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Cherington: Crawford hasn’t requested Tommy John surgery 08.18.12 at 3:28 pm ET
By Alex Speier

NEW YORK — Red Sox GM Ben Cherington, in response to a report by Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe that outfielder Carl Crawford would soon ask the Sox for permission to undergo Tommy John surgery on his torn left ulnar collateral ligament next week, said that the outfielder has yet to make such a request to the team. At this point, the GM said, the team is “monitoring” his health while remaining in close contact with the outfielder to “determine a course that’s best for him and best for the team.”

Cherington declined to say whether Crawford’s elbow has gotten worse since his return from the DL last month.

“He’s got an injury that he’s been playing through and playing well, gutting it out to help the team,” said Cherington. “We’re monitoring it, keeping in touch with him, seeing how he’s doing with it an we’ll continue to do that .”

Cherington denied that surgery is an inevitability at this point.

“It’s not inevitable until it happens,” Cherington suggested. “We felt earlier in the summer that it was something that we had a chance to manage conservatively and Carl was on board for that. As I said, we’ll continue to monitor it and if it gets to the point where he feels it’s not something he can play with safely, we’ll consider that next step.”

Still, Cherington said that the team’s place in the standings would not influence its feelings about whether surgery or rehab was the right course.

“It’s going to be focused on him mostly. We’re not going to ask a player to go out there if they’re having symptoms that don’t allow them to be who they are on the field. It’s not fair. It’s going to be a lot more about Carl than where the team is.”

Cherington suggested that the typical Tommy John recovery process for a position player is typically seven to nine months, but varies on a case-by-case basis. In 29 games since coming off the DL at the start of the second half, Crawford is hitting .287/.313/.500/.813 with three homers and four steals.

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  • Short sighted Lucchino

    Clearly, Sox management is more concerned with avoiding giving the impression that they are throwing in the towel for the year than they are with getting Crawford healthy so he can play all of next year.  This small-minded attitude will result in Carl missing a significant portion of next year as well and putting next years playoff bid in jeopardy.  I cannot imagine that this is the mindset of Ben Cherington but more-so the brainstorm of the always spin-doctor Larry Lucchino.

  • Short sighted Lucchino

    Clearly, Sox management is more concerned with avoiding giving the impression that they are throwing in the towel for the year than they are with getting Crawford healthy so he can play all of next year.  This small-minded attitude will result in Carl missing a significant portion of next year as well and putting next years playoff bid in jeopardy.  I cannot imagine that this is the mindset of Ben Cherington but more-so the brainstorm of the always spin-doctor Larry Lucchino.

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.barsalou.9 Paul Barsalou

    So what is going to be surgery next April ,like Nomars wrist

  • WHO CARES

    Again I say how did this guy (crawford) pass a physical? Who’s idea was it to bring Crawford here? answer  Theo the Nitwit  21million a year  for 7 years imagine if Boras was his agent he would have got $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.  Again WOW Red Sox are Morons.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZVFM2HRNC5CTO2OUXD4XTX65O4 Dennis

     If Crawford’s elbow goes “pop” next year, Cherington is going to look a bit foolish. That’ll make 3 years of nothing from Crawford.

  • EarlSweatshirt

    Clearly you care.  You took time out of your pathetic existence to write mindless drivel without an original thought.  You lose.

  • EarlSweatshirt

    Speak English.

  • EarlSweatshirt

    …Or maybe that’s what Lucchino WANTS you to think.  *plays Inception music*

  • JimDaytona

    Crawford should have had surgery over a month ago given the length of time it will take for him to come back. Everyone, except the Sox, knew the team would not make the playoffs. What a circus this team has become. 

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZVFM2HRNC5CTO2OUXD4XTX65O4 Dennis

     Hey, does somebody want to wake them up over at WEEI.Com?  WHDH-TV is now reporting that Crawford will have surgery on his elbow, possibly next week. 

  • innovator

    Allard Baird did the intensive scouting and Theo pulled the trigger..

  • patsfan69

    i think he meant brandon [llyod]

  • Fab4ever

    This was a great interview….lots of man love being passed around…his respect for Joe Montana is huge…and rightfully so….to be discussed and compared to Joe, to be in the same startosphere as Joe, is confirmation that Brady is one of the best…haters will hate, envy has a way of clouding objectivity …

  • Shennessey

    Brady is no doubt one of the greatest QB’s in the history of the NFL, but can we stop trying to compare him to Montana, Joe is 4- 0 in the super bowl and has no picks. Brady has lost 2 super bowls already and has multiple picks. Stats mean nothing, both montana and brady were dunk and dink QB’s with a lot of short passes. Bradshaw was also 4-0 in the super bowl, but i do think Brady was much better QB. Its so hard to compare different era’s. nobody was better then Unitas. If you were lucky enough to see him play, i don’t think anybody will deny that

  • RobDX

    I could say Slingin Sammy Baugh is better because he invented forward passing. It’s all opinions.

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