I guess durability of a player is not so much an issue with Scioscia when the depth at 1B was so shallow all season and offense was traded away absent except for Trumbo’s bat.

at least we have another excuse!

Trumbo, who has played for about a month and a half with the injury, will not need surgery, but he will probably be placed in a walking boot and will be unable to do any rigorous activity for six weeks. He has already scrapped his plans to play winter ball in Venezuela.

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Trumbo no feel pain!

Stupid as hell but damn, the man must have to custom order his cups for his enormous balls.

And people think baseball players are pansies. If I have a blister on my foot I ain’t doing a damn thing! With a broken foot i’d be worthless.

B.O.S.

 
He must not have told the team doc that it hurt, or the doc would have ordered xrays or an MRI.
 
I applaud the guy’s heart, but really question his brain. We’d all think he was a real “tough guy” if not disclosing the injury to medical personnel resulted in a long-term issue with his foot…right?

Torii Hunter has played both really well and really poorly the last two seasons. And then he reveals that he played poorly while dealing with more than the usual litany of ahces and pains that comes from being a late-30’s ballplayer.

A) He was a rookie who was given a golden opportunity to establish himself as a major league regular. If he sits, and Branyan takes off (or Navarro, or whomever) he might see less playing time when/if he gets healthy. Remember, Trumbo only got his job because the guy in front of him was injured. And, being a rookie, may not have wanted to come across as a whiner. Rookies that speak too much get the Jered Weaver cell phone treatment, or something similar.

B) The foot probably hurt like hell, but that’s what “pain” is. Most athletes try to play through pain at some point or another. All of them. Except Mike Marshall, aka General Soreness. Trumbo most likely genuinely thought the pain would go away in a few days. And although Trumbo’s numbers decreased in September, it wasn’t like they fell off the cliff to Mathisian levels.

C) The team was in a pennant race. All hands on deck. Just ask Kevin Youkilis and Jacoby Ellsbury, circa 2010.

In the end, this is just one of those things. Yeah, it would have been helpful if Trumbo had been more forthright regarding his health. But I don’t blame him for trying to play through it.

I’m tougher than a coffin nail you bastards.

Trumbo is so tough, he’ll eat the boogers out of a dead man’s nose and then ask for seconds.