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So Rangers played last night at five point fifty. Do you guys watch
the whole thing? Absolutely? I did too, did you watch it?
I'll watched a good chunk. Did y'all have Fox Sports one that bitch?
Yeah? Yeah, I had the split screen going on my shady uh fire
stick. We're fine, So I was switching between that and LS. You
Uh. I watched the last six minutes of L s U Iowa. I'm
ready later, you're ready. So the Rangers get a three on home run
from Josh Young in the first inning. They're up six to nothing. Dane
Dunning was really good, and then last inning kind of fell apart. But
we'll take six and a third, right now, take six and start six
scoreless from a Rangers starter this early in the season signed me up, especially
coming off the day where John Gray went three and two thirds fantastic six'
three And they're getting through it there and they, you know, tack on
a few more. The end up winning nine to three. But in the
ninth inning, after two guys have already been hit, Josh Young swings at
a pitch that hits him in the wrist, and here is your manager,
Bruce Bochie after the game. Because Bruce Bochie's got cool voice, I'll play
this and here's him breaking the news. Uh, the bad news This is
from Hey j J tim My volume up. Okay, you guys got the
win, but I know it kind of puts a little damper on it with
Josh you on getting hurt. Do you have an update on him at all?
Yeah, bad news with Josh. He's got a fracture wrist and feel
horrible why he's had such tough luck on this end as far as Andrew's and
kind of puts a damper on this one space away he was playing he was
carrying the mail today, he'll be back. Yeah. I talked to him
briefly and you know that. Now this hurts, and you know, I'd
feel pretty kid because he said it he was carrying the mail. I like
that one too. Here carrying the water a lot, he's carrying the mail.
Well, let's go to an actual expert, and you know, because
look, some shows are just going to mail it in. No, not
here, we actually someone who's something. We carry the mail. Yeah,
yes, some shows don't have the connections we have. It's a doctor t
O SORRYL from Inside Sports Medicine. Every Saturday morning here on ninety seven one
the Freak. Hello Doc, what's up? Good morning all? Hi Doc.
This is one of America's most premier and knowledgeable sports doctors joining us right
now, and he has a Saturday show right here on our very station.
So yeah, I think you know what the question is going to be.
We had Josh Young get blasted in the right wrist. Apparently it's broken.
I mean, timetable is obviously the million dollar question. But what do you
think we're looking at? Well, so obviously I've not looked at the X
ray. I'm sure that they already have, and I'm not sure either which
way they're going to go in terms of treatment. But typically typically for this
type of fracture, it's a four to six week recovery. That's typical.
And look, I've been in the sports medicine world now for thirty five years.
As you know, I've spent the better part of three decades taking care
of the Dallas Mavericks, and there's never really a good time for an injury.
But if there is a better time for an injury, I'd rather have
it at the beginning of the season than at the end. Yeah, no
doubt. I feel like baseball is the one where you get a lot of
these hand and hammate bone is that one of the ones in there and liszt
frank in there like let's rank the foot foot Okay, well, I know
baseball you get all his finger and wrist in hand and no one looked terrible.
But honestly, four to six that's I know you haven't seen the x
ray, but that doesn't sound all that bad from how it looks, So
I guess that's good news. Yeah. So this is a relatively common injury
across all sports, in fact, across all life. And the reason it
is is you can feel it on your own wrist. The bone is right
under the skin, so it has no protection. And the particular bone that
I'm sure they're talking about is the all know, and it is literally right
under the skin, and so it is it is susceptible to these kind of
chramatic injuries. If Gronkowski had this injury back when he was playing in the
NFL and in football players you get a helmet or you get stepped on and
the bone breaks. Yeah, I was think the way this is doctor TiO
Sorreel. You can hear Saturday mornings here inside sports Medicine here on ninety seven
one. The freak. It was his right wrist, his throwing risk do
you does it Is it harder to get strength back to hold a bat or
is it harder to you know, throw a baseball again? Yeah, and
that's definitely a consideration we always factor in. Is it the dominant arm or
the non dominant arm. U. Basically, he's gonna have the same kind
of rehab regardless, but I suspect that what's gonna happen is so there are
two ways to go with this. Either if it was me or you,
that will put us in a cast and wait four to six weeks for it
to heal, and then we take we get him out of the cast and
you start to rehab to restore the risk motion and restore the strength. That's
typical for me and you, but for a high end player they might consider
something surgical and and it's not going to shorten the timeline. It's still going
to be four to six weeks. However, if if one is able to
put in a plate and some screws to stabilize the fracture internally, then they
can start to rehab early. And so don't be surprised if this ends up
being something surgical, which shouldn't you know, you hear surgery and that immediately
to the layman creates a sense of alarm, but it shouldn't. You're saying
that that, you know, it could shorten the overall timeline because if you're
looking at four to six, let's say five. If he's a fast healer,
then you're looking at you know, at least maybe another week too,
maybe three to rehab to get the strength back up, to get his timing,
his swing, the comfortability and range of motion and all of that.
