Rollins With Grade 2 Calf Strain - MRI Tomorrow, DL After That?

From Jim Salisbury: "Rollins suffered what one person close to him called a Grade 2 strain of his right calf muscle – an injury that usually requires a trip to the disabled list – while completing a final few wind sprints before the first pitch."

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If about.com is a reliable source, they say:

Grade II Strain: This is a moderate strain with more extensive damage to muscle fibers, but the muscle is not completely ruptured. Healing occurs within three to six weeks.

by taco pal on Apr 12, 2010 11:24 PM EDT reply actions

Three weeks without J-Roll might not be so bad. Six weeks… bleah.

by taco pal on Apr 12, 2010 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Hopefully the MRI can determine this. But it’s 3-6 weeks plus a rehab stint either way.

by j reed on Apr 13, 2010 8:26 AM EDT up reply actions

Well there goes the neighborhood, I don’t know how I’m going to handle Castro sitting on Jimmy’s porch.

I now pray that Werth is just calling in sick to spend time cultivating a glorious beard to cover SS while J-Roll is recovering.

Scar tissue is stronger than muscle tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

by JCB79 on Apr 12, 2010 11:44 PM EDT reply actions

I’m nauseous.

by FuquaManuel on Apr 12, 2010 11:54 PM EDT reply actions

that’s it?

by j reed on Apr 13, 2010 8:03 AM EDT up reply actions

I’m not too terrified by this. Think of it this way — Victorino will move to leadoff, where he should be anyway. Chooch should move up to seventh, where he might be more valuable than when he’s 8th. Castro or Valdes will be the worthless eight-hole hitter. The Phillies’ offense can survive this for three or six weeks.

by David S. Cohen on Apr 12, 2010 11:58 PM EDT reply actions

but zOMG the missing intangibles! sweet, sweet intangibles! the unset table, the drink without a straw, a camera with a red light on with nothing to shoot at! O Captain, my Captain!

/Whitman’d.

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 13, 2010 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions

isn’t Cody Ransom as SS too? He did have a great spring for a guy like him that is. I rather see him.

by Ant on Apr 13, 2010 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions

Can’t be worse than Castro.

by Cormican on Apr 13, 2010 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions

I think there’s a perception that Castro is a superior defender at short. While this was true earlier in Castro’s career (both his +/- and UZR from 2003-07 were impressive in limited action), the guy is now almost 38 years old and has clearly lost a step (based on his -6 and -7.8 UZR in 579 innings between 2008-09).

Meanwhile, Ransom is no world beater at short, but his minor league defensive numbers are about average over the course of his career (per Minor League Splits), and his career -5 and -1.4 UZR in 329 innings essentially makes him no worse than Castro with the glove.

So you’ve got two guys who are probably roughly equal defenders at this point — at least based on the various metrics we have to go on — and while Ransom is a career .233/.321/.401 hitter in the majors, Castro is a career .230/.270/.332 hitter in the majors. I don’t know about you guys, but that looks like a no brainer to me.

by PhillyFriar on Apr 13, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Free Bocock.

by Walcott on Apr 14, 2010 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions

The Infamous Beer-N-Bocock March on City Hall circa 1913

by j reed on Apr 14, 2010 5:53 AM EDT up reply actions

Maybe he’s doing a little too much walking.

by yosoysean on Apr 13, 2010 5:50 AM EDT reply actions

I know the joke is there to be made, but geez

don’t encourage him. He did hurt it while “sprinting” after all. “Walking” was doing just fine, :)

Remember the Phitans

by RememberthePhitans on Apr 13, 2010 6:50 AM EDT up reply actions

Now we know

what every other team’s fans have to endure. The Phils have had an incredible run of health the last couple years. If anything, this represents a return to normalcy. Here’s hoping Castro can do his best Tad Iguchi ca. 2007 impression…

by SethC on Apr 13, 2010 6:58 AM EDT reply actions

Everyone says we’ve been lucky health-wise. To some extent yes, but not it’s not like we’ve experienced perfect health. Our BP was a Mash-unit and we lost Myers and Romero last year. Obviously an position player can impact the outcome of a games everday, so in that regard we are lucky. But this is why you spend the extra coinage for a better utility man. Here’s hoping that the ultimate suck bench player gets some Eye of the Tiger …or at least some Sex Panther.

Juan Castro…here’s to you. Can you play to Sex Panther standards: 60% of the time, it works every time

by j reed on Apr 13, 2010 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions

This is why you don’t sign Juan Castro, he of the .230/.270/.332 batting line, to be your primary infield reserve.

by PhillyFriar on Apr 13, 2010 10:33 AM EDT reply actions

The only thing that reduces the pain and this is merely to distract me from the pain iby inducing more pain is shooting myself in the knee cap with my framing nail gun.. What pisses me off is that we have an older team which means our injury risk increases (by what degree I don’t know). It only stands to reason to get quality in this spot….I couldn’t help but taste alittle puke in my mouth when I saw Jamey Carrol in Dodger blue, legging out single. Mind you this is working under the rubric of “we got Castro for his glove work”. Although he aint no spring chicken…funny neither is 36 year old Castro…
Begins to pound head into wall while shooting knee cap with nail gun

by j reed on Apr 13, 2010 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions

now you tell us.

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 13, 2010 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions

dajafi said we shouldn’tna oughtta hadda done it, but we doed it.

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 13, 2010 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions

And so the first Domino in the Wet Luzinski Tiki Curse Rube Goldberg Machine drops.

by Cormican on Apr 13, 2010 11:09 AM EDT reply actions

I bet when returning the tiki to it’s rightful place, the Brady Boys probably talked WL out of this crucial part of the reparations ritual:

The blood sacrifice of this annoying runt

by j reed on Apr 13, 2010 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

wot cur!

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 13, 2010 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Perhaps Jimmy was struck down for his hubris for wanting to hit the longest batted ball ever in the Red Bull event. Remember, J-Roll, you are but a man.

by taco pal on Apr 13, 2010 11:30 AM EDT reply actions

The flight of J Roll

by Cormican on Apr 13, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Jimmy Rollins; or, the Modern Prometheus.

by Trev223 on Apr 13, 2010 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions

I was going for an Icarus reference, but I suppose Prometheus kind of works as well. God (or perhaps I should say Zeus), I hope this doesn’t mean his calf will continue to grow back only to eaten by Juan Castro.

by Cormican on Apr 13, 2010 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions

No, yeah, I liked the Icarus reference. I was pointing towards Frankenstein, but the subtitle of Shelley’s work is a bit obscure.

But Jesus, the image of Juan Castro devouring Rollins’ calf is Goya-esque in its horror. Nice one.

by Trev223 on Apr 13, 2010 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Damn, I knew it sounded familiar, didn’t put 2 and 2 together until seeing this reply.

by Cormican on Apr 14, 2010 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions

On the bright side, I’m pretty sure Jimmy had a hyperbaric chamber at his house when they showed him on MTV Cribs last year. So he’s got that going for him.

by taco pal on Apr 13, 2010 11:32 AM EDT reply actions