Gallardo: torn cartilage, surgery, out 4 weeks (Latest: Conflicting March 10th reports... what to believe? See reply #98)

[Weeks4MVP]

According to Rotoworld:

 

"The Brewers are concerned Yovani Gallardo might have torn cartilage in his right knee.

GM Doug Melvin said Gallardo felt discomfort in the knee after a throwing session a couple of days ago and the knee swelled up afterward. If Gallardo has torn cartilage and needs surgery, he'd require three or four weeks off. That'd put him on the DL for a couple of weeks to begin the season. It wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for the Brewers. They probably don't want him throwing more than 200 innings in the regular season anyway."

 

This is not good news. Hopefully it is just some discomfort and nothing serious.

 

 

(Note: In reply #98, jvrocksaz notes that as of March 10th, there are conflicting reports as to the status of Yo's injury --1992)

[trwi7]

If it's only 3-4 weeks then it's not that bad and thank God it has nothing to do with his arm.

[Weeks4MVP]

Very true...He may miss both Cubs series if it's 3-4 weeks though.

[apirk]

Thank god for SP depth

[trwi7]

Very true...He may miss both Cubs series if it's 3-4 weeks though.

 

How do you figure? If they find out he needs surgery then they'll get it done ASAP. We're still 6 weeks away from opening day. You think he's going to miss until late April early May?

[razzzorsharp]

So it begins...

 

When I saw the title, I was scared about the worst case scenerio (year). 3-4 weeks is not great but with our dpeth, it could be worse.

[crewcrazy]

He must've spent too much time hanging out with Ben Sheets.

 

Seriously, hopefully this is nothing major and he'll be able to avoid surgery. If he does have to miss the first couple weeks, at least the Brewers have the pitching depth to stay afloat.

[splitterpfj]

If there's any doubt at all, scope that knee right now. The last thing they need to do is to have him favoring one side, putting stress on his shoulder - fix it now!

[RyDogg66]

So, one more injury before he is labeled (permanently) as injury prone? Great...

[TauPentaRei]

"Pitchers and catchers report with torn knee cartilage" doesn't have that same nice ring to it.

[crewcrazy]

TH has a blog post on this already: http://blogs.jsonline.com/brewers/archive/2008/02/17/gallardo-might-have-knee-injury.aspx

 

If Gallardo has to have arthroscopic surgery on the knee, Melvin said he'd probably be out of action for two to three weeks. That would leave only three weeks of camp for Gallardo to prepare for the season, which probably would mean he'd start the season on the disabled list.

 

I'm guessing that's where the "missing the first couple weeks" thing comes in -- the Brewers would want to be sure that he gets a "full" Spring Training before throwing him into the rotation.

[MoneyballMan]

If there's any doubt at all, scope that knee right now. The last thing they need to do is to have him favoring one side, putting stress on his shoulder - fix it now!

I agree - get the clock started now on recovery!

[BrewCrewForever]

Not good, but at least its a knee and not his arm and he won't miss to much time. And thank God for the starting pitching depth.

[Brian the Automator]

If it just happened, they have to wait a few days to do an MRI to allow any inflammation to go down.

[molitor fan]

I just asked my wife, who is an MRI Tech, what is the time frame for doing an effective MRI, and she indicated it can be the same day as the injury, with full read-out reliability. There is no need to wait for the swelling to go down.

[Milltownhooker]

Agree with rotoworld. It will be nice to reduce the workload on his arm for the season. Gives Parra a better chance to show if he's a major league quality pitcher. One other thing to remember is during the first month the Crew will not need a 5th starter much. Does make trading Vargas & Cappy harder thou.

[sbrylski]

Exercise extreme caution!

 

Sheets - Suppan - Capuano - Bush - Villanueva to start the season then? Actually, I would not be shocked at all to see Vargas in there for two starts or so, if they want to start Villy in the pen.

[logan82]

My question is where did the keeping Gallardo under 200 innings come from?

[Milltownhooker]

My question is where did the keeping Gallardo under 200 innings come from?

 

Thats a guess by rotoworld. Their line of thinking is the crew would want to protect a young kids arm from burn out.

[logan82]

I wish they would have at least made an educated guess.

[Boy Jeenius]

Just confirmed per TH @ JS- out for 4 weeks. Bummer

[TooLiveBrew]

Well, crap. It couldn't have been his non-plant leg, huh?

[twobrewers]

poop.

[Mr QL]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[bobskube]

The goal is that he is starting for us by April 16th.

 

What is the over/under for that date? I predict he will make his first start April 29th vs the Cubs.

 

PS-By the way, I know we really have no idea what date he will come back, but it makes it fun to speculate.