Official Yankees Release on Mariano Rivera Surgery

Here's the release:

RHP Mariano Rivera will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder on Tuesday, October 7. The procedure will be performed by Dr. David Altchek at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

Well, here's to hoping he comes back next year even better than ever, if that's even possible. Looking on the bright side, at least he was able to get his surgery done earlier due to the Yankees early season departure...although that's really reaching for a positive.

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Mariano Rivera Injury?

It looked as if the season was going to end against Boston with little more bad news. Until the news that Mariano Rivera would be getting an MRI on his shoulder after pitching in four games between September 19th and the 23rd. The Yankees were officially eliminated on the day of his last appearance when he recorded the save against the Blue Jays. With the Red Sox win over the Cleveland Indians, the Yankees season ended, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

What really gets to me, however, is the disconnect between Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi, which is what seems to have been the case here. Whereas Cashman had said that Mariano's shoulder was the specific issue, Girardi told reporters it was nothing more than a, "cranky body." Not sure what that really means, but I digress. This quip from Girardi led to a rather tense media session with reporters. The media really pressed Girardi for information on Rivera, and Girardi took the offensive saying that he would never pitch him if there was even a possibility he could hurt him.

This brings me to my take. Joe Girardi got a little defensive when the media really tried to get a real answer on Rivera's condition. I'm not sure why Girardi is surprised by this. One, it's their job to get confirmation on injuries such as this, and it would make sense that if Cashman and Girardi had said the same thing, that it could be reasonably certain Rivera was going for the MRI, which we now know. Second, Girardi's past, even just with the Yankees, in reporting player injuries, has been shaky. It has been several times now where he has said a player will be fine or it's just a little this-or-that and the player ends up hurt for a significant amount of time. That's where I see the mistrust from the media coming from, and I can understand that. Here's to praying that this time it's nothing more than a, "cranky body" for real.

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