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Some people can take up to six months to heal

Here's an interesting piece from The Hardball Times that discusses Doumit's injury and season.

Overall, however, 2009 simply stunk for Doumit. His .268 BABIP and .164 ISO were the lowest since 2006 and 2005, respectively. That low BABIP could either signal bad luck or hitting with less authority; that his 17.9 LD% was his lowest since 2006 would point towards the latter. Since it's rare for a guy's power to suddenly vaporize at his age 28, this is most likely wrist-related. To wrap up the anatomy lesson from above, some people can take up to six months to heal completely from a scaphoid fracture, and loss of hand and wrist strength (sometimes permanent) isn't unusual.

His dreadful August surely helped in the free fall, but September suggests he should be back to normal by next year (i.e., a good, injury-prone hitter). What's scary is that only Andrew McCutchen, Garret Jones, and Andy LaRoche had more total bases after the All Star Game. (Lastings Milledge was close.) Methinks the Bucs need more offense to be competitive.


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After the injury all of the reports said not to expect him to be able to hit for any power for the rest of the year. Shortly after his return he had a game against the Brewers where he hit 2 HR and then had another good game where he was hitting line drives all over the place, so I kind of forgot about the reports and was hoping he’d come back big. I still expect him to bounce back in 2010.

by ElDuce on Oct 31, 2009 5:09 PM EDT reply actions  

Yeah, there are way too many examples of guys with wrist problems who take a year or so to get back to their previous status. Derek Lee had that awful broken wrist a few years ago, and it took him a couple years to get his power back. And didn’t Alvarez have the same thing happen to him in college?

by NastyNate82 on Nov 2, 2009 10:45 AM EST reply actions  

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