Hughes Going To See A Doctor
Posted by Steve L. on April 25th, 2011 · Comments (7)
Per Jim Baumbach:
Phil Hughes’ bullpen session did not go well, Joe Girardi said, and he’s headed to see the team doctor.
I would not be surprised if the doc says there’s nothing wrong with you – outside of being a dough boy. But, I could be wrong.
Usually you get a layer of BS when someones struggling. This time, Girardi said they are real concerned…
We’re getting closer and closer to that dream team rotation you mentioned a few weeks ago, featuring Milwood, Silva, Garcia and Colon.
There has got to be something medically wrong with him. Not sure what else it could be for a young guy like him unless his conditioning program really, really sucked.
If he says he has numbness in his arm, one possible cause is a nerve impingement in his shoulder which would also result in “dead arm”.
Since J.R. Richard, if a player says he’s hurting, I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Except for Carl Pavano.
If I had to guess, I would say it’s either a shoulder tear or the lack of conditioning. Doubt it’s an elbow – unless there’s pain there that Hughes is not confessing about, etc.
Could it be something worse? Lupus? A tumor? An aneurysm? Well, I hope not…and suspect, if it was, he would be complaining about more general feelings of not being well, being tired, etc. – rather than offering the “dead arm” thing that he and the Yankees keep repeating.
A lack of conditioning could manifest itself in other ways. Guess we’ll see in a few days.
Phil Hughes had 2 MRIs (shoulder, elbow) and a vascular test. No results yet. More tests tomorrow.
What could be left to test?
Steve Lombardi wrote:
I presume they’ll do a full body physical tomorrow.