So that could you're saying that if they do the plates the screws, he
could start rehabbing, so that could work concurrently with the healing, and him
getting back on the field could be within that four to six weeks then exactly.
Now I'm speculating, okay, And I just had the one video replay
where I saw where the pitch actually impacted his owner, and uh, you
might be able to get away with something surgical and for the exact reason that
you mentioned. The actual healing time is the same. Does it make a
difference on the severity of the fracture, And I'll be an idiot here,
like the different difference between a full break a hairline fracture. I know there's
many different types of bone breaks. Does do any of those different, you
know, speculating on what type it could be, does that matter as far
as the timeline, Absolutely, it matters if if and you use some some
some good terms that we use that we use, uh if. If it
is a crack, it's much simpler to treat than if it's in several pieces.
If it's shattered, and we've all heard the term, oh, he
shattered his whatever whatever, that is much more difficult to treat, and it
does take longer. It doesn't look like this type of injury is going to
be that extreme. Usually, if it's going to be one of those where
it's shattered in multiple pieces, you have to have a lot more trauma,
car accident, that sort of thing. So my death is this is perhaps
going to be a simple fracture. It's actually common enough that it has a
nickname. This type of injury is called a knight stick fracture. And this
comes back from one hundred years ago when you know, police officers instead of
carrying guns, they carried night sticks, those batons, and if the police
officers swinging the baton and you are trying to protect yourself, you put your
arm up and the Baton hits the alma and breaks it. So it's it's
common enough injury that it has the name to it. So there's volumes written
on how to treat this. It's still going to be a four to six
weeker, and as a Rangers fan, I'd rather have it early in the
season than late, doctor t O just because we have you on. I
mean, I didn't think of any of this stuff, but now that we
have you, I figure one. I'd ask let me real quick, Jacob
de Grom Pitcher got a second Tommy John. There's debate and obviously like hope
that the guy's back this season, maybe like real late July August. Do
you have any opinion on that, Like a second Tommy John that would have
that would put him over a year of recovery. Do you think there's a
decent chance that de Gram does return this regular season? Yes, I do
so. Again, it's really funny. On my show Inside Sports Medicine has
been on air, we're now in our twenty third season, and one of
my most memorable interviews, I actually had Tommy John on my show and I
asked him the question because he was an experiment, you know, back in
the day when you tore that elbow ligament, you were done. Your career
is over. And for Tommy John, and I believe he was pitching for
the Dodgers at the time. He was in LA and somebody at the Curland
Joe Klinic, decided, well, let's see if we can fix this thing.
So he was an experiment, and I'll tell you it all went wrong.
I mean, he had an infection, he had nerve injury. It
all went wrong. But ultimately he fields and he is now more famous for
the procedure than for being a twenty game winner. But anyway, I digress.
We've made tremendous progress in the sports medicine world when it comes to elbow
reconstructions and Tommy John surgery, it still takes a long time, especially if
it's a revision, meaning the second time around. Having said all that,
yeah, I do think he'll be back this season. All right, what
a resource. The outcome is much more hopeful for Josh Young fracturing his wrist
than it would have been had he got an arrow through his head. Yes,
that would have been bad coming back from that. I'm not a specialist
than arrow through the head. Yeah, we have specialists for that the rehab
on four six as well, Doctor Teo. Sorryal we really appreciate you jumping
on with us. What a tremendous resource we have here at the Freak,
and we'll be listening Saturday morning. Alrighty seven thirty in the morning on Saturday.
Thank you guys. Yes, sir, doctor Theo, sorry you heard
it. Four to six weeks, Josh, he will be back out there
cranking rod. I mean he he hadn't seen the x ray though, so
so say four to six weeks, experts, how about That's what Bochie said,
But he's not a doctor said for six. I didn't hear Boachi say
four to six. He implied it, I didn't say. He didn't imply
anything. Nobody implies recovery. Can No, he didn't imply nothing. Okay,
Well, I hope you know doctor damn t O sorry, l So
he knows what he's talking about. Unless there's something that's not the ulna and
there's a little more wrist shatter, you know, amongst the thousand bones that
are in that part. If it is just the ulner, that's good news.
