Middlebrooks out with broken wrist

per ESPN

Say goodbye to one of the best young hitters of 2012. Took a 96mph heater right off the wrist.

Please give Crawford his TJ surgery and trade Cody Ross for a prospect or two and look toward 2013.

Completely agree but if Ben continues his run on majoring on the minors,he will do nothing of significance.

Nomar never came back form a similar injury.

The difference is I believe Nomar's injury involved a tendon more than a broken bone, no?

Yeah, I think Nomar just kept tearing tendons and muscles and he broke down. I remember reading a lot of rumors that his reliance on steroids is what caused it.

If only Nomar had the hindsight to see what HGH could do for the careers of Clemens, Pettitte, Jeter and Rivera as they approached or passed 40.

Only a dopey Sox fan would throw Rivera and Jeter in with Nomar.........never ends how lame people can be!!!

Nomar was the better player before the wrist.

Agreed I'm just pretty sure one was clean and the other was questionable at best.........both came in as skinny young guys who were good hitters and one go a lot stronger..........but one also lasted and fought smaller injuries because he was clean.....I like the one we still have!! ....you take "he was better before the wrist"!!!

I always get a chuckle out of the sucker Yankees fans who think it's impossible that Jeter and Rivera and Posada, never ever used any type of performance enhancing drugs. Is it because of their aw shuck nice demeanor? Is it their nice haircuts? Is it because they went to church?
Andy Pettitte was all those things and he was a user.

When do you think Nomar started using exactly? In his first two years as a 23 and 24 year old, he was putting up a 875 and 946 OPS respectively. So in other words as a skinny young guy he was already kicking ass. It took Jeter four full seasons to put up an OPS better than Nomar's first full rookie year.

According to SI, as of 2001, here were the weights of the three top SS compared to their weights during their rookie season
Nomar 190 (rookie 167, plus 23 pounds)
Jeter 195 (rookie 175, plus 20 pounds)
A-Rod 210 (rookie 190, plus 20 pounds)

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Just a guy that got so jacked he messed up his wrist a week after this picture and then kept getting injuries consistent with steroid use. But he was just a skinny little shortstop right.

Thanks zyron for answering for me..........the pop goes the groin was well documented too....injures like that suddenly!!

So ignorant to facts within their own clubhouse it's hilarious........"we were so clean" hahahaha

I think it's because they're not allowed to have facial hair.

Every team in MLB used steroids, wasn't against the rules just illegal. We all pretend its some huge stigma but it really doesn't matter unless you happen to be one of the clean players who lost a spot. It might make you feel better to think 'dirty Nomar' got what he deserved but the likely truth is he just had bad luck and 8/10 guys who used never had problems.

well he was a skinny little shortstop when he came up in 1996 but that pic is in 2001. 5 years after his first appearance in the majors. Is it possible he roided up? Hell yeah. Is it possible that Jeets and Mo and Posada roided up or HGH'd up or whatever PED you want to put in there? Hell yeah. You really think the Core Four is clean? We already know 1/4 was dirty even though he promised he was clean.

That Yankees clubhouse was like a CSI lab in the late 90's early 2000's....and that's not even counting the Golden Thong that Giambi made everyone wear or Clemens getting his icy hot treatments in places you don't want to get icy hot treatments. Freak Show Central. This was not a hangout for choir boys people.

Anyway, getting back to the topic of the thread, looks like Middlebrooks will NOT need surgery and it should heal on it's own. Hopefully the Sox will shut him down for the year and get him ready for a full season next year.

Still waiting for them to shut down Crawford so he can get his TJ surgery and come back ASAP.

You are seriously out of control with your red sunglasses................the Sox were just as bad when they won it all like it or not EVERYONE cheated Papi, Damon, Millar, Varitek I promised all juiced and to think otherwise tells me your a bigger joke than I already assumed!! Baseball is not the same pal........................

Baseball is not the same and their testing policy sucks..........it took this long to catch Melky? He looked different and performed better....no he was suspended???........it took this long after 2 of his "finest" years ever suddenly? Joke

Hey Vinnie from the Bronx put down the pasta and gravy, pick up your glasses and show me where I said the Sox never juiced.

What I did say was I find it comical that you and your partners in crime take shots at Nomar for roiding (he likely did although he was never officially "caught") yet 99.99% of the Yankees fanbase will go to their grave thinking the sacred Core Four never touched a thing.