  When it comes to pitchers one must remember the risk of injury is high and not everyone starts out as an ueber stud and stays on that path.  Tom Seaver, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, and Greg Maddox come to mind as examples of pitchers that had success early and maintained it for most of their career (I know that Smoltz got hurt, but it was later on).  These are the exceptions and not the rule.  Heck, Nolan Ryan was full of potential before being traded to the Angels.

Trick or Treat

I opened my mailbox this week to a surprise package from up the road in Arkansas. I could only be one thing, my Trick or Treat gift. Lets see what the master of randomness has in store.

Ty Cobb postcard thingy. Cobb looks like he is crying. Why are you crying Mr. Cobb? Is it because the Tigers choked away a pennant? What did you say? It is something else.


Oh my. Lofton is showing up everywhere.

Don Wert was the primary third baseman on a World Championship team. That makes him an ok player in my book, even though I am to young to have seen him play. No, A-Rod, I still don't like you.

Another Ty Cobb. League Leader from a long time ago. I really loved these cards when they first came out, and still like them today. I just don't think the idea of the Conlon Collection ever took hold.

Eric Munson was going to be the next great catcher of the Tigers. I don't remember what happened, but he did not do well when he made the big leagues. He did hang on for a couple of years (maybe played wiht the Astros?).

Gorkys Hernandez. Ohh, bright and shiny. Very shinny. Mesmorizing shinny.

Andrew Miller Stearling. Another shinny. I hope that Miller gets his delivery straightend out in AFL and ends up having a productive career.