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February 11, 2009 Team Health ReportsPittsburgh Pirates
Head Trainer: Brad Henderson Trend: Positive. Aside from the disasters visited upon Tom Gorzelanny, it was a solid year for Henderson and his staff. Both Matt Capps and Ryan Doumit returned from significant mid-season injuries to produce at high levels; Doumit had his healthiest season in years, and was rewarded with a long-term contract. Ian Snell survived a heavy workload better than most expected. If they can avoid major set-backs for those three players, and if Gorzelanny can turn things around in 2009, the positive trend should continue. The Shape of the Season:
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You mention Doumit's broken hand in his entry. How much weight should we really give to an injury like that? I'd think that injuries like groin pulls, hamstring pulls, or sprained ligaments would be more of a problem in that they tend to repeat themselves, whereas broken bones are more like fluke injuries (unless of course there's a nutrition problem, but I doubt that's the case here).
I guess the same question could be asked about Moss's appendectomy. There's one you really can't repeat!
I could see Doumit's broken hand being repeatable. It's his glove hand, and as a catcher, that hand takes quite a beating.