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MLB Moving Closer to Protective Headgear for Pitchers

Posted by Scott Lewis under Brandon McCarthy, News And Notes on Mar 28, 2013

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Major League Baseball is working to find suitable protective headgear for pitchers, but they’re not ready to approve any of the products that have been test thus far. MLB senior vice president Dan Halem told ESPN’s Outside the Lines that there will be no cap lining or padded caps ready for Opening Day.

“If I had a product that passed [high-speed impact] tests, it’d be out there tomorrow,” Halem said. More on brain buckets, via Outside The Lines:

MLB commissioned tests on two padded cap prototypes from EvoShield and received test data on two others from Unequal Technologies, according to Halem. But the results, Halem said, showed none of the four products from the two protective sports gear manufacturers were sufficiently effective against baseballs traveling at velocities that can exceed 100 mph.

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Brandon McCarthy Joins Diamondbacks, Offers Uncertainty

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Arizona Diamondbacks, Brandon McCarthy, Trades And Signings on Dec 07, 2012

Everybody loves Brandon McCarthy. He’s great on twitter and understands and/or embraces advanced statistics and seems like an all-around swell dude. He just signed a two-year, $15 Mil deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks and every team blogger is super bummed, as 28 other teams wished their team will brought McCarthy into the fold.

After a horrific injury cut his season short in 2012, Brandon McCarthy represents a good cheap buy for an opportunistic GM like Kevin Towers in Arizona. Considering McCarthy pitched to a 2.86 FIP in 2011, signing him for the same dollars and years as Joe Blanton looks like a major bargain. Except for one, unavoidable thing: he is a huge risk for any team.

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Brandon McCarthy’s Scar After Surgery

Posted by Darren Kritzer under Brandon McCarthy, HardBall Talkin', Oakland Athletics on Sep 13, 2012

Oakland Athletics pitcher Brandon McCarthy was released from hospital on Tuesday, less than a week after getting hit in the head by a line drive in a game against the Los Angeles Angels. McCarthy suffered a epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture on the play and underwent two hours of surgery.

McCarty’s wife shared this photo on twitter, showing the scar left after surgery. McCarthy is expected to make a full recovery and plans to return to baseball once he regains full strength.

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Brandon McCarthy is Out of Hospital

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Brandon McCarthy, HardBall Talkin' on Sep 11, 2012

 

…and it is a glorious thing. While his immediate future as a pitcher is unknown his ability to quip on Twitter remains unmatched.

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Getting Quoted: The Quote Is Not a Smithy

Posted by Jake Goldsbie under Bobby Valentine, Brandon McCarthy, Getting Quoted, Lance Berkman on Sep 07, 2012

"...And I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time."

With pennant races getting more and more intense, it seems like baseball people are getting stingier with their quotes. It’s like they’re focusing on winning or something. What’s up with that?

That aside, this week we have terrifying things happening to Brandon McCarthy, sad things happening to Lance Berkman and hilarious things happening to Bobby Valentine because obviously.

What an embarrassing thing to say. If I were there right now, I’d punch you right in the mouth. Ha, ha. How’s that sound? Sound like I checked out? What an embarrassing thing. Why would somebody even, that’s stuff that a comic strip person would write. If someone’s here, watching me go out at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, working with the young players, watching me put in the right relief pitchers to get a win, putting on a hit-and-run when it was necessary, talking to the guys after the game in the food room – how could someone in real life say that?

How could someone in real life say that, Bobby? How could they? By the way, the headline to this article, on the front page of FOX Sports, was “Bobby V. Defends Threat To Punch Host,” which is  just, really, it’s just the best thing. Headline aside, this is awesome. It’s just a fantastic quote (as disastrous as the Sox season has been, Valentine has been on point for quotes all season). It’s the “ha, ha” that really sells it for me. Just great stuff.

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URL Weaver: The Real Life At A Baseball Game Edition

Posted by Dustin Parkes under Brandon McCarthy, Link Dump on Sep 07, 2012

Baseball is a relatively safe sport. Despite the hurling of a spherical object at ungodly velocities and the carrying of wooden clubs, there’s only a small amount of physical contact between athletes on the field of play. However, the danger of something going wrong amidst an athletic competition will always exist.

This hasn’t been more recently evident than on Wednesday afternoon, when Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Brandon McCarthy was struck in the side of the head by a line drive off the bat of Erick Aybar of the Los Angeles Angels.

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The Getting Blanked Show #79: Home of the Barves

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Bobby Valentine, Brandon McCarthy, Manny Machado, The Getting Blanked Show on Sep 06, 2012

Craig Kimbrel is so much better at his job than we are at ours, we dedicate the beginning of our show to his amazingness. Then we discuss Bobby V’s antics, the scary Brandon McCarthy liner and Shelby Miller’s debut.

Then, somehow, we talk with Manny Machado of the Baltimore Oriole. He’s very young but very patient. Well, relatively.

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