Confirmed: LHP Jeremy Sowers (Indians' top pick in 2004) underwent surgery to repair a torn rotator...

Confirmed: LHP Jeremy Sowers (Indians' top pick in 2004) underwent surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff on Monday. He's out 9-12 months...

Sowers will rehab at home in Virginia instead of w/ team in Ariz. this spring. Spent last season w/ AAA Columbus. Still under club control.

Two separate tweets from Bastian. Sowers' career has somehow found a new, depressing low. His choice to be in VA instead of AZ strikes me as odd. It's probably not useful to read anything into it, though.

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He got the type of rotator cuff surgery that adds 5-7 MPH to your fastball, right?

by JulioBernazard on Feb 11, 2011 2:09 PM EST reply actions

So if he tears it again…

by stuart dean on Feb 11, 2011 6:21 PM EST up reply actions

He’ll melt in that Arizona heat!

by emd2k3 on Feb 11, 2011 2:32 PM EST reply actions

This will give him time to write a book on philosophy. You know you’d read it.

by Toxicadam on Feb 11, 2011 3:13 PM EST reply actions

The injury was apparently sustained in November 2006.

by stuart dean on Feb 11, 2011 3:53 PM EST reply actions 9 recs

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Feb 11, 2011 10:45 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Wtf?

by danmang on Feb 11, 2011 3:57 PM EST reply actions

My thoughts exactly.

The Once and Future King

by FlaGators on Feb 12, 2011 1:09 PM EST up reply actions

We’ll always have 2006 (7-4, 3.57)

by APV on Feb 11, 2011 4:32 PM EST reply actions

If I were in regular season mode, I’d photoshop Sowers over Rick, Anthony Reyes over Ilsa and Ronnie Belliard over Sam the pianist.

by JRontherim on Feb 11, 2011 6:28 PM EST up reply actions

clap.clap.

by JRontherim on Feb 11, 2011 6:25 PM EST reply actions

Actually, right now about the best that can be done is a Zen clap.

"Magic would be getting productivity out of Crowe or Valbuena. I’ll admit we could use a little luck, but that’s not the same thing." - Jay

by woodsmeister on Feb 14, 2011 10:03 AM EST up reply actions

Could this explain the OC signing?

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge..." C. Darwin

by Spidey on Feb 11, 2011 7:14 PM EST via mobile reply actions 3 recs

How so?

"Spring Training wins are good for the soul."

by USSChoo on Feb 11, 2011 9:13 PM EST up reply actions

Sarcasm. It seems to be as good a reason as anything else we’ve heard…

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge..." C. Darwin

by Spidey on Feb 12, 2011 11:50 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

Touche. Very well understated. Good form.

"Spring Training wins are good for the soul."

by USSChoo on Feb 12, 2011 3:21 PM EST up reply actions

I don’t see it as depressing. I see it as good news or irrelevant.

Sowers has been off the 40-man roster for almost a year now, and while he made 22 starts in the majors in 2009, the fact that he did was a sign of our surrender, not of his relevance. His relevance has been somewhere just south of Anthony Reyes (and just north of Tomo Ohka) for a couple years now.

Incidentally, the fact that he’s still technically under club control is irrelevant. He’ll be a minor league free agent in December, after we decline to add him back to the 40-man fresh off his rehab, and after he passes through the Rule 5 draft unselected (again).

There is zero chance that we’ll decide to add him back to the 40-man to avoid his minor league free agency. If he’s back in Columbus next season, it will be because he trusts the organization and feels that we still lack meaningful starting depth.

by Jay on Feb 11, 2011 9:32 PM EST reply actions