6-5 now as Tanaka has been asking for this all day. Lets keep avoiding the obvious when it comes to Tanaka. Should've had the surgery.
You can't tell me he's just going to be able to keep pitching through it with that arm. You have to be very concerned.
Man. Just got home to see this! Correa & Altuve back to back....lead gone. Altuve, all 5'6" of mighty power. That ball park is a boom box.
And people have the nerve to bitch about Yankee stadium. Altuve reached out for one and it flew over the wall. That being said Tanaka was getting hit hard before that.
Yankees had the lucky horseshoe up their butts again. Offense is scoring, pitching is snoring, can't keep giving up runs in heaps and gobs after getting leads. I don't know what is up with Tank but the "Braintrust" needs to find that man what he needs to succeed.
I totally agree with your take Vic. IMHO, Tanaka should of been flat out told, you must undergo TJ surgery or go back to Japan..... I for one, have had numerous Ligament tears, shoulders, elbows, knees, etc. to sit and wait a year for those tears to heal, is fkn ridiculous, they don't repair themselves properly at all, not without a good Surgeon...... why they call tears, Strains is also fkn ridiculous, a tear is a fkn tear, be it partial or full, either way, they don't mend proper without the knife...... I can't help but think Tanaka's camp is screwing the Yanx big time, by milking out his arm probs. Keep it up, and I'd release his ass.......
From what I have read there's so little blood flow that they simply just don't heel. I simply don't believe three doctors told him not to have surgery when every other pitcher goes under the knife. Christ Matt Harvey had it done for crying out loud. This screams of Tanaka's decision overriding common sense. While the surgery is a risk and offers no guarantee the amount of TJ surgeries kind of tells me it's the way to go.
The more I see Tanaka the more I see that he's just not the same pitcher the Yankees signed. Despite what he & Girardi are saying there HAS to be something wrong.
He should have just had the surgery when it happened because his pitches aren't fooling anybody & he obviously doesn't have the command that he showed during his first few months.
