Pollock fractures elbow, to have surgery

[gmabel830]

Rough way to start the season!!!

http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor...diamondbacks-aj-pollock-leaves-game/82543962/

 

[Dback Jon]

Ugh

 

[GatorAZ]

Head first slide into home plate in a meaningless game? Honestly thats not even bad luck.

 

[Matt L]

Socrates, you're up!

 

[BC867]

Pollock didn't re-injure his elbow when he slid into home plate. Rather, after he rolled to the side awkwardly and put pressure on that arm to get up. His immediate reaction showed that he had suffered further injury.

It is interesting that Chip, after putting Brito into CF to replace Pollock, brought Chris Owings into the game in CF and moved Brito to RF. Steve said that Owings had played LF a few times in his career, but never CF.

Ironically, this was shortly after announcing that Segura would be playing 2B unless Ahmed wasn't in at SS, which would leave Owings as the backup to both, in effect. I think we can cover the loss of Pollock at-bat better than we can cover his absence from CF.

It will be interesting to see which hot bats from Spring Training carry over to the regular season, especially Segura and Ahmed. Ironically, Segura was hitless tonight, after hitting .500 or so during Spring Training.

This is going to be interesting.

 

[sundevil04]

So does this mean Brito in CF, Peralta & Tomas at the corners and O'Brien as the 4th OF? Could it mean Drury stays up in the bigs?

 

[BC867]

So does this mean Brito in CF, Peralta & Tomas at the corners and O'Brien as the 4th OF? Could it mean Drury stays up in the bigs?

It looks that way on both counts. Chip had said that the spot Drury was competing for was 25th on the roster.

Unless he feels that Owings could develop into a backup outfielder as well as infielder.

 

[Phrazbit]

Same injury that cost him an entire season while he was in the minors. Sucks.

I gotta think that he has been dealing with a hairline fracture all month and they missed it.

 

[az jam]

So does this mean Brito in CF, Peralta & Tomas at the corners and O'Brien as the 4th OF? Could it mean Drury stays up in the bigs?

This makes the most sense.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Same injury that cost him an entire season while he was in the minors. Sucks.

I gotta think that he has been dealing with a hairline fracture all month and they missed it.

Yep... Such a major bummer as he is such a hugely important catalyst and defensive stud for this team. Brito is gonna have to step up bigtime! [emoji45]

 

[sundevil04]

Any time line on his return?

 

[Dback Jon]

Head first slide into home plate in a meaningless game? Honestly thats not even bad luck.

Yup. Stupidity

 

[Lefty]

Any time line on his return?

I would think the minimum would be 2 months.

 

[frankeegee1]

The article I read said he missed the 2010 season with elbow problems.

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[Azlen]

I got a notification on my phone that his goal was to return this year. That's actually a bit meaningless. Goal or not, he's coming back when his elbow is ready to come back and it's impossible at this point to know when that will be.

 

[splitsecond]

Honestly it doesn't get much stupider than sliding in a spring training game.


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[Phrazbit]

Honestly it doesn't get much stupider than sliding in a spring training game.


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I doubt it mattered. If you look at the play it was pretty benign. There was no collision, it looks like it breaks when he pushes up from the ground after going through the plate. He has had pain in the elbow all-spring, something was wrong with it, my guess would be he had a hairline fracture already. He probably would have hurt it sooner or later.

 

[BC867]

I went to the D-backs final exhibition game vs. KC at Chase Field and Chris Owings was in the starting lineup in CF. He played the whole game there, even though four of our starters came out after their first AB. KC starts play tomorrow and their whole lineup consistent of scrubs. Their starters had already left the Valley.

It makes sense. Owings looked comfortable in CF. And he had just lost his job as starter at 2B, having previously been bumped from his natural position at SS.

So, if he can handle CF, it looks like he has a starting job back until Pollock returns. And, BTW, he had a 3-run HR to get us the 4-2 win. Probably less pressure on him than in quite awhile.

And he batted second in the spot which had been assigned to Pollock for this season. I like this move.

 

[AZ Native]

I doubt it mattered. If you look at the play it was pretty benign. There was no collision, it looks like it breaks when he pushes up from the ground after going through the plate. He has had pain in the elbow all-spring, something was wrong with it, my guess would be he had a hairline fracture already. He probably would have hurt it sooner or later.

I agree.

 

[DWKB]

This wasn't a fluke. It was going to happen at some point.

http://arizonasports.com/story/625230/doctor-aj-pollock-broken-elbow-2010-injury/

On Saturday, Sheridan and Pollock addressed the injury, which was related to the outfielder’s 2010 broken elbow that ended his season.

