Treanor to the DL

by craig on Aug 3, 2006 6:36 AM EDT in News and Rumors

The club will be without Matt Treanor's services for a couple of weeks.

Marlins catcher Matt Treanor was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, retroactive to Tuesday, because of a strained left shoulder. It is the same shoulder that required surgery in October to repair a torn labrum.

Treanor last played Monday in Philadelphia but had not taken batting practice and was placed on the DL after undergoing an MRI exam. The Marlins called up catcher Paul Hoover from Triple A Albuquerque (N.M.) to fill Treanor's spot on the roster.

Hoover, 30, was hitting .281 with five home runs and 34 RBI for the Isotopes. He had four hits in 21 at-bats with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2001 and '02.

This is not good.

Maybe the short rest is all Treanor will need to be back in the lineup but shoulders can be complicated. With some luck, we will see him in uniform soon.

If Fishfan has time to chime in, which he probably doesn't, I have no doubt that he knows more about this than I ever will.

I don't know much about Mr.Hoover but hopefully he will do an admirable job while filling in.

In order to make room for Hoover on the roster, Carlos Martinez was put on the 60-day DL.

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willis has more innings, less hits given up, and fewer walks than pedro

The 2006 Florida Marlins: Helping to keep the kids off the street.

by colombo259 on Aug 3, 2006 12:08 PM EDT reply actions

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by c60 on Aug 3, 2006 12:37 PM EDT reply actions

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by Fluxuation on Aug 3, 2006 1:56 PM EDT reply actions

I'm no orthopedic surgeon, but....

Yeah, shoulders suck. They are absolutely the worst joint ever. I used to think knees were dumb (and they are) but the shoulder has no stability, and the tissues that hold it together have very little healing capability.

In a recent lecture, we were told that connective tissues only regain about 80-85% of the preinjury tensile strength. Tensile strength is the ability of a material to resist linear stretch.

Combine an 85% strong soft tissue, at best (which is all that holds a shoulder together - the body part of the joint is about 2cm in diameter max), with a naturally instable joint with too much freedom, mix in repetitive linear stresses, extra instability from the torn labrum, and yeah, you get a "strained shoulder".

Strained shoulder is layman for a screwed up rotator cuff.

A labrum is a fibrocartilagenous ring that goes around the glenoid fossa, adding increased stability to the articulation (aka connection) of the joint. You tear your labrum and the rotator cuff (made up of the four main shoulder muscles) has to compensate but absorbing more of the stress. This leads to a shoulder that is more prone to strains.

With proper medical management it doesn't have to ever become a full tear, but a shoulder does not regain 100% strength as I said.

Hopefully they caught it very conservatively early, and he'll be back soon. Given all the time he spent in the minors in his career, and the fact that Olivo is out-hitting him, I doubt that they caught it early. He will probably be hampered more like 30 days.

I.e. he could be "back" in 15, but he won't be "BACK" in 15.

Here's hoping I'm just a dumb med student and wrong.

Also, Craig, you're right I have no time, but screw it, this is better than derm.

For more info, check out my previous post on shoulder injuries as well as this article on labral tears

Baseball > Med School

by fishfan24 on Aug 3, 2006 5:41 PM EDT reply actions