A couple of days ago we got the word that Kevin Millwood “tweaked” (Good Lord, what exactly does that mean) his hamstring, which will cause him to miss his first scheduled start on Friday.
Then this morning, Evan Grant posted the news that Brandon McCarthy is being held back from the exhibition opener tomorrow.
Neither are (officially anyway) being classified as a real problem. They’re saying that Millwood should only miss one start, and that McCarthy could pitch if he had to. I’ve been following this sport enough to know that we rarely get the TRUE meaning of these things. Aside from that hyper technical term of “tweaked”, do we really know – HONESTLY – what the problems are? They very well could be not a big deal.
I’m sure we’ll hear the usual platitudes about how it’s not a big deal, they’re really fine, and the word most often heard with news like this… “precautionary”.
But when I heard the McCarthy news, my first thought was “OK, that’s two. It always comes in threes, so who gets it next”?
Never good to hear this news at ANY time in camp.
Next it will be Jason Jennings with elbow “discomfort”
I wonder if these injuries carry over to the season, it would be interesting to see if Millwood and McCarthy struggle early in the season.
I hope not.