Put Back Together With Hooks...

Jake Peavy is getting warm and fuzzy Padres retrospectives from sportswriters far and wide tonight. Why should it be any different here? One of my favorite lines cane form the Union-Tribune:

To make it as simple as possible, three surgical hooks now hold the muscle and his pitching future in place.

Hooks. Hooks holding muscle together...

I'd like to take this moment to thank Arizona D-Backs General Manager Kevin Towers for his timely trade of Jake Peavy in 2009.

Jake Peavy Detached His What?

When the trade deadline passed in July of 2009 and Jake Peavy had been moved to the White Sox for four pitchers I knew little about, I made the following remark:

Jake has an ailment of some sort each year and I'd hate to see a guy commanding 25% of the payroll spending time on the DL. 4 for 1---Two quality left handers.

Most Padres fans would have said the same about Jake's rate of injury so I am no prophet. Fast forward to July of 2010.

Jake Peavy is likely done with a detached Latissimus dorsi. I said yesterday, that in all of my years watching and playing sports I had never heard of a human detaching their Latisimus dorsi. I mean it's detached... from the bone! Yikes. Think about the times you tear apart a chicken breast from KFC and then go listen to injury expert Will Carrol describe Jake's problem (h/t to 619Sports).

I hope the best for Jake but as a Padres fan I always hope for what's best for me, first and foremost. So thanks to Kevin Towers for dumping Jake's salary and penchant for injuries......detached Lat? Ouch!