Matt Capps to Miss Two Months

by Charlie Wilmoth on Jul 2, 2008 11:16 PM EDT

Capps, who blew saves here Monday and Tuesday nights, went to Pittsburgh today for tests, which revealed "internal range of motion detriment," according to manager John Russell.

What is "internal range of motion detriment," and why would that cost Capps two months? Any doctors in the house? This is why it's a drag when Dejan Kovacevic has the day off. Neither the other papers nor the Pirates' website is much more helpful.

Steve Pearce takes Capps' place on the roster, but he may be gone when Phil Dumatrait returns.

Obviously, the loss of Capps is a huge blow to the Pirates, who were already struggling to find enough good arms to fill out their bullpen. He won't be back until early September.

UPDATE: Judging from Dejan Kovacevic's Q+A today, it sounds like this could have been a lot worse.

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Dejan is still

doing the Q and A column this week while Meyer covers the team…so he’ll probably have something on Capps in about 2 hours.

by Thunder on Jul 2, 2008 10:32 PM EDT reply actions

Will Carroll

I caught part of a Will Carroll interview on the postgame show tonight. It sounded like it was the beginnings of a labrum injury and the Pirates caught it early with the tests mentioned in the PG article. Carroll made it sound like a very positive step for the team’s medical staff.

I think they said there will be an article on BP about it tomorrow.

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by MBandi on Jul 2, 2008 11:29 PM EDT reply actions

Turns out

Capps has been hurting since his 3 inning appearance against the Cubs on May 24th.

http://post-gazette.com/pg/08185/894544-63.stm

by Thunder on Jul 3, 2008 12:29 AM EDT reply actions

I'm not pretending to know anything

but I did some Googling when Greg Brown called it “internal rotation deficit” and came up with this: http://www.throwinginjuries.com/gird.htm

The funnest part of that link being “it has been shown that this loss of IR predisposes throwers to shoulder injuries such as labral tears and rotator cuff tears.” Eeeeeek.

by EmmaOMG on Jul 3, 2008 12:32 AM EDT reply actions

80 innings

A reliever getting 90 innings in a year is equal to a starter getting over 200. The number of times relievers get loose and are not brought into the game are repitionions that mount up. A reliever throwing 3 times the number of pitches that is their norm will cause physiological changes.

by buccoben on Jul 3, 2008 2:55 PM EDT reply actions