No surprise really. When you go to Midas you get a muffler. When you go see a surgeon you get surgery. Hopefully – but unlikely – he’ll be ready for next year’s Spring Training.

I see you’re studying OB/GYN. That’ll difinitely take the romance outta your life for awhile.

It sounds like Hafner should have started the season on the DL. He’s saying that he couldn’t strenghthen his shoulder while he was playing every day (now he is doing it while he is on the DL). What was he doing in the off-season? Is he a lazy bum?

Yeah, that might’ve been APV. I watched that Braves game. Maybe he had a better breaking ball, but I thought his changeup was the best I’ve ever seen him throw in that outing. So if you want to take that as a harbinger of injury, then speculate away. I doubt it was, though.

I would be interested in knowing if he had been having increasing problems with the elbow, or if it’s just something that came up in the White Sox start.

And keep in mind that pitchers often don’t regain full strength until 18 months after TJ surgery. It varies from pitcher to pitcher. I would consider it a bonus if they got anything of value from Westbrook in 2009.

Sheesh For some reason my spell checker changed axillary to auxiliary – but you get the idea.