San Francisco faces an injury stack as Carlos Beltran is disabled, Chipper has more soreness, Chris Davis’ season is over, A.J. Pierzynski pops his DL cherry, Garrett Richards goes down, Jon Rauch loses his appendix, and more.
The Braves plug holes by promoting from within, the Phillies do just the opposite, the Diamondbacks sign a survivor from the Pirates’ shipwreck, and a Marlin has a mound meltdown.
Al Alburquerque, Justin Smoak, and Jason Marquis come out on the losing end of confrontations with batted balls, while Mike Pelfrey and Brandon McCarthy get off easy, Xavier Nady and Derrek Lee suffer fractures from pitched balls, and Tommy Hanson hits the DL again.
Mike Morse’s elbow gets the worst of a collision with a fastball, Hanley hits the DL again,Zack Cozart gets Tommy John, Alex Cobb is out for the season, and Brennan Boesch is a thumb down.
Can the Tigers make and succeed in the playoffs by virtue of Verlander alone?
Andres Blanco and Placido Polanco battle back issues, Scott Baker and Carlos Carrasco hope they don’t have underlying elbow problems, and the San Francisco cavalry gets hurt as quickly as it arrived.
The Royals summon another important part of their future to the majors in Johnny Giavotella, the Mariners finally fill a festering positional hole, and Kevin Millwood goes mile-high.
Juan Nicasio suffers a fractured neck, Jose Reyes’ hamstring acts up again, Daniel Murphy has another knee issue, Ike Davis appears to be out for the season, Chase Headley fractures a finger, Alex Cobb has hand numbness, and Jair Jurrjens finally hits the DL.
Johan Santana’s comeback hits the skids, Scott Rolen and Dustin Moseley have shoulder surgery, David Freese gets a concussion, and Omar Infante fractures a middle finger.
Frank McCourt’s team is hurt physically almost as much as financially as Rubby is rubbed out, Hanley and Kyle Davies hurt their shoulders, Cliff Pennington can’t close his eye, and Buchholz fights to get back.
Kenley Jansen has cardiac arrhythmia, Nate McLouth gets his ouster in more ways than one, Nick Punto becomes the latest victim of an oblique strain, Clayton Richard is done for the year, and Nelson Cruz deals with another leg injury.
The Rockies send their ace over the river and through the woods to Cleveland.
The A’s make a big time power acquisition in exchange for a groundballing reliever.
The Orioles and Pirates hook up to swap a veteran first baseman for a young first-sacker.
While waiting for Ubaldo Jimenez to take his physical, the Indians decided to spin their backup second baseman to the Bay area.
What we would have said about a deal that fell through.