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4:30 p.m.: This is no laughing matter, despite the jokes that will inevitably fly after news of this breaks. It turns out that Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre injured his testicle last night after a groundball took a bad hop and hit him in the groin area. No, he does not wear a protective cup.

There was some tearing of the testicle and apparently is some internal bleeding in there. The team is going to wait a bit to see whether he requires surgery. If the surgery was to take place, he would need a month's recovery time. If there's no surgery, he'd need about 10 days to two weeks.

Damn, that defense on the left side is going to be severely weakened with Beltre & Wilson out injured.

surgery? scary...

The Seattle Times is reporting that Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre might miss the rest of the season after taking a grounder to his groin in Wednesday's game against the White Sox.

Beltre is out indefinitely with a contusion to his right testicle that might require surgery.

Jack Hannahan started at third base in Thursday's game against the Yankees.

Ai ya. Nasty injury.

You have to question durability issues with both these guys going forward. Wilson has had his share of down time and Beltre seems to be getting hurt a lot lately. I also have to question that 30 year old number after his name, not buying that at all.

I'd resign Bedard before I'd resign Beltre. It's time to give someone else a shot at the position. I mean come on, 5 home runs. At least when Bedard is playing he's up to snuff. Which, of course, isn't saying much, considering he's always injured.

Bulltalk wrote:I'd resign Bedard before I'd resign Beltre. It's time to give someone else a shot at the position. I mean come on, 5 home runs. At least when Bedard is playing he's up to snuff. Which, of course, isn't saying much, considering he's always injured.

How about we sign neither. I'd take Bedard's money and sign a Jason Marquis and i'd move Lopez to 3rd and play Ackley at 2nd but that's just me, what do i know?

I can understand why some injuries raise durability concerns, but not the one Beltre just suffered.

This injury has nothing to do with durability.

jumanji wrote:

Bulltalk wrote:I'd resign Bedard before I'd resign Beltre. It's time to give someone else a shot at the position. I mean come on, 5 home runs. At least when Bedard is playing he's up to snuff. Which, of course, isn't saying much, considering he's always injured.

How about we sign neither. I'd take Bedard's money and sign a Jason Marquis and i'd move Lopez to 3rd and play Ackley at 2nd but that's just me, what do i know?

Meh. Look at this Yankees series at home without Washburn and Bedard, and without Felix setting up in the rotation. Unless we're just lucky out of the blue, I feel we have little chance to win any single game.

Do we want that for next year? Don't we want/need at least two pitchers in our starting rotation who at least give you the feeling that you have a decent chance of beating a very good team? It will be Felix next year, and a big drop off to everybody else, unless we're really surprised by someone.

Sure, Bedard is a big risk. But who the hell is really out there in FAcy who has the potential to be that strong 2nd pitcher in the rotation? I don't see it. With Bedard you at least have a reasonable chance that he could be so.

Bulltalk wrote:

jumanji wrote:

Bulltalk wrote:I'd resign Bedard before I'd resign Beltre. It's time to give someone else a shot at the position. I mean come on, 5 home runs. At least when Bedard is playing he's up to snuff. Which, of course, isn't saying much, considering he's always injured.

How about we sign neither. I'd take Bedard's money and sign a Jason Marquis and i'd move Lopez to 3rd and play Ackley at 2nd but that's just me, what do i know?

Meh. Look at this Yankees series at home without Washburn and Bedard, and without Felix setting up in the rotation. Unless we're just lucky out of the blue, I feel we have little chance to win any single game.

Do we want that for next year? Don't we want/need at least two pitchers in our starting rotation who at least give you the feeling that you have a decent chance of beating a very good team? It will be Felix next year, and a big drop off to everybody else, unless we're really surprised by someone.

Sure, Bedard is a big risk. But who the hell is really out there in FAcy who has the potential to be that strong 2nd pitcher in the rotation? I don't see it. With Bedard you at least have a reasonable chance that he could be so.

In a perfect world i would agree with you but how many 4 or 5 inning stints can they put up with and how many trips to the DL? Find someone in FA that may not be quite as talented but more durable(that would be the easy part).

jumanji wrote:

In a perfect world i would agree with you but how many 4 or 5 inning stints can they put up with and how many trips to the DL? Find someone in FA that may not be quite as talented but more durable(that would be the easy part).

Two things have happened which have me leaning in this direction. For the first time I actually heard Bedard speak about what's transpired. I actually heard him say how bad and helpless he felt at his inability to contribute the way he wanted to. I've never heard this from him in all this time.

Second, the surgery showed that he had a torn labrum, that something real WAS wrong with him, and that it's been surgically corrected. He wasn't BSing.

Just MO on the matter.