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Rocco Baldelli - Done?

http://rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=MLB&hl=230614&id=3564

What a shame if he has to walk away from the game. Great makeup, skills, but health was always a question. Maybe this makes sense as to the Why aspect of his injuries.

Hope everything is ok with him.

Always was a favorite of mine.

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certainly looks that way
something like this would indeed explain, or at least go a long way towards explaining, his injury issues. good luck to him. i know people who have had similar things (at least based on what he said) and it is indeed life threatening/life shortening.

by larry on Mar 12, 2008 1:26 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The 8th Skill?
You know, this dovetails a little with something I was thinking about last night, when reading through the 2006 BPB.  (Great fun and highly recommended draft prep, IMO).  Guys like Hermida, Weeks, etc. who just can't seem to stay on the field.

Is there such a thing as the "skill" of staying healthy (or remaining productive while playing hurt)?

by Yakker on Mar 12, 2008 1:33 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

probably not a skill
per se. it's often a genetic thing, though you can certainly "train" yourself to do physical activity in a way that decreases the likelihood of injury - that would be a skill aspect.

in baldelli's case, it looks like it's pretty much genetic, considering mitochondrial cytopathies are diseases that are generally genetic.

by larry on Mar 12, 2008 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Sure
In the truest sense.  However, a few points:

-- Speed is not a per se skill, either.

-- I do think there may be something of a learned ability (i.e. "skill") to performing at less than 100% (or even 85%).

by Yakker on Mar 12, 2008 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Well, I'm sure
That at least in reference to speed being a skill, knowing how to use it is about as important as having it.  Would you praise a player's speed if he's constantly getting caught stealing, picked off, and takes horrible routes to balls?
"...and the only things I've found better than listening to Vin Scully are listening to Keith Jackson and uncut cocaine." (bleedjaxblue)

by drjayphd on Mar 12, 2008 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

mitochondrial diseases
definitely genetic--comes from mother's genes
--http://yankeesfuture.wordpress.com Bobby Mcnally (alias) "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."--Napoleon Hall

by bobbymcnally on Mar 12, 2008 8:19 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Fixed
Would you praise a player's speed if he's constantly [being Alex Sanchez]?

by PaulThomas on Mar 12, 2008 2:36 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

[Beats forehead on table]
SBN 3.0 is coming soon... that's what I tell myself at nights...

by PaulThomas on Mar 12, 2008 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

So sad....
... to see his career possibly end so soon. Hopefully he gets ok and able to play again.

by grozzy on Mar 12, 2008 6:51 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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