Breaking news: Mets AAA pitcher Boof Bonser is undergoing Tommy John surgery and will miss the remainder of the 2011 season.
Not a huge loss from this blogger’s perspective, since I didn’t think Bonser had much value anyway. This elbow surgery comes almost exactly a year after returning from reconstructive shoulder surgery.
What do you think? Are these injuries just dumb luck or maybe his horrendous mechanics had something to do with it? Some day MLB clubs will factor in the delivery when they evaluate — and train — a pitcher.
Let me throw in here how much I appreciated the point you made in the trade DW comments about how much scouting plays into this. The coming fire sale is going to be pointless if the mets don’t know who to go get… and scouting is yet another area where the wilpons have cut corners over the past few years if I’m not mistaken. This is another reason we need prohkorov… an owner who can actually sink money into the little things rather than signing Jason Bay and calling it a winter
ps- low hanging fruit:
Are you sure the title of this post shouldn’t be “My Bonser is flaccid” ????
ouch
Easy come easy go –
Will you let Boof go……
BOOFmillah!
No – we will not let Boof go!!
LET HIM GO!!
BOOFmillah!
Very fitting for a team that comes from Queens.
Well played, Brad !
Brad Radke’s a genius.
It was quite amusing listening to Cohen bemoan his injury like the team loss a critical piece. If Cohen’s right, this team could challenge for one of the worst in Met history, and that is quite a feat.