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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Julian Merryweather, P

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Ted Lilly is Broken

Submitted by Rob G. on

As we know, Ted Lilly was battling through some shoulder issues through 2009 and still delivered a fantastic season with a 3.10 ERA. It didn't seem like it was too serious and something a little offseason rest may take care of, but instead he went under Dr. Yocum's knife.

Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly underwent a left shoulder arthroscopy and debridement on Tuesday by noted orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Lewis Yocum in Los Angeles. During the surgery, Yocum found no major damage to Lilly's shoulder and the procedure consisted of a washout and clean up of the shoulder.

Hopefully Dr. Hecht can chime in later on this post with what the hell all that means, but Lilly will start motion and range exercises almost immediately and go back for an exam after January 1st to figure out a throwing timetable. Let's go to Bruce Miles for the kicker.

They say they're hopeful he can be in the rotation within the month of April.

This rarely ends well for our Cubbies, does it? On the other hand, if you're going to miss a month of baseball as a starter, April is the month to do it as a team can get away with four starters for a good portion of it. In the Cubs case, they don't need a 5th starter until April 19th at New York. But who knows if there will be complications or lingering problems...which is all a convoluted way of me saying the Cubs should probably offer Rich Harden arbitration or load up on some starting pitching depth before spring training.

 

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Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:35 pm

Fuck. Our best starter gone. Likely not for a month either -- if he's back contributing by the ASG, it'll be better than how these things normally turn out. Seems like we've got two choices: A) unload Castro and Vitters and everyone else for Halladay or B) start the rebuilding now. Is that too dire? I vote B.

Submitted by Dr. aaron b on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:53 pm

Hendry better at least offer arbitration to Harden at this point. The worst case scenerio that he accepts it is far less un-appealing right now. Maybe go for a buy low type of rebound guy this offseason. Rich Hill Fausto Carmona for Milton Bradley trade? Jeremy Bonderman for Milton Bradley trade? Ben Sheets

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:01 pm

you know Bradley's not going back to Cleveland...Shapiro isn't going to go through that PR shitstorm even with Wedge gone.

we'll see how Sheets is throwing but I'm all for a 1 yr/$5M deal with incentives if he shows anything, Smoltz is a FA as well although he said he wanted to back to St. Louis...

couple other potential cheap options...

Washburn, Penny, Pedro, Duchscherer, Hampton

more than likely, Sean Marshall gets another shot at it...

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:21 pm

He probably waited a couple weeks to see how it felt, decided it didn't feel great, had to schedule an appointment, have the appointment, discuss it with the Cubs staff and Yocum, schedule surgery, have the surgery, that adds up to about a month. How old is Yocum anyway? Seems like someone should have taken over for him by now.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:24 pm

here we go..

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/david-kaplan-chicago-sports/2009/11/ted…

"At the conclusion of the 2009 season, Cubs team doctors prescribed a conservative approach to managing Ted's shoulder in preparation for the 2010 season and, following a second opinion, Dr. Yocum agreed," Hendry continued.  "At the end of last week, Ted decided that undergoing a surgical procedure was the course of action he wanted to pursue, a decision the club supported.  We're glad the surgery did not reveal any major damage to Ted's shoulder and look forward to his return to our rotation."

so Ted said enough with you quacks....

 

 

Submitted by Paul Noce on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:23 pm

The AP called it "arthroscopy and debridement procedure" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/11/04/cubs.lilly.ap/… Wikipedia's definition of "debridement": Debridement is the medical removal of a patient's dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic (self-digestion), and by maggot therapy, where certain species of live maggots selectively eat only necrotic tissue.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:27 pm

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/david-kaplan-chicago-sports/2009/11/ted…

Hendry joined us soon after Ted was done. One question that came up was whether this would have an effect on whether the Cubs would try to keep Rich Harden. Jim didn't want a whole lot to do with that question.

About all he said was that he has talked with the agents for Harden and reliever John Grabow, whom he'd like to re-sign. "We haven't made any decisions yet on who's coming back or not from the club we ended the season with," Jim said. "This wouldn't alter our plans about adding another starter because Lew Yocum is one of the best in the world. If he felt that...if the rehab went according to plan, the way Ted goes about his business, that there's a good possibility Ted will be pitching in April. We certainly don't want to take that spot away from Ted if he's ready."

nope, carry-on....everything will work out perfectly.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:31 pm

to me...apple's greatest triumph is not getting all bent out of shape about having a low market share compared to "Windows machines" and just working around it rather than trying to trample all over it. they managed to make a market of very loyal people to sell overpriced machinery to. i mean, seriously, they sell VERY expensive hardware...it's not because it's of higher quality, either. Those days are coming to an end now that you can run apple's newer OS's on x86 machines, though. they also were at the forefront, even though not the first, to define the 00's portable music industy, too. adaptable...

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:34 pm

joking aside, there should be plenty of vets and one year stop gaps available anyway if Lilly is behind schedule in March...so no real rush to make sure you get someone, unless they are actually planning to pursue Lackey, which I of course doubt...

Submitted by thescatman on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:36 pm

This seems like a familiar story doesn't it. The Cubs once again will be hoping that one of their top starters will be ready for the beginning of the season. It usually doesn't turn out well. The last time we went through this with Prior and Wood we blew 2 or 3 seasons while we waited. Maybe this time we need to be more proactive so we don't get stuck with a big hole next Spring. www.thescatman.com

Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:42 pm

This whole thread would have been much more on-target with an open and supportive background from Dr. Hecht instead of complete conjecture from every poster. Let the experts "do their thing". That is ther beauty of this blog, imo.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:02 pm

how about we drag out the instances of people who have this surgery in november and see how often they actually come back in april to determine whether the doc's opinion matters at all. then we can blame hendy for his higher-than-normal DTDCBIA% (dudes that don't come back in april percentage).

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:08 pm

or they will in about 12 more outs... guess Hideki earned himself the MVP tonight as he already 2 HR's going into the game...

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