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June 22, 2007

Under The Knife

Giambi

by Will Carroll

I not only don't understand what's going on with Jason Giambi, I'm more confused by every new fact. I'd really intended to write something here about how I was suprised about his meeting, the rules behind the agreement, or the reaction of players. Instead, everything I've heard comes down to one of two things: either Jason Giambi was scared of something no one else was (Bud Selig's threat of an "indefinite" suspension) or he's making one of the most dramatic mistakes in history. I understand his desire to "come clean" for his mistakes, but everything else...I'm flummoxed. The one thing I'm left with is that the Players Association always manages to somehow get something in each of these recent deals that we didn't expect. I have no idea what that might be this time, but the fact that we don't hear them on this issue makes me wonder.

Miguel Tejada kept his consecutive game streak alive, but he was out quickly, as his wrist is still swollen and painful. He looked as if he shouldn't have been in the game. I don't know if the streak is that valuable except as a point of pride for Tejada, but interim manager Dave Trembley knew better than to end the streak in his first week on the job without a definitive diagnosis. Late word from Baltimore has the injury as a non-displaced fracture of the radius, near the wrist. There's almost no way that Tejada will be able to play through that unless the team is willing to play the kind of game they did Thursday for the next month. The bigger question is if this will have any medium-term or long-term consequences for Tejada's value. That's a lot more important to the Orioles than a streak.

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