Jet's Brush With Greatness

[jetproppilot]

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You'll enjoy this Noy, since you played pro baseball.

I can talk about it now that the news is out about dudes surgery.

Several months ago I put Chad Gaudin to sleep...dudes a major league pitcher for the Oakland As.

He's from New Orleans....we have some great orthopedists at my hospital....one of them is the team doc for the New Orleans Saints...the dude Chad selected to do his surgery is also an ortho rokkstar...

anyway, Scott, one of our CRNAs who is a baseball savant saw dudes name on the schedule. Dude scheduled for some relatively minor hip and foot surgery, but needed a GA.

PRETTY COOL, I thought! I'm gonna meet a major league pitcher today!

I go pre-op the dude.

Noy, I swear, I was like.....😱

this dudes a major league pitcher?

Pretty tiny dude!!! About 5'9 and a buck-seventy!!!!!

Super, super nice, laid back guy.

Amazing how such a diminutive-statured-dude can throw smoke.....accurately....over and over and over....

Got to talk with him for a while.....dude apparently born with his gift.....was a superstar pitcher in high school here in New Orleans. He decided to bypass college and was drafted in 2001....pretty low round draft pick by the devil rays.....hmmmmm.....dude was born in 1983.....drafted in 2001....18 years old!!! WOW!!!!!

And he made it to the majors!!!

Very, very cool.

Chad was super laid back, but you could feel his confidence....not with an arrogant flair at all....but he knew he could deliver the goods...

...as evident by his answer to my question:

Jet: "Chad, so whats your best pitch?"

he smiled confidently.

Chad: "Man, I don't know. I've got four and they're ALL GOOD."

Gave the dude 2+2 on the way to the OR, a stikka propofol and he swallowed an LMA #4.

He breathed Sevo for about an hour, woke him up, brought him to recovery.

Sounds like he's commin along pretty well.

Hope you strike'm dead this year, Chad.

 

[Coastie]

HIPAA?

You'll enjoy this Noy, since you played pro baseball.

I can talk about it now that the news is out about dudes surgery.

Several months ago I put Chad Gaudin to sleep...dudes a major league pitcher for the Oakland As.

He's from New Orleans....we have some great orthopedists at my hospital....one of them is the team doc for the New Orleans Saints...the dude Chad selected to do his surgery is a rokkstar...

anyway, Scott, one of our CRNAs who is a baseball savant saw dudes name on the schedule. Dude scheduled for some relatively minor hip and foot surgery, but needed a GA.

PRETTY COOL, I thought! I'm gonna meet a major league pitcher today!

I go pre-op the dude.

Noy, I swear, I was like.....😱

this dudes a major league pitcher?

Pretty tiny dude!!! About 5'9 and a buck-seventy!!!!!

Super, super nice, laid back guy.

Amazing how such a diminutive-statured-dude can throw smoke.....accurately....over and over and over....

Got to talk with him for a while.....dude apparently born with his gift.....was a superstar pitcher in high school here in New Orleans. He decided to bypass college and was drafted in 2001....pretty low round draft pick by the devil rays.....hmmmmm.....dude was born in 1983.....drafted in 2001....18 years old!!! WOW!!!!!

And he made it to the majors!!!

Very, very cool.

Chad was super laid back, but you could feel his confidence....not with an arrogant flair at all....but he knew he could deliver the goods...

...as evident by his answer to my question:

Jet: "Chad, so whats your best pitch?"

he smiled confidently.

Chad: "Man, I don't know. I've got four and they're ALL GOOD."

Gave the dude 2+2 on the way to the OR, a stikka propofol and he swallowed an LMA #4.

He breathed Sevo for about an hour, woke him up, brought him to recovery.

Sounds like he's commin along pretty well.

Hope you strike'm dead this year, Chad.

 

[jetproppilot]

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[Noyac]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_y...cF?slug=ap-athletics-gaudin&prov=ap&type=lgns

The press talks about it, so no HIPAA violation.


Very Cool Jet

Remember, baseball players don't have to be big. Hard to tell these days with the steroids, etc.

 

[Coastie]

Just was checking up to cover Jet's back, that's all.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_y...cF?slug=ap-athletics-gaudin&prov=ap&type=lgns

The press talks about it, so no HIPAA violation.


Very Cool Jet

Remember, baseball players don't have to be big. Hard to tell these days with the steroids, etc.

 

[jetproppilot]

Just was checking up to cover Jet's back, that's all.

preciate it.

 

[nociceptor]

The pitcher in question.

Jet, of course he looks small (compared to you). By the looks of his throwing motion I am betting he screwed up his shoulder/elbow really bad.

 

[Disciple]

That's what a pitcher's arm angle is supposed to look like right before he releases the ball.

 

[nociceptor]

That's what a pitcher's arm angle is supposed to look like right before he releases the ball.

my understanding is that is close to what it is suppose to be but there should be less stress in the forearm area and the shoulder. The stress should be evenly displaced for maximum velocity and ease.😉

 

[Disciple]

How can you tell if he has too much or the optimal amount of stress in his forearm by looking at the picture?

All professional pitchers have increased external rotation in their pitching arm, most pronounced just before the arm comes forward with the pitch.

Google some other pics of pitchers, you'll see what I mean.

 

[nociceptor]

How can you tell if he has too much or the optimal amount of stress in his forearm by looking at the picture?

