i only know about what i personally have had experience in. but on the things i know about like the heel spurs, the yankees make consistently bad decisions in diagnosing and treating problems.

when you hear about cortisone being injected, you pretty much know someone is saying “i have no idea,let’s try cortisone”. one area this blog is weak on is conditioning awareness. the yankee’s organization is given a pass each year until eventually the players play themselves into shape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Ensberg

Or the players could just be stubborn jocks who think the team can’t get by without them in the lineup so they come back to soon.

Seriously, though, given the “tough it out” culture of baseball, it should NOT be left up solely to the individual players to decide when they’re ready enough to start playing after an injury.

If I’m the manager, I would just tack on an extra two days once the player says he’s okay.

in girardi’s defense he is not a medical or conditioning expert. my hunch is that he doesn’t get the best medical and conditioning information to make an informed decision on who plays and who doesn’t simply because there is too big of a knowledge gap between yankees conditioning staff and medical experts like dr.james andrews which is where the problems often end up.

anyone who thinks that the yankees conditioning staff is cutting edge and world class is just not looking at the credentials of the staff. most players get by with what the yankees provide, but there are some injury problems that make you question if the yankees staff knows what it’s doing.

it was laughable watching the yankees last year deal with giambi’s heel spurs. it was absolute amateur hour. they kept treating it like it was a short term problem when anyone who has ever had a heel spur knows that isn’t true.

for those who are going to say the yankees are a first class organization that must have an olympic level conditioning and medical staff, i respectively disagree.

but this is really old news. the players will muddle through it like giambi did last year ultimately using the financial resources they have to take care of the problems themselves.

Thanks for directing me to the YES page. I watched the interview. Loved – LOVED – it. It was the most relaxed player interview I’ve EVER seen. Bar none. I enjoyed his take on their ‘big’ inning.

He looks a lot (almost exactly) like the actor who starred in Rent – the movie and as an original cast member on Broadway, as well as having played Charlie Brown on Broadway. Anthony Rapp is his name. Morgan Ensberg could be Charlie Brown!