Alex White out 8-12 weeks

No surgery, and the doc says it's not really similar to Adam Miller's injury.

It seems doubtful the Indians would throw a rehabbing rookie into an August pennant race, so I'd say we've seen our last Alex White start in Cleveland until September. For those keeping track, the club got 15 IP in exchange for about 100 days of service time. Contention is expensive.

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Service time is overrated. In this case the Tribe got burned because of the injury. Still the right call to bring him up. He was the best pitching option at the time.

by Cols714 on May 22, 2011 1:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

I didn’t (and wouldn’t) say it was the wrong call. I was just pointing out that this is a not-shocking end result, one which ought to factor into everyone’s cost-benefit analysis of when a guy gets called up.

by Jay on May 22, 2011 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions

And the needs of the major league team weighs heavier in the analysis when the team is a playoff contender, as you also imply.

At least he probably won’t burn that option?

Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on May 22, 2011 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions

No, I think he will. But burning the option will spare the service time … just enough. On the one hand, why worry about it anymore? On the other hand, the reason to worry is precisely that he may not ever need to be in the minors again after this August. Getting back to my original point:

It seems doubtful the Indians would throw a rehabbing rookie into an August pennant race, so I’d say we’ve seen our last Alex White start in Cleveland until September.

by Jay on May 23, 2011 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Lonnie Soloff was quoted as saying the only similarity is that both injuries were to the middle finger of the pitching hand.

by Paul Shuey's Groin on May 22, 2011 1:42 PM EDT reply actions

All those 2012 and 2013 sellouts will cover the arb cost.

by YoDaddyWags on May 22, 2011 2:05 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs

He’ll be back in time to go to the pen for the playoffs.

by mcrose on May 22, 2011 2:49 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Hope so.

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by Joe. on May 22, 2011 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions

So depressing.

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by Joe. on May 22, 2011 3:56 PM EDT reply actions

Sometimes I get blisters on my middle finger from bowling. Sometime I sprain my middle finger playing basketball. BFD. If this was 1940, Alex would suck it up and pitch.

My watch is broken... it's stuck on Tribe Time
#suckitLaw

by Turkmenbashi on May 22, 2011 4:26 PM EDT reply actions

oh really? you regularly do damage to the ligament that connects to your bone? On a finger that bears the brunt of extreme torque? I can’t even tell if you’re being sarcastic.

by supersizeme on May 22, 2011 5:25 PM EDT up reply actions

The Turk of 2-3 years ago was way more thoughtful than this.

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by Joe. on May 22, 2011 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions

The Turk of 2-3 years ago was different in a lot of ways. That he was more thoughtful then is not one of them.

My watch is broken... it's stuck on Tribe Time
#suckitLaw

by Turkmenbashi on May 22, 2011 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions

I can’t even tell if you’re being sarcastic.

Really? The “If this was 1940…” should give it away.

My watch is broken... it's stuck on Tribe Time
#suckitLaw

by Turkmenbashi on May 22, 2011 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions

maybe. I guess the line between really, really effective irony, and really, really ineffective irony is thin. And deciphering that line, admittedly, falls on the reader.

by supersizeme on May 22, 2011 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions

If it were 1940, Alex would be in a new line of work by 1942.

by emd2k3 on May 23, 2011 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

by emily522 on May 22, 2011 4:28 PM EDT reply actions

Thank god we are winning, otherwise I would be totally in the dumps over all the injuries the past 3 weeks.

by Toxicadam on May 22, 2011 4:30 PM EDT reply actions

Can I lend him my middle finger? He can give it back after we win the World Series.

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by world dictator on May 22, 2011 4:45 PM EDT reply actions

I’d make the same offer, but I need mine just in case I cross paths with Keith Law.

Trombone/creamy/soda.

by Joel D on May 22, 2011 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions 7 recs

I agree with some others above. Probably the best-case scenario for 2011 is a return to the big-league club in the bullpen. Also, Zach McAllister might be a factor in the second half of this year. I don’t trust Carrasco and Talbot to BOTH be good AND healthy the rest of the year.

by TribeJay on May 22, 2011 9:00 PM EDT reply actions

Also, I don’t know if he or the medical staff will want him to start throwing sliders when he comes back. In the pen, he can go back to two pitches.

Which begs the question – throwing and developing the slider obviously puts different torque on his fingers – they have to be thinking it was no accident it happened throwing that pitch.

by mcrose on May 22, 2011 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s May 22 and we are in first place with the best record in baseball, would it really be that strange if David Huff somehow became a viable major league starter this year?

by The Grimace on May 22, 2011 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions