Jeff Passan

uh, bundle of muscle in the pitching arm.

And it can be really, really tricky to try and figure out how to get it back to health.

And the fact that it happened in his first rehab outing after he had experienced drastically diminished velocity, um, you know, they're, they're shutting them down for what, um,

three weeks, a month, something like that.

Yeah, I was going to say, even best case scenario, we're not looking at him back until July.

Because if he's down for the next three weeks, let's say he picks the ball up, starts throwing again, it's going to take quite a buildup to get him back out on the field.

And then when he's out on the field, he's probably going to need at least a few weeks of rehab outings before they bring him back to the big leagues.

So,

I would say, I'm not trying to be pessimistic here, but all-star break at best.

Maybe he goes out, you know, the month off doesn't good.

But if you are bad, then you get shut down.

Then in your first outing back, you got to shut down again.

That tends not to bode well for the long-term prospects.

I guess, but I feel like at this point, the prices that you would have to pay for those types of pitchers are so high, and this team has not clearly distinguished itself at this point as a playoff team yet.

that I think that would be a little bit preemptive.

Especially, like, if you have a farm system and that farm system... And look, Kendrick Churio is going to be really good, I think.

David Shields looks like he's going to be quite good as well.

Blake Mitchell is, like, the most interesting prospect in the minor leagues.

Just, I...

Blake Mitchell is the three true outcomes king of the mind.