Aside from that, it must hurt like hell.

As for who to call up… Zduriencik says that he wants to see more from Saunders before electing to calling him up, and given he has all of 295 career PAs in Tacoma coming into tonight (thanks in part to his shoulder injury), that’s understandable. He’s having a good year but not exactly an Adam Jones of 2007 blow-away ‘You must call me up’ sort of year.

I agree with Jay on Redman. He gives you only so much, but he could help the team as a 4th OF and is an option… but basically just that. He’s an option for the starting spot only if you think Wlad can’t hack it, if Griffey’s too much of a defensive liability over his offense to warrant it, if Bryan LaHair isn’t a better option, etc etc. He’s the NFL playoffs 3rd/4th tiebreaker of LF and/or 4th OF options.

For a player whose game is speed-reliant, it’s difficult to fully characterize how much this sucks.

my first thought …

Do you have to blame Yuni for this? It was a crappy accident and I feel awful for Endy but it wasn’t anyone’s fault.

Yes. I talked to a friend with left-field line season tickets and he could hear Endy screaming for the ball. If Yuni was paying any goddamned attention and kept his head out of his bum, he would have been nowhere near there.

Do you have to blame Yuni for this? It was a crappy accident and I feel awful for Endy but it wasn’t anyone’s fault.

There is a protocol. Normally the guy going back on the ball defers to the guy coming in on the ball, assuming he was calling for it. In the replay it certainly looked like Endy was calling for it. He might’ve called late (it’s hard to tell), but hearing that call very close by is all the more reason for Yuni to break off. This wasn’t like the Cameron-Beltran collision where two outfielders were converging horizontally into the gap.

Yes, it was an accident… but it was a preventable accident.

This makes Yuni about -1 win player automatically right?
Endy is a +1 so far through the season so in the rest of the season we could assume Endy would have been worth about 1 more win.

Betancourt by himself just through playing is worth -1.3 wins so far this year, so that puts him over -2.5 for the season as a whole. If you assume Endy would be worth another +1, that’s -3.5 Wins. So Betancourt (assuming he plays out the year) looks to cancel out the combined contribution of Beltre and Griffey for the entire year. If they released him now, the damage he’s already done will likely wipe out Gutierrez’s value for the year.

Seriously, Betancourt might very well have curtailed Endy’s career. There’s a long list of athletes (starting with USSM fav Chris “Doyle” Snelling) who were diminished by ACL injuries and never regained their potential even when they were able to return to the field.