Because I am god

and I know a lot about forearms

the hand on the right is me.😀

 

[Noyac]

That is the correct position of the arm.

Can anyone tell me what pitch he is throwing there? Fastball? Curve? slider? change? Screwball? Or one of Daisuke Matsuzaka's other 6 pitches?

 

[Leverage]

I am guessing the curve.

 

[Noyac]

I am guessing the curve.

Nope

 

[jeesapeesa]

the good ole fashioned fastball..........................(four seam?)

 

[Disciple]

Cutter?

 

[Noyac]

the good ole fashioned fastball..........................(four seam?)

You got it.

 

[jetproppilot]

You got it.

Speaking of fastballs, I was in Orlando at some science-amusement place a few years ago (when you walk in the building looks like its upside down or something like that....anyone ever been there?)....they had a place where you could throw a baseball and look at the clocked speed...

I threw as hard as I could.....

48mph.

Literally amazes me this dude and most MLB pitchers throw twice that fast.

 

[Noyac]

the good ole fashioned fastball..........................(four seam?)

It is the 4 seam.

 

[Monty Python]

With apologies for hi-jacking the thread. That image brought back a flood of incredible memories. I was in the Sistine Chapel in 2004 and was awe-struck at the beauty of that painting on the chapel's ceiling. It's simply beyond words to describe. A ten year project to chemically remove 500 years' worth of candle soot had recently been completed, and the colors in the paintings were electric.

At that time Pope John Paul II was in declining health, and rumors were already swirling that the church would close the Sistine Chapel to the general public after his death. I hope not.

 

[lane]

How can you tell if he has too much or the optimal amount of stress in his forearm by looking at the picture?

All professional pitchers have increased external rotation in their pitching arm, most pronounced just before the arm comes forward with the pitch.

Google some other pics of pitchers, you'll see what I mean.

i believe that's mike hampton 😳

Justin Verlander

Randy Johnson

my little brother has an amazing pic of clemens' UCL during his delivery but alas it is in houston and i am not...

 

[Disciple]

You'll enjoy this Noy, since you played pro baseball.

I can talk about it now that the news is out about dudes surgery.

Several months ago I put Chad Gaudin to sleep...dudes a major league pitcher for the Oakland As.

Headed to the Cubs with Rich Harden for the playoff run.

Anybody care to weigh in on who got the better deal?

Brewers/Sabathia, Cubs/Harden.


Hope Harden doesn't end up like Mark Prior.

 

[jetproppilot]

Headed to the Cubs with Rich Harden for the playoff run.

Anybody care to weigh in on who got the better deal?

Brewers/Sabathia, Cubs/Harden.


Hope Harden doesn't end up like Mark Prior.

Thanks for bumping this cool thread, Chief!

I'd like to respond to Nociceptor's response about arm/shoulder movement/position with a vignette....

In my previous gig one of the orthopedists played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for a cuppla years.. Jeff Garrison...

He's a successful dude, orthopedist in a lucrative private practice and team doc for several high schools and a cuppla Louisiana colleges now...

He conveyed to me the story that he hears over and over and over again....

young, budding athletes in his office when they are in their teens with shoulder problems (baseball), knee problems (football)...

some of them are minor and treatable, but most of them are....according to Dr Garrison..Darwinian.

Its survival of the fittest in professional sports, ladies and gentlemen.

The Chad Gaudin major leagers out there's joints can handle the stress.

The others are, well, being weeded out.

 

[Strength&Speed]

That is the correct position of the arm.

Can anyone tell me what pitch he is throwing there? Fastball? Curve? slider? change? Screwball? Or one of Daisuke Matsuzaka's other 6 pitches?

can't see his fourth finger. if its not on the ball i'd say a fastball. but ive been divorced from the game of baseball for a while so dunno...

 

[Strength&Speed]

Speaking of fastballs, I was in Orlando at some science-amusement place a few years ago (when you walk in the building looks like its upside down or something like that....anyone ever been there?)....they had a place where you could throw a baseball and look at the clocked speed...

I threw as hard as I could.....

48mph.

Literally amazes me this dude and most MLB pitchers throw twice that fast.

Im sure you could throw faster than that. It is pretty amazing tho. I quit in 8th grade, and dudes who could throw in the mid 70's looked like lightening back then.

 

[Noyac]

Im sure you could throw faster than that. It is pretty amazing tho. I quit in 8th grade, and dudes who could throw in the mid 70's looked like lightening back then.

75 mph in 8th grade is lightning.

Thats 80 in 9th

85 by sophmore or junior and

90 as a senior.

Then, a real pitching coach gets a hold of you and your throwing 95 mph.

 

[jetproppilot]

I think Gaudin just got traded to the Cubs.

Thats good for me cause they never show the As on TV around these parts.

 

[Mman]

Gaudin is definitely a MLB pitcher, but he's roughly a league average player. Career ERA of 4.33 compared to league average of 4.24 over his career. He is definitely better in the bullpen than when Oakland dabbled with him as a starter last year. 11-13 with a 4.42 ERA got him sent back to the pen for the most part.


He'll likely be a long reliever and spot starter for most of his career.

 

[Disciple]

Gaudin will be good for the Cubs bullpen.

Harden's first start is beginning right now.

Everybody is Chicago is waiting for his arm to fall off by the 6th inning.