Per: Everett Herald, Kirby Arnold
Catcher Rob Johnson hasn’t been able to play the past two days because of a sprained left ankle.
How’d he hurt it?
During the home-plate scrum after Ichiro Suzuki’s game-winning homer Friday against the Yankees, the Mariners gathered around home plate and performed their traditional whack-a-thon with their hero. There was a lot of slapping, pushing and jumping around.
Johnson came down wrong on his left ankle.
In a battle of who has the worst footwork, Rob Johnson managed to out duel both Jeff Clement and a man with both feet chopped off.
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It happens.
There was a Padres prospect, I believe, a few years back who was on his way to some sort of major league career when he stomped on home plate in an excessive show of exuberance after hitting a game-winning grand slam against the Rainiers. He ended up breaking something, I forget it was a bone or a snapped ligament, but he wasn’t doing so well after that.
JY - September 21, 2009
The immortal Tagg Bozied.
Yeah, he ended up tearing multiple ligaments on that stomp, and never really recovered as a prospect.
marc w - September 21, 2009
That's the one!
I knew you’d pick up on that one.
JY - September 21, 2009
I was at that game
we were all excited about the game-winning HR and then when the pigpile cleared and Bozied didn’t get up the whole stadium got really quiet really fast.
pdb - September 21, 2009
Didn't a player miss the post season a few years back with a split fingernail?
Got stepped on during the celebratory dog pile. I can’t remember the players name and I’m failing at google.
Kermit. - September 21, 2009
Denny Hocking
msb - September 21, 2009
Whee Rob Moore wheee
Also, it appears Kenji isn’t quite as toast as it appeared at the beginning of the year.
I also like the fact that Kenji totally smokes Rob Johnson on CS% and passed balls/game, but obviously Rob Johnson is the better defensive player, ‘cause his CERA’s awesome, and the pitchers love working to him.
eponymous_coward - September 21, 2009
Rob Moore
?
CMC_Stags - September 21, 2009
So what the hell happens if Rob Moore gets hurt?
I’m not wishing ill on the man – far from it, I’d like to see him take advantage of the opportunity – but there’s no formal catchers left on the 40-man roster…
Spoomeister - September 21, 2009
The Mariners send a check for $6.43 to the Nationals and buy Jamie Burke back?
eponymous_coward - September 21, 2009
Adam Moore?
Wakamatsu said that Rob could have caught in an emergency; the plan apparently for next year is to send Hannahan to Peoria to work on it— he was Emergency Catcher when with the A’s.
msb - September 21, 2009
So he'll catch in spring training?
w00tah - September 21, 2009
Doubt it--
I can’t recall any of the previous emergency catchers actually working a game.
msb - September 21, 2009
That's what the emergency catcher is for,
I would have loved to see Raul Ibanez or Willie Bloomquist get behind the plate.
Raul Ibanez would be the Seattle Mariners’ emergency third catcher if needed and Willie Bloomquist would be the “emergency, emergency catcher,”
Janic - September 21, 2009
As Raul caught in the minors, it wasn't a big stretch for him.
msb - September 21, 2009
So who's emergency catcher now? Hannahan (who is day-to-day with some quad thing, I think)?
Spoomeister - September 21, 2009
Rob or Hannahan, apparently
Hannahan is ok, Langerhans has had upper-back spasms, Hall has the quad
msb - September 21, 2009
Sweeney came up as a catcher
Just sayin’…multiple knee surgeries later, wonder if he could even crouch for an inning.
appleshampoo - September 21, 2009
Christ - I meant Adam Moore, obviously. I glanced up at the previous entry while entering mine.
Bah!
Spoomeister - September 21, 2009
Sweeney was the emergency catcher at the beginning of the year, if I recall correctly.
He was a catcher early in his career before he got shifted over to first base.
I Lick Squirrels - September 21, 2009
I know he was on the list that day Joh left with the hamstring injury-- he and Tui
msb - September 21, 2009
Kenji?
Mariner John - September 21, 2009
What happens if a player refuses?
Is MLB leaving itself open to a lawsuit if a player rides the bench because they wouldn’t wear the pink backpack?
(Also, did Ichiro have to do anything like this in 2001?)
Janic - September 21, 2009
Why would a player be benched for not wanting to wear the bullpen backpack?
msb - September 21, 2009
Players can get in their manager's dog house for many reasons,
but if a lawyer was able to prove that it was the result of their refusal to be hazed, I would think that they could sue for all sorts of things. (or at least in a regular workplace enviroment they could) I don’t know if such a lawsuit is possible against MLB, so that’s why I’m asking.
Janic - September 21, 2009
Why would you turn down a chance to dress up as Catwoman?
Poochie - September 21, 2009
And yes, when handed a Hooter's outfit in 2001, Ichiro wore them.
They say he now has them framed, and on a wall.
Kaz apparently made it clear in his rookie season that he thought it was beneath his dignity (I know) and so was not made part of the rookie day.
msb - September 21, 2009
Would you have messed with Kaz Sasaki
Big muscly foreign dude, who clearly liked a jar now and again?
I’m not asking him to wear a frock.
Colm - September 21, 2009
When Ibanez left the Ms
I was worried if there was a replacement defender for LL to post gifs of and commentary about their defence. Luckily you kept the collection of Raul taking pride in his defence (I can watch lawn dart over and over and never tire of it) and Rob Johnson came along.
kyokom - September 21, 2009
Rob Moore will be featured tomorrow on Banner Bank's Building to the Future
followed by Blowers adding, “He’ll be a good one.”
G_ - September 21, 2009
So is Rob Moore the next Neftali Perez?
marc w - September 21, 2009
Matt Clement, more like...
Oh…
PositivePaul - September 21, 2009
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