Blake Hawksworth To Have Arthroscopic Elbow Surgery, Was He Pitching Hurt?

Chad Moriyama 01/11/2012 8

Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times reports that reliever Blake Hawksworth will have surgery on January 11th.

Dodgers reliever Blake Hawksworth is scheduled to undergo a minor surgical procedure Wednesday to remove scar tissue and shave down a bone spur in his right elbow.

Hawksworth is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks. He should be pitching at some point in spring training and could be on the team’s opening-day roster, according to a team spokesman.

Mike Petriello wondered whether or not he was pitching hurt.

To be frank, I had the same immediate thought.

Upon further review though, it seems to primarily be normalization.

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Basically everything remains the same as far as his peripherals go except his BABIP, which was extraordinarily low in the first half.

Hawksworth is simply not as good as his first half and not as bad as his second half.

Boring but probably true.

8 Comments »

  1. MattKempFTW 01/11/2012 at 3:28 AM -

    Agreed.

    He’s just an average reliever, but even that is more than enough in return for Ryan Theriot.

    • Greg Zakwin 01/11/2012 at 5:53 AM -

      Erin Hawksworth was more than enough return for Theriot.

      :o

      • Wil 01/11/2012 at 11:40 AM -

        Not sure if that’s a fair assessment of Theriot’s value, cuz you’d probably trade a lot of players for Erin Hawksworth, lol

      • Chad Moriyama 01/11/2012 at 12:36 PM -

        You would have traded Matt Kemp for her.

    • Chad Moriyama 01/11/2012 at 12:35 PM -

      Pile of shit would have been fine in that case.

  2. The Dude Abides 01/12/2012 at 8:45 AM -

    I read that he initially felt soreness after starting his off-season throwing program.

    • Chad Moriyama 01/12/2012 at 1:06 PM -

      This year’s program, right? Not last year’s?

      • The Dude Abides 01/12/2012 at 7:20 PM -

        Right, just in the past few weeks.