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#201 · April 10, 2021, 9:11 pm
https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-injury-updates
Like most baseball fans, Conforto noticed when Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. suffered a left shoulder subluxation that sent him to the IL earlier this week.
Conforto understands the injury as well as anyone, having suffered a similar one in the midst of his All-Star season in 2017. Unlike Tatis, Conforto required surgery, which cost him the final month-plus of that season and the first few games of the following campaign. Even after returning, Conforto scuffled until late in the year. He has since worked tirelessly on strengthening his shoulder to prevent similar injuries -- like the one Tatis just suffered -- in the future.
“That was tough to see, especially with such a great young player,” Conforto said. “It was the same shoulder but it was his lead arm. Mine was my top hand, which is a little bit more rare. Those things tend to happen on your follow-through with your bottom hand. … It gives you the flashbacks to those tough days, realizing you’ve got to get surgery and miss time and all that. So that was tough to see. Hopefully he’s doing all right, and hopefully we see him back out on the field really soon.”
#202 · April 16, 2021, 10:23 am
Will Carroll's UTK email today sez ...
Fernando Tatis Jr SS SDP (shoulder subluxation)
Remember about a week ago when everyone was writing obituaries for Fernando Tatis Jr? His shoulder subluxation didn’t kill him, but you wouldn’t have thought so from some of the hot takes. Add in the daggers for the big contract the Padres had just signed their star shortstop to and you’d never think the next sentence would come: Tatis is likely to return this week, with a near-minimum stay on the DL.
The Padres are keeping what they’re doing with Tatis very closely held, with only a few people privy to it, so I won’t pretend I know everything that’s going on. It’s a significant start to a strengthening program as well as trying to formulate a maintenance plan to keep him going after his return. Both of those are works in progress because they’ll have to be adjusted to how Tatis responds. If one thing doesn’t work, they’ll move to the next, narrowing down the treatments and modalities to find the best and most plausible. That’s not an easy task, but it will actually be aided by him going into games.
Tatis’ shoulder is not out of the woods. He escaped significant internal damage, but a recurrence is possible and with that comes the risk of not being so lucky the next time. The downside here is that we see an immediate recurrence with more damage, or that Tatis isn’t able to be maintained and needs surgical intervention to repair any damage and tighten up the shoulder to keep this from being a recurrent problem.
The big worry is a big swing, but I can’t see the Padres telling Tatis to cut it down and become a slappy hitter. That’s not his game and certainly not what they’re paying him for, and remember, he initially hurt the shoulder on a throw, so the swing isn’t the only worry. They’ll likely say don’t swing so hard, dive so much, and so on, but baseball is such an instinctual game that’s hard.
This is a situation where I’d think a team would rush to find an expert and bring in someone, especially someone an injured player had worked with previously, to help with the process and the maintenance. The Padres have $300 million plus in Tatis, but they seem unlikely to spend money to bring in a specialist or even an extra Athletic Trainer to focus on Tatis despite his value and the rest of the team’s needs and injury issues. We’ll see how this goes and should get the early returns on Tatis later this week.
UPDATE: Tatis is expected to be activated on Friday after another batting practice went well. Tatis is feeling no problem with the shoulder on swings and sources tell me he’s not holding back. There’s still no official word that Tatis is planning off-season surgery, but he’s checked in with the usual suspects in terms of surgery. He has to be rostered in all formats and while recurrence risk is there, the reward is still pretty big.
#203 · April 25, 2021, 5:44 pm
Tatis has 7 home runs and 9 RBI.
This is the issue hitting him lead off.
#204 · April 26, 2021, 6:51 am
I assume that the "Thank you, Barry Bloom" tweet (from @madfriars) is about this ...
Since writing about Tatis’ slump he’s 5-for-8 with four homers and five RBIs. Was batting .163. Now batting .235. @Sportico @Padres @Grampskie https://t.co/BWO86acwo7
— Barry M. Bloom (@Boomskie) April 25, 2021
#205 · April 26, 2021, 11:24 am
Quote from MrPadre19 on April 25, 2021, 5:44 pmTatis has 7 home runs and 9 RBI.
This is the issue hitting him lead off.
Yeah... the guy who will lead your team in HR shouldn't lead off... but his speed/catalyst profile just seems to work there, and does increase the chance he'll come up late in games. Hard to change when he's THAT red hot.
I'd like to see him 2nd vs RHP with Grisham leading off; force RHP to pitch to Grisham.
#206 · April 26, 2021, 1:11 pm
9 RBI in 15 games works out to 97 RBI for the season, not bad run production from the lead off spot, especially considering he mostly creates his own runs.
He's just too valuable from ALL aspects of our offense- table setter, disruptor, deep threat, speed threat, etc.- to have him anywhere else.
#207 · May 3, 2021, 7:37 am
#208 · May 24, 2021, 7:35 am
It appears that this guy is pretty good......
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#209 · May 30, 2021, 11:25 am
Stathead Spotlight: Fernando Tatis Jr.
Padres players to hit a game-tying home run in the 9th inning or later with 2 outs and down by 3+ runs
| Date | Batter | Tm | Opp | Score | Inn | Out | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021‑05‑29 | Fernando Tatis Jr. | SDP | @HOU | down 6‑3 | t9 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009‑06‑07 | David Eckstein | SDP | ARI | down 6‑3 | b9 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005‑09‑17 | Khalil Greene | SDP | WSN | down 5‑1 | b9 | 2 | 4 |
| 1991‑04‑11 | Marty Barrett | SDP | SFG | down 9‑6 | b9 | 2 | 3 |
| 1969‑07‑26 | Al Ferrara | SDP | @PIT | down 3‑0 | t9 | 2 | 3 |
#210 · June 4, 2021, 1:00 pm
According to the SD Padres home page, 5 years ago we all went Shields for Tatis??? Is he related to the guy that tagged LAD for two grannies in the same inning?
Well he is, and what an OOOOPPPPSSS!!! by the CWS.