It’s hard, I know, to propose engineering more injuries in the short term, but this is more about prioritizing which kinds are acceptable, and which are not. Article contentĪnd yes, players are bigger and faster now, complicating the problem.īut we’re only talking five years since Brendan Shanahan, currently the NHL’s vice president of player safety, was a 100-plus-per-year penalty minute guy playing a very physical style of game in a set of shoulder pads that look - next to the ones worn nowadays - like something out of an old black-and-white photo of Gordie Howe pulling his equipment on in the 1950s.Īnd yes, concern over concussions in sports is also a relatively recent development, and the scientific study of how they accumulate and how to treat them is still a work in progress.īut even knowing as little as we now know, shouldn’t hockey’s administrators all be asking themselves where the safety of shoulders and elbows ought to rank in importance, next to the welfare of players’ brains? Efforts to come up with a lighter, less lethal shoulder apparatus are moving, but cautiously, and you can just imagine the opposition yet to come from the players if there is any suggestion that lighter equipment might leave them less injury-proof. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.He made slightly below $6.7 million this year, the prorated portion of his salary for a season shortened to 60 games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Hamels, who signed a one-year, $18 million contract in December, pitched just 3 1/3 innings in one start last week at Baltimore. The Braves’ 5-4 series-opening win against the Miami Marlins on Monday night reduced their magic number to three to clinch a third consecutive NL East title with six games left in the season. He is done for 2020, and the Braves are again scrambling to fill out their starting rotation with the postseason set to begin next week.
The 36-year-old left-hander, who was supposed to stabilize their young rotation throughout the season and bring his wealth of postseason experience to bear in the playoffs, instead was returned to the injured list and removed from the Braves’ 40-man pool of player eligible for the postseason. Thus ended one of the most frustrating and fruitless free-agent experiences the Braves have had. An hour after veteran pitcher Cole Hamels did an 11-minute Zoom interview Monday with Braves reporters in which he made no mention of any physical ailment and talked optimistically about the team’s postseason chances with the starting rotation improving, he notified a trainer and general manager Alex Anthopoulos that his shoulder was acting up again and he didn’t think he could make his start Tuesday.
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