Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 by Adam Wagner
In Case You Missed It…
A minor story flew under the radar last week about the Pirates’ medical staff and minor leaguer Clayton Hamilton. Hamilton (6.36 ERA this year, 4.34 ERA last year) had been having pain in his side for over a year, including a two month stint on the disabled list at High A Lynchburg last season and, when the pain didn’t go away after 15 starts last year, asking the Pirates what was wrong with him. They responded that it was a strained oblique, just as they had last year, and sent him to Bradenton and the disabled list.
Hamilton eventually asked the Pirates for more tests and received them, with those tests revealing a broken eleventh rib that may never completely heal because it was never diagnosed. The gross negligence on the part of the Pirates here is absolutely disgusting, and the story completely speaks for itself, but perhaps Genarro Filice summed it up best on cnnsi.com:
Basically, Buccos doctors flushed a year of Hamilton’s career down the toilet with their negligence. Just the latest example of why the Pirates organization could be the worst in major sports.
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