Blake Perkins Fractured his Leg and is out till at least May. WTH is going on with these practices?

[jesusoftheapes]

Blake Perkins is one of my favorite Brewers.   I truly love watching him play ball ball and think he has so much more to offer this league moving forwards.    Losing him to a Batting practice seems like it should not be possible in 2025 but instead of the game becoming safer in the modern age we hear time and time again that players are being injured in these meaningless moments way more than they ever get hurt in games.       What is going on with live Batting practice these days?  It seems a majority of injuries that teams deal with come in these practices and we can only imagine that playing catch has now become Thunderdome somehow and it simply makes 0 sense.   

Junis was smoked in the head last year and it took the steam out of his Brewers season and his lack of need here got him traded before the 2024 season was done instead of him being a big part of the rotation as was the plan preseason for him here.   

Now it Blake who got injured during these apparently dangerous practices.     He got hit in the shin by a ball off a bat and it fractured his Right leg.        I do not know what the deal is with these practices.   I remember being part of this type of practice and it leaves me thinking there is a way different form of how they do it at the MLB level to bring this many injuries to the stage.    I mean no one gets hurt in games anymore and we hear with lot of players they got major injuries when there's nothing to be putting players bodies on the line going on at those times.      Why are these practices so dangerous in the modern era of baseball?  How can being hit with a ball in the leg cost a young player his opening to his season with no real explanation.  Just another practice casualty who is going to miss every game until May now because of a ball hitting him in the shin.       There has to be a better way to protect players in practices and still get the level of training needed to get ready for the Bigs and the games within.   

 

I watched little Sal smash into a all metal window frame just before the playoffs last season and he never missed a beat and was one of this teams best playoff hitters.   If he can take that and still play through it how can a ball hitting a leg end the spring training Blake needs to be the player he is becoming.    No one needs more work in the batting cages more than Blake and missing this time now is not good for him or his development.   May is a long time to wait to get back to baseball and Blake missing the entire Spring where swings and batting is able to be worked on without consequences.   I expected a big jump in Blakes bat in 2025 and now I fear that jump is going to have to wait and it could cost Blake more than just a few months before the 2025 season .     

With Garrett Mitchell showing up in 2025 with a clean bill of health makes Blake less valuable to the Brewers.  Garrett Mitchell is the real deal and standing on the cusp of legendary output.    If he has no competition at Center field that closes the door on letting Blake develop in the MLB center fields of the regular season.    This is great for Mitchell who is going to light the world on fire this season with health of his own but it cannot be seen as anything but detrimental as far as where Blake fits in now.       

 

Hopefully this 4-5 weeks off his feet will allow him to work on his swing while he rest his shin .   I want nothing but the best for Blake and we need him at his best even with Mitchell in Center playing top end ball.       So get better Blake!   

 

[TURBO]

What do you mean "what is going on in these practices?"  Baseball is going on.

This kind of thing happens all the time, spring training, regular season, and even in the playoffs.

Not sure what your angle is here other than to suggest they don't practice at all?  That is the only thing that can assure their health come opening day. 

"Losing him to a Batting practice seems like it should not be possible in 2025 but instead of the game becoming safer in the modern age we hear time and time again that players are being injured in these meaningless moments way more than they ever get hurt in games."

Got anything to back up a statement like this?

"What is going on with live Batting practice these days?  It seems a majority of injuries that teams deal with come in these practices..."

Again, where does this come from?  majority of team injuries come in batting practice?  

Dude...

 

[jesusoftheapes]

77% (MLB.com) of all MLB injuries take place off the field and in practices.   

So much for trying to be jovile and funny .    I guess there is a major lacking sense of humor in 2025.   Sorry you did not get the the joking nature of the post which was my point and why Thunderdome was included.. Sorry I offended you for bringing it up though.    I was trying to make light of the situation and bring up very real problems MLB baseball is dealing with .  

 

Here are some more stats to support the issues.     Practice injury is up from 1998 in numbers that boggle the mind .     

Most of those injuries happen in practice and not in games.  So making the point is not outside questionability and taking up the issue is in no way offensive but you do you man.  

During the 1998 season, the total cost of paying players on the injured list (IL) and paying replacement players was $136 million for all 30 MLB teams.  by 2015 it had increase to $7.6 BILLION .        In 2025 we are almost at projected  $11 BILLION in replacement players investment after injury.     

 

So yes .. There  is a MASSIVE uptick in injury happening in practices from where it used to be and it is costing teams a lot of money and wins as well as costing players careers.   .   

Gotta ask though .. why does it offend you that someone wants to correct the problem or have a conversation about this honestly? I mean it kinda felt a bit like you are pretending this is not a thing when it is very much a issue in 2025 for all of modern baseball?   

I am just trying to find out what the issue is and why injury in practices have jumped over 5,488% between 1998 and 2015.   Then jumping by that amount again between 2015 and 2025?       That is a real issue.        I don't get why it would make you upset with someone bringing it up though .  Or am I reading your post incorrectly here? I wasn't trying to be offensive and apologize if that is how it sounded.     

[rickh150]

No surprise….and to that affect do we expect our SP to be Peralta, Cortez, Myers, Civale, and Ashby when the season begins?  Ha…I expect at least two of those to be hurt. That is how it was all last year, for whatever reason. And Woodruff not having a setback would be surprising. Plus Yelich.

[wallus]

Who has time to read these novels? 

[pitchleague]

I don’t understand.  OP writes a several paragraph post about the whole injuries in practice and then, when someone calls him out about it being typical throughout all of baseball, the OP brings out the “I guess you guys don’t have any sense of humor” token?

i may not be the prototypical poster here on the site, so maybe this is just me.  But usually when I would want to post a funny take on things, I wouldn’t use six lengthy paragraphs to tell said joke.

 

 

[Oxy]

Baseball has a ton of weird, intense movements.  Our bodies weren't really made to throw a ball 90 mph or swing a stick around the axis of our spine.  It leads to a lot of soft tissue injuries in the core/back/arm.  While this isn't one of those, it's just the way it is.

[Underachiever]

4 hours ago, rickh150 said:

No surprise….and to that affect do we expect our SP to be Peralta, Cortez, Myers, Civale, and Ashby when the season begins?  Ha…I expect at least two of those to be hurt. That is how it was all last year, for whatever reason. And Woodruff not having a setback would be surprising. Plus Yelich.

The move would be to shut woodruff down and have him start opening day. No chance to get injured in practice 

[Simba2020]

I hate responding to such a ridiculous discussion but as a numbers guy, it is warranted. First off, 1998 seems like an aberration on typical injury levels. But ignoring that factor, how one can compare one single season of salary lost to 18 seasons of salary lost and claim some massive increase is beyond comprehension. I would suspect 18 seasons of data would likely be a much bigger number than one, but that's just me. 

Let's look at 2001 versus 2015. The cost of replacing injured players rose 106% from $337M to $695 million. But player salaries rose over 86% in that same time frame. So not much of a difference. I do think teams are much more willing to IL somebody today than in the past as they look to protect their large investments but it's not like it's some massive difference that is being alleged. It's also almost certainly tied to increased TJ surgeries.

Of course what any of this has to do with practice is a whole other matter.

[markedman5]