Joey Devine to start on the DL
Posted By Jeff Fletcher on March 31, 2009 10:54 am
The A’s co-closer is going to visit Dr. James Andrews next week, starting the season on the disabled list.
This can’t be too shocking, since Devine has had elbow problems for years, including missing two months last season and two weeks already this spring. He said he didn’t feel right at any point during Monday’s outing, which was the last straw.
“I could only get to 80 percent because there is a barrier in there,” he said. “Something was grabbing me and not allowing me to pitch at 100 percent.”
PURE SPECULATION ALERT: I’m guessing Devine is going to end up having surgery, since he said he’s had this problem for a while and nothing has made it go away. At a minimum, it seems like this is the kind of thing that the doctors might want to do a ‘scope and see what’s in there.
Hey Jeff,
When you talk about surgery, is there any speculation that they are talking about something as serious as Tommy John surgery??
By the way, really enjoying your blog. Keep up the good work!
I can’t speculate as to what type of surgery it would be, or even that it would be surgery. I was only saying that because it seems that generally when someone is unsuccessful in repeated attempts at rehabbing that surgery is normally the next step.