I would say this real quick before we because you're gonna move fast.
Rokie Sosaka is his name. He's twenty two, and he is a guy
for Japan for npon right, and the Rangers were one of like a few
clubs that scouted his most recent start because he's gonna post after this year.
He's twenty two years old and nearly three hundred innings. He's got a two
e r A. He has like seven strackouts for every one walk he at
rest. He's awesome. He's the next big name called two Okay, and
and and this is what the USA Today said from one unnamed major League Baseball
general manager. Ready, Rangers fans, are you ready? Everybody in baseball
wants this guy. But there's no way he's going anywhere else but the Dodgers.
We all know it. Twenty two Rokie Sazaka. The Rangers at least
in on him. But this gym says he's going to the Dodgers. Interesting,
I don't like how you delivered that. Do you like to tease?
Yeah? I know? Fact like how if you hang in there? Yeah,
only to find out that he's going to the Dodgers probably, But they
the Rangers going to use that money that they get towards him. Now,
LSU and iwall, we're playing in women's basket yeah before Yeah, yeah,
what are they going to do with third? Oh? Okay, yeah,
so Ezekiel Durant can play a lot of third base. Josh Smith played a
lot of third base. I think they will call up Justin foss who was
a first round pick from them in like twenty eighteen. He is so slow,
but he can mash. They will call him up and he'll probably play
some first base to help you get through that and might be able to play
a little bit of third base. Like this is not different than last year
when Josh Young missed a lot of time. You know, they have between
Ezekiel Duran, Josh Smith, and Justin Foscue, they've got it covered.
It just it's just not as optimum as you can be, especially when Josh
Young He's probably gonna put up better numbers than why at Langford and Evan Carter
you know this year. So those are the things that make you go crap.
He was this is he was about to break out and is he MVP
candidate? Probably not, but forty home run yuah. Maybe he carries the
mail. Carries the mail. I hate how cool Josh Young came off and
that miked up thing. Yeah, three days ago whatever it was. And
then yeah, but man, I hope doctor Storryell's right. Fourty six sounds
manageable. That sounds highly manageable. I was thinking three months to Yeah,
let's not switch to hoops. I have one more baseball thing. Yeah.
Do you guys know who Ronelle Blanco is? Yeah? I do what he
did last night? No, okay, listen to this. He's a pitcher
for the Astros. Right, you're gonna end up saying, all right,
well, that's nice, even if it is a Houston Astro. So he
five days ago, I believe it was, he had a baby with his
wife, right, and he was spent the whole night in the hospital with
her, and then he had to leave because he had to pitch. I
think their last spring training game whatever something like that, one of their last
games, and he pitches, and on the mound when whoever the new manager
is any idea whatever? Bill Bill, Yeah, Mars Bill Storman, Bill
Bill Bushwick. Bill walked out there to take Ronelle Blanco out of the game
the day after his wife had a baby, and on the mound he said,
hey, good pitching. You made the Astros starting rotation. So there's
a cool picture of him walking off the mountain, like smiling and pointing,
like he found out walking off the mound. Incredible story. Right, it's
Joe a spot On by the way. Okay, so he made so it's
not Bushwick Bill. Well they call him Bushwick Bill. He goes out there
and he only had seven previous starts, and he made his major league debut
twenty eight years old, and he pitches a no hitter last night, the
earliest no hitter in MLB history for a season. That's amazing. Yeah,
like, what a what a week? God, first baby finds out on
the mound and he's smiling walking off the mountain, like I made I made
it. You just humanized this guy, Yes I did. And also Bushwick
Bill, he's the first ever MLB manager to get have a win his first
win as a manager being a hitter. Yeah, because I got swept.
Damn amazing. So what they're one in four now, h Yeah, I
think So that was a tough thirty minutes for me last nights. I was
like, okay, so Josh Young just broke his wrist and the Astros just
threw a no hitter. It was not fun. I'm gluy that I got
it back, though I got the feelings back, which I didn't really have
them in that first series gets the covered World Series Champions, and then last
night I was like, once bad Rangers type stuff starts happening again, you
remember who you really are? The Rangers were the champs? Is who I
remember? Where the gd champs with bad stuff happening to us in four games
Qumber three BMF Champions of the World. We'll put it on the race tonight
at five point fifty. We also will have a raised tie in a little
bit later in the show. Danny's got good stuff for you at eight we'll
push that. Uh, we'll push that hoop stuff back to nine point thirty.
But coming up next in the scuttle Butt multiple things, including another smelly
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