MacPhail on Sherrill
Club president Andy MacPhail said during the game that the MRI results on George Sherrill's sore shoulder were "good news." Comparisons with a similar test taken when the O's acquired him from the Seattle Mariners revealed no structural variance.
Sherrill received an anti-inflammatory injection and will not throw for about a week, then begin working toward a return in early September.
MacPhail also denied any second thoughts about his decision not to deal Sherrill before the July 31 deadline for making trades without waivers.
"I don't have any interest in sticking anybody,'' he said.
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Pete,
I hate to beat a dead horse, but I'm apalled that after 4 1/2 years of major league service, Daniel Cabrera still can't finish his wind-up in a position to field his position! In spring training and each off day, coaches should be making him throw a casual pitch and drill him with fungo shots at his feet, body and head until the knucklehead gets it! Its like being able to bunt, those of us who have managed American Legion of local Adult teams would expect as much, why can't these professionals?
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Pete's reply: Sadly, the coaches do just that with Cabrera on occasion, and it obviously hasn't helped much.
Posted by: Keith Rowe | August 19, 2008 8:36 PM
You should Dr. Mike Marshall on your radio show sometime. The same Marshall who pitched 208 innings as a reliever in 1974 in 106 games. (And he said he threw batting practice on days where he didn't pitch the night before.) He contends that these pitchers are using a motion that basically is a variation of the one the first guy who ever threw a baseball had. Marshall said he threw every day and never had any arm or shoulder problems. Yet MLB will not listen to him because they don't understand what he is saying. His stuff is based on science.
Just by reading Marshall's stuff (it's all on the Internet), one can tell that Sherrill will have arm problems. He rotates to the point where the batter sees his back before he comes forward and releases his pitches. BJ Ryan did this and needed Tommy John surgery.
This not throwing for a week will only to muscle atrophy. And Marshall believes that this stuff about baseball pitching is unnatural is bunk.
Remember, it took Dick Fosbury to overcome decades of the previous way to high jump. And it turned out scientists figured out that he had come with the best way. Yet if MLB ran that event, jumpers would still be going feet first.
I'm just a fan who's seen Marshall's stuff on the Internet. It's a shame that all these teams have so many pitchers with arm problems. This is 2008, not 1908.
Posted by: Cal | August 19, 2008 9:37 PM