Oswalt Placed on the 15 Day DL

by Stros Bro on Jul 20, 2008 11:30 PM CDT

This is kind of old news(this came out yesterday), but I've been AWOL due to personal stuff(nothing bad, just life getting in the way of bloggin) and have pretty much been out of the loop for a few days. Anyways...

Roy Oswalt underwent an MRI on Saturday morning that confirmed the right-hander is still recovering from a left hip abductor strain he suffered on June 30.
Oswalt was previously scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Saturday afternoon in hopes that he could reenter Houston's rotation on Tuesday. But following the MRI results, he was placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to his one-inning, 17-pitch start on July 11 against the Nationals.

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This basically just shows that the Astros mishandled Roy by letting him make the start on July 11th and now will not be able to use Roy if they wanted to until the 26th(I think). It really isn't a big deal and didn't hurt much(I'm not sure Roy will be ready to come back on the 26th anyways), but who knows when he would have been back if they would have just put him on the DL in the 1st place and let him rest the back instead of having him do the bullpen before the 11th and then start the game on the 11th.

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Let's just hope

they don’t continue to mismanage Roy’s injury. It isn’t worth finishing a few games better this year if it does permanent damage to his career and ruins the Astros future chances.

It takes more than pitching to win a pennant, but not much!

by bwhite2323 on Jul 21, 2008 11:20 AM CDT reply actions

I really cant understand why..

they urge to pull Oswalt back before AS.

If we are in dogfighting at September or October, that kind of move is reasonable. But its only mid-season and Astros was last in NL Central at that moment. Even if we miss playoff by 1 game eventually, the reason we fail would not because Oswalt miss 1 game in mid-season.

They handle this case awful. Because they keep Oswalt in roster, bullpen was short 1 RP for about 1 weeks (Sampson is untauchable 3-4 days before and after he made that start). Cooper always used his bullpen pretty awkwardly, and unfortunately we have extra-inning game at that moment. WE TOTALLY RAN OUT OF PITCHER! I was laughing when Hernandez was hitting hard by Pirates in early innings and the camera kept taking Cooper’s face.

After that we heard Brocial was unavailable…for a while.. Its lucky enough that no more serious hunts in our bullpen corps.

by HubertL on Jul 21, 2008 3:52 PM CDT reply actions

I'm guessing English is not your first language

as for the points you make, I agree 100%. The Stros are in a tough spot and looking like they’re going to finish under .500 and in the bottom half of the Central, but that’s all the more reason to be cautious with their assets. Hopefully Roy can recover from this and it won’t affect his future performance as the Ace of this staff for a few more years.

by littlevisigoth on Jul 21, 2008 4:02 PM CDT up reply actions

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