Greg Bird to Undergo Ankle Surgery

[mvp 78]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/03/greg-bird-to-undergo-ankle-surgery-2.html

 

The Yankees announced that first baseman Greg Bird will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove a small bone spur from his right ankle. He’ll miss approximately six to eight weeks as a result.

[jacksonianmarch]

Better than last yr. this is a spur, so it’s more removal of debris than repair or removal of a functional bone. Either way, the more they enter the joint, the more scarring and stiffening he ends up with. He’s a wild card going forward. Neil Walker’s signing looks even better now.

[bkzwhitestrican]

If Bird comes back healthy after 6-8 weeks I'd look to trade him. As talented as he is, you can't count on the guy to play a whole season.

[Carpin]

Boomer

 

good thing we have Walker to play first, also Billy McKinney and Tyler Austin

[jacksonianmarch]

You can’t deal him. He’s got insane power with a brittle body. Hopefully this is the end of the foot issues, but spurs develop due to trauma and removing that os trigonum likely led to this. My hope is, this should be pretty minimally invasive and he can recover well for the middle of the season.

 

We are built for this, though. Austin can play 1b well and he was as good if not better of a prospect. Austin was also limited by injury early in his career too. He’s healthy now and maybe he wrests this away from Bird, who knows.