OT: Tigers closer Joe Nathan out for the season
The Tigers will lose the services of closer Joe Nathan for the remainder of the season, manager Brad Ausmus told reporters Thursday.
Nathan has tears in his ulnar collateral ligament and an elbow flexor tendon and will require surgery, Ausmus said.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2015/04/23/nathan-out-season-tigers/26233533/
EDIT:
Well, that escalated quickly.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
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April 23rd, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
I would really like to see the mods get active about. Open, unadorned, and totally unclever hostility toward players, coaches. . . just degrades the quality of the site. I mean, make a freaking argument, tell us why you think this could actually be helpful, disguise your animosity behind even one clever quip and I am cool with it. But. . . garbage in, garbage all over these days.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^
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April 23rd, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
fuck you. there.
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:17 AM ^
and the circle of life is complete....Enter Simba
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
Are you a troll? How do you have so many negative points, yet are still around?
April 23rd, 2015 at 12:29 PM ^
it is warmer in Bolivia today than Michigan? It is COLD. I never get used to this winter April crap...
no fun.
sorry
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
Because no player in the history of athletics has ever had a rough year and then bounced back the next season....
April 23rd, 2015 at 12:31 PM ^
of his career at 39, elbow surgery at 40, bounce back at 41? Not happening.
April 23rd, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
I was referring to last season coming into this season, prior to this injury. I don't think anyone was expecting him to get back to 50+ saves this season and to throw 98mph, but there was a chance he could come back and be a solid contributor out of the pen.
He wants to be a closer and Soria was a better option even before this injury IMO. It would have been hard for him to adjust to a 7th inning or 8th inning job.
Plus, once he threw Castellanos under the bus after He gave up a walk-off HR and blew off the fans, I was done with him.
I think we can safely stick a fork in his (career's) ass.... he's done.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
I mean, I'm not trying to validate what the other poster said, but Nathan certainly has done is best (or maybe worst...) to alienate the Tigers fan base and become deserving of obscenities thrown his way.
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
PRECIOUS!
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
Wow, you can actually SEE the crazy inside that kid...sorry in advance if this is an MGoBlogger's kid.
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^
else is really sick of found footage movies? It is so Blair Witch, like 20 years ago. That is a gimmick that can go ahead and go away.
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:39 AM ^
A young Dwight Schrute.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
Just as a friendly note from the mods, actual human feelings are encouraged regardless of what you might think of Nathan's performance as a pitcher. Don't be afraid to express at least a modicum of sympathy for someone who has to face season-ending - perhaps even career-ending as Nathan is pushing 40, I believe - surgery. Your expression here is an expression of the sort of fan that no team really needs.
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^
Remember this?
http://www.thedetroitsportssite.com/2014/08/13/video-did-joe-nathan-fli…
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^
Odds that you would have the stones to actually follow through with your boast...
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:25 AM ^
April 23rd, 2015 at 12:16 PM ^
What is your first sentence trying to say?
Does anyone here on MGoBlog know how to translate to English?
/s
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^
I'm not sure what you wrote, but it looks like it was bad. Don't let the door hit you on the way to Bolivia pal!
April 23rd, 2015 at 12:38 PM ^
it's in the title, mods didnt delete that part
April 23rd, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
That seems pretty tame compared to a lot of other posts put up around here.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
That's a real bummer for him, especially at his age. But not really for the Tigers.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
Probably career-ending, or at least ends his career with the Tigers.
pitch for the Tigers again. I suppose he goes out on a high note, having gone 1-for-1 in save opportunities this season (though it was somewhat questionable that he was actually credited with a save in that game AND he got some major help from the ump for strike 3 on a checked-swing by Torii Hunter).
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
Addition by subtraction.?
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:18 AM ^
unless his salary is going too...not so much
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
So Ilitch forks over $10 mil more. I feel so awful for him.
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^
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April 23rd, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
Unless he has a supernatural will, that might be it for Nathan's career. Thanks for the good times, though I doubt many Tigers fans will be distraught over this news. Soria (or trade) uber alles.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
Could be a blessing in disguise for the Tigers.
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
Anyone else a Cubs fan?
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
April 23rd, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
Bewwwwwwwwlerrrrr?
April 23rd, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
So he fired himself as closer before Asmus could?