Pujols Out For Season with Knee Surgery

[totdprods]

WELP.

#FreeWalsh

[m0nkey]

You beat me but I put in a tweet

[totdprods]

Just now, m0nkey said:

You beat me but I put in a tweet

I put a hashtag.

[bloodbrother]

Good to see Albert make it through another season healthy.

[Taylor]

Wait, what? I didn't even know he was injured*.

 

 

*specific injury, since he's chronically injured

[Taylor]

Also, in before Ohtani still doesn't start against LHP.

[GrittyVeterans]

If this doesn’t make him consider retirement, then he’s playing out the rest of his contract for sure. But he’s narcissistic enough to think that him “gritting it out” is helping the team.

Guys body just can’t do it anymore

[Taylor]

1 minute ago, GrittyVeterans said:

If this doesn’t make him consider retirement, then he’s playing out the rest of his contract for sure. But he’s narcissistic enough to think that him “gritting it out” is helping the team.

Why would it make him consider retirement? Recovery time for arthroscopic knee surgery is 4 to 6 weeks. It's not like it's that major of a surgery. 

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, GrittyVeterans said:

If this doesn’t make him consider retirement, then he’s playing out the rest of his contract for sure. But he’s narcissistic enough to think that him “gritting it out” is helping the team.

Guys body just can’t do it anymore

We'll just be treated to the usual "best shape of his life," "pain-free for the first time in years," etc shit that they trot out every spring.

[bloodbrother]

Albert will be ready to go and will no doubt not have any lower body injuries next season for sure. Next year is the year!

[GrittyVeterans]

3 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Why would it make him consider retirement? Recovery time for arthroscopic knee surgery is 4 to 6 weeks. It's not like it's that major of a surgery. 

Because it’s another piece of evidence in a long list that shows that he is never ever going to be fully healthy again. At some point you have to hope he’s going to see that and want to negotiate a buyout so he doesn’t have to put himself through it. But probably not with him. There is no coming back healthy next year, his base that used to be powerful is now completely destroyed. I actually really think a lot of the decline is simply health related and nothing more. I get why he doesn’t want to give up the money but the Angels need to sit down with him and discuss the constant injuries and what it means for him over the next 3 years. When you hear Sosh saying for the 2nd straight year he was in pain the whole season, you have to wonder what the point even is

 

[Angelsjunky]

If anything this makes it more likely that he'll be saying stupid shit about how he's going to have his best season in years and expecting a full-time gig.

But I'm glad that this means we'll see more Ohtani, Fernandez, and Walsh.

[mulwin444]

Albert has almost 90 million reasons over the next three seasons to show up to spring training the best shape of his life

[Angelsjunky]

#bringbackvalbuena

[JoJo26]

27 Million for a below .250 hitter. HEY ALBERT! Play one more season (so you can play in St. Louis...where they ACTUALLY LIKE YOU)....then hang them up. In fact....tell Arte you'll take $10 million next season...free up some dough to sign Bryce... 

[DMVol]

Going to be a real problem going forward, finding AB’s for Ohtani at DH next year...Pujols just not able to do much but DH....

[Troll Daddy]

In before that dog dude says ‘season over’

[Broad Street]

Season over 2 months ago.

[Docwaukee]

Wow.  I shocked that this coincidentally happened a couple days before Sept. callups.  

If this means more time for Marte then SMH.  

This is roster management people.  

Remember the time Albert had surgery in dec instead of at the end of the season?  Now people want him to have it during the year so he's out longer.  

[Section517]

Big Mike Napoli had a better OPS than Pujols from 2012-2016. 

 

Imagine what hat could have been if Sosh did not trade Napoli and Frosty Tips Rivera for Too Blessed to Be Stressed. Napoli could have the everyday 1B. No need to sign Pujols. No assuming $105 million bad contract of Vernon’s. And a boat load of cash to spend or squander on other free agents at the time. 

[GrittyVeterans]

1 minute ago, Section517 said:

Big Mike Napoli had a better OPS than Pujols from 2012-2016. 

 

Imagine what hat could have been if Sosh did not trade Napoli and Frosty Tips Rivera for Too Blessed to Be Stressed. Napoli could have the everyday 1B. No assuming $105 million bad contract of Vernon’s. And a boat load of cash to spend or squander on other free agents at the time. 

Wells, Pujols, and Hamilton were 3 catastrophes that have haunted us all decade. 

Dipoto and Reagins ignoring the farm system was the icing on the shit cake

[DMVol]

3 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

.....If this means more time for Marte then SMH.  

Would think Fernandez plays 1b against RHP.....

[ten ocho recon scout]

Hoping (naivly) that this is a wake up call for him, and more importantly, the org. 

Replace him this year. If he takes up a roster spot as a bench guy, meh...thats still better than the alternative.

That may sound overboard, being that his injury is pretty common. But its one ingredient in the shit stew. Push the bowl away.

[UndertheHalo]

I like how he’s been “playing through it” like why ? We’ve been 10 + out for more then a month.  He’s not helpful at all doing that.  And if the Angels knew, which apparently they did.  That’s concerning as shit.  That’s Mets dumb. 

im sure he’ll be back in the best shape of his life for the 5000th time this spring. 

Edited August 30, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[Homebrewer]

You gotta respect a guy that plays through pain year after year, just to provide his special kind of thrills to us fans, night after night.