Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting
Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen underwent heart surgery on Tuesday to correct an irregular heartbeat, a procedure we were all aware would occur during the offseason.
Jansen’s heart problems have sidelined him for stretches during the 2011 regular season, Spring Training of 2012, and the 2012 regular season. Ken Gurnick reports that Jansen will now be out for at least three months as he recuperates.
It doesn’t sound like there were any complications, nor were there any indications this could be a lingering problem, so he should be ready to go for Spring Training.
Glad to hear Kenley’s operation went well. This one always worried me the most out of everything going on with the team medically, since it has to do with someone’s heart. Things like Ellis potentially losing his leg make me scratch my head because you’d think with all the people and all the money they pump into a team’s medical staff that things like that could be easily avoided. Heart issues, or even brain issues for that matter, seem like they would be on a completely different level and would require a level of attention that is well outside the norm.
Same, just because it involved his life, not only his livelihood.