Looks like David Ortiz is going to miss at least a month with tendon sheath damage in his left wrist. My first reaction was that this sounds strikingly similar to Nomar Garciaparra's 2001 injury, which effectively ended his career as an elite hitter.
My gut feeling is that after unsuccessfully trying to let it heal through rehabilitation, Ortiz has the surgery and misses the rest of the season (and postseason). Wrist injuries are the worst, as there's really no telling if a player will ever be the same afterwards. Nomar never returned to form; Derrek Lee is only starting to hit for power again, two years after his wrist injury.
Which then begs the biggest question for the rest of the 2008 season, a season in which the Red Sox are still a championship contender in spite of injuries to countless superstars--Are there any lefthanded, power bats that the Red Sox could acquire cheaply who could slide into the DH/3 hole and produce elite numbers? You know something? I actually think there might be somebody....
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I really hope Boston doesn't know about any power hitting lefties available on the market. Cause there is one possible guy who last time I saw him at play at Yankee Stadium almost hit it out of the stadium all together. Hopefully they can just go after Jim Thome or something.
Rafael Palmiero????
Late to the party here, but: I don't think the Sox need to deal for a lefty bat. Drew has picked up the slack in Big Papi's absence, and the Sox should be able to score almost as many runs (albeit in a different fashion) and prevent more with Manny at DH & an outfield alignment of Ellsbury-Crisp-Drew.
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