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Brandon McCarthy To DL With Stress Fracture In Right Scapula

Posted on June 8th, 2009 4:47pm by Evan Grant
Filed under Injury report, Texas Rangers

Brandon McCarthy has a stress fracture in his right scapula, a similar injury to the one that knocked him out for a month in the second half of the 2007 season. After he struggled against New York last week, McCarthy complained of the sore shoulder. An MRI on Monday revealed the stress fracture. McCarthy is going to be out a while. GM Jon Daniels said it would probably be “several weeks” before McCarthy picks up a ball.

If RHP Doug Mathis is not needed out of the bullpen tonight, he will start on Tuesday. If the Rangers do need to use Mathis tonight, RHP Guillermo Moscoso would be the likely callup. Moscoso has been scratched from his scheduled start at Triple-A Oklahoma City tonight as a precaution. RHP Tommy Hunter is currently scheduled to pitch for Oklahoma City tomorrow and could also be an option.

9 Comments to “Brandon McCarthy To DL With Stress Fracture In Right Scapula”

Chris @ June 8th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

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UCK!!!! @ June 8th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

Well, that sucks…

Kris Benson’s sorry Ranger career lives another day I suppose.
Dr Pepper presents Batface McGee @ June 8th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

Question EG. Now that 60% of our rotation has spent time on the DL, is it time to start questioning the thought process behind pushing our pitchers to throw more innings, live BP in the Spring, longer bullpen sessions between starts, etc….
Dr Pepper presents Batface McGee @ June 8th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Not to mention Frankie’s trouble started right after he pitched 3 straight days with the 3rd not even a save situation. Just seems like we have a ton of shoulder issues already.
walrus @ June 8th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

If you think back to last year at this time, after the starting rotation and the bullpen put up about 2 weeks of really good numbers in May, the same thing happened. Starters were hurt right and left, and it only got worse from there. That was without an emphasis on longer games and pitching BP in spring training.

Now that didn’t affect Frankie, but it did put Millwood, Padilla, McCarthy, and almost everyone else that was a starter on the DL with the addition of C.J., who was the closer at the time.

So that makes it hard to tie this rash of injuries, which although it is early yet, still pales in comparison to what the pitching staff went through last year.
JustSaying @ June 8th, 2009 at 6:54 pm

seems like benson or jennings should be in line for the next start??????????????????
TD @ June 8th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

The “injury prone” players are all injured.
scooper @ June 8th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

McCarthy’s stress fracture concerns me because he has had the injury before. Is it a coincidence that it happens again shortly after he starts throwing his curve again? If not the curve, then it is probably an issue with his mechanics. Either way, we have no way of knowing what kind of pitcher he will be when he “fixes” whatever is wrong.
becca @ June 8th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

but harry’s coming back. wouldn’t he just pick up his place in the rotation? or am i missing something.

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