I went to bed last night in a so so mood after reading that Johan Santana might miss the whole season. Fine, I will admit it, it bummed me a out. I just woke up ten minutes ago and I started sifting through my twitter feed and found a Santana is fine post by Adam Rubin.
The progress “has been great,” Warthen said. “We’ve been actually sneaking him back a couple of extra feet each time without him really knowing it, but I think he does know it. The arm is working in great position — he’s getting it up. He’s missed a day here and there, but he’s gone back-to-back because he missed [on] his wife’s birthday. We gave him an extra day there. So everything is going right on target, maybe a little bit ahead.
That quote is from Dan Warthen.
But this right here fits more in line with the post I wrote from last night.
Privately, people close to Santana accept he might be a shell of himself in the second half, assuming he returns.
I am crossing my fingers that this isn’t true. I just hope even if he is rusty when he come back this year that he will be fine next year.
Check out Adam Rubin’s full story here.
Update: I know i just posted this thirty seconds ago but Adam Rubin just did another piece where he actually talked to number 57.
I don’t know who’s saying that I’m not ready or whatever,” said Santana, who turned 32 Sunday, “because according to everything, the way it has been done, we’re right on the right track and where we’re supposed to be. Whoever is saying that I’m not ready I think is lying. We are all on the same page here. And I’ve been doing my job and doing my rehab and everything the way it’s supposed to be done. … How can you have a setback at this point, where I’m just beginning to throw? I haven’t even got on the mound. I haven’t even forced my body to try to throw hard. It’s just a slow process and I’m just doing it with caution.
Adam also asked Santana, How could he know if its just regular soreness?
I’ve had pain before. I know the difference between pain and soreness. As of right now, you go through a process where you have to build everything up and your arm, your shoulder is weak. You know you have to overcome that. But it takes tim
You can see the rest of this story here.
That previous story sounded like a bunch of hooey to begin with, the first two paragraphs alone containing an “if” and a “could.”
I never expected too much from Johan this year anyhow. In my professional experience, it usually takes about a year post-surgery for guys to be 100% “right” anyway, even though they return to competition considerably sooner. Granted I’d venture what MLBers do is a lot more drawn-out and intense than what non-elite-types go through, it just usually seems to take those extra few months of live competition or that next offseason for pitchers coming off surgery to get from playing and doing just fine to really being “on.”