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Devestating
The Giants injury news goes from tenuous to worse. First, Robb Nen who has been throwing fairly well in spring suddenly can't throw at all. Apparently he's having shoulder discomfort. Of course when your rotator cuff is between 40-80 percent torn, discomfort is bound to happen. Jason Schmidt's elbow and shoulder (and forearm?) are also not responding so well. Both Nen and Schmidt will start the season on the DL. It's got to be even money if Nen ever throws a pitch in anger during a league game, let alone makes it through a championship season.

This team has been around having Schmidt throw 200 innings of shut-down pitching. If the Giants don't get Schmidt back until say, mid-May, this season, which already seems like it's going to be a long one, suddenly got a lot longer. By the way, when your stud pitcher starts making comments like Schmidt did on March 6th, you better take another look at the MRI. "I felt good, really good -- almost too good. I felt too strong and tried to hold back." Sure Jason.