Well this just came out of fucking nowhere didn't it? Just when you thought you were allowed to get excited about the Yankees bringing up a star position player you get punched in the gut. Not that the story of Greg Bird doesn't have plenty more chapters to be written but this SUCKS. This was going to be Bird's opportunity to fine-tune his skills before taking the full-time gig in 2017. Now who knows what's going to happen a year from now. I'm nervous about Bird's future but I don't subscribe to this idea that he's the next Nick Johnson. He had some injury hiccups in the minors but he never underwent anything major. Certainly nothing close to this.
The thing that does scare me is the power. I don't know what kind of player Bird's going to end up becoming. Maybe he'll never hit for average. Maybe he'll never be a plus defender at first. But the one thing that's evident is that the kid has MAJOR Yankee Stadium pop and a tendency to hit home runs in big spots. If having surgery on that right lead shoulder hinders the development of that power it's going to drastically change the kind of player he can become.
PS - How about the Yankee doctors get a fucking clue? First Tex is day-to-day for about two months with a bone bruise that turned about to be a fracture. Now you had Bird basically playing the whole year with a torn labrum and nobody noticed when he complained about it the first time? Tanaka's probably pitching every game with a completely detached UCL.
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