It looks as though Houston 2nd basemen Kaz Matsui will miss 2 to 3 weeks, which will include opening day, after getting a surgical procedure to repair an anal fissure on Monday according to MLB.com. Astro veterans Geoff Blum and Mark Loretta will most likely be the guys to fill in for the injured infielder.
Team officials said the surgery went successful and Matsui was originally slated to be out only 2 weeks but after reconsideration team doctors decided to tack on an extra week just to be safe. “We won’t put him on [the DL] right away, but from the report from the doctors, it’s a foregone conclusion he’ll start the year on the DL,” general manager Ed Wade said.
I don’t think the missed time will hurt the ‘Stros too much as long as Loretta and Blum fill in like veteran utility guys should.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Wow…that can’t be baseball related. What a weird thing to have ANAL FISSURE. Sounds gross, but I hope that he isn’t out for to long I think this may be a year for him. But now to find out that his anus isn’t right…who knows!
March 24th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
No kidding, I was a little worried about reporting on it because of how strange the injury was but I figured fans would want to know why he’s out.