Pollock missed much of spring training with elbow soreness and x-rays taken then revealed a broken screw and poor healing following the previous surgery. At the time, the team said MRIs and x-rays revealed no long-term issues.

“We actually took an x-ray of it and it kind of shocked me, the screw was broken. It was something I was confident I was going to play with,” Pollock said Saturday. “I guess the bone healing stuff, I know the Doc really wants that to heal. I played six years with it not fused. It’s completely doable. This hardware is a lot more in-depth than the last one I had.”

Following initial x-rays that revealed the broken screw from the past surgery, the team and Pollock decided to allow him to play through the issue, but in his first game back on April 1, he separated the unhealed break again.

“He freshly broke through an area of the bone that had been broken before but never healed,” Sheridan said.

Sheridan added that a broken screw is a result of stressed metal due to the unhealed bone.

“We didn’t really set the plan in motion until last Friday night (after the break) but we’d known this was coming,” Sheridan added. “I had stopped by Salt River Fields (in spring) and shown A.J. what the plates and screws looked like. Given the complex nature of the surgery we all kind of agreed, ‘Look, if you can play the way it is, let’s not do it.’ It seemed like (he) was coming back and doing pretty well. Our hand was forced.”

Sheridan admitted attempting to heal a bone that hasn’t healed before is “very difficult” but he is optimistic.

 

[Phrazbit]

I might not know much about book learning or how to eat in a fancy restaurant, but I do know a bit about orthopedics.

That news does not surprise. That the freaking screw broke somehow... THAT is surprising but had to figure that the bone was gunna go when he was out that long with pain in the joint, then it breaks just pushing off the ground.

That prognosis at the end is pretty dire but if what Pollack said about the screw breaking (prior to the bone breaking again) is accurate then as long as they don't use crap screws again you'd think it would heal better.

 

[DWKB]

I might not know much about book learning or how to eat in a fancy restaurant, but I do know a bit about orthopedics.

That news does not surprise. That the freaking screw broke somehow... THAT is surprising but had to figure that the bone was gunna go when he was out that long with pain in the joint, then it breaks just pushing off the ground.

That prognosis at the end is pretty dire but if what Pollack said about the screw breaking (prior to the bone breaking again) is accurate then as long as they don't use crap screws again you'd think it would heal better.

Did you read about the bone plugs? They said it didn't heal the first time, not didn't heal correctly, but did not heal. The screw broke because of that I healed bone.

That's the story to me going forward. From what I've heard from others there is a good chance Pollock's elbow doesn't allow baseball moves again.

 

[Phrazbit]

Did you read about the bone plugs? They said it didn't heal the first time, not didn't heal correctly, but did not heal. The screw broke because of that I healed bone.

That's the story to me going forward. From what I've heard from others there is a good chance Pollock's elbow doesn't allow baseball moves again.

I caught that but I suspect something was lost in translation. The original injury was 6 years ago, the idea that it would have "not healed" but held together for 6 years does not make much sense... well, it doesn't make any sense, especially when an injury like that with screws in it gets examined over and over to make sure everything is in place and monitor the healing. If it "didn't heal" they would have noticed it in 2010, not 2016. That is why I suspect it healed but not in an ideal form, something wasn't lined up right and something (that screw) started coming undone over the last year or so.

As to it not allowing for baseball moves, I doubt that as well. I could see them saying the risk of re-injury is very high because the bone just won't support the hard wear, but he shouldn't lose mobility. It's not like it got shattered and they're going to have to fuse things.

 

[unseenaz]

I caught that but I suspect something was lost in translation. The original injury was 6 years ago, the idea that it would have "not healed" but held together for 6 years does not make much sense... well, it doesn't make any sense, especially when an injury like that with screws in it gets examined over and over to make sure everything is in place and monitor the healing. If it "didn't heal" they would have noticed it in 2010, not 2016. That is why I suspect it healed but not in an ideal form, something wasn't lined up right and something (that screw) started coming undone over the last year or so.

As to it not allowing for baseball moves, I doubt that as well. I could see them saying the risk of re-injury is very high because the bone just won't support the hard wear, but he shouldn't lose mobility. It's not like it got shattered and they're going to have to fuse things.

Consider reading up on this procedure before you start doubting the possibility of what this injury means. From my friend who has the same screw in his elbow that pollock just got:

In terms of recovery, I'm currently 10 weeks out of surgery and 5 degrees away from full extension and 25 degrees away from full flexion. In addition to bending your elbow, it also messes with the rotation of the wrist, although my doctor said I should regain a full range of motion all around