Saito out through July and August: The Dodgers placed veteran closer Takashi Saito on the 15-day DL with a right elbow sprain that will keep him out 6-to-8 weeks. Saito said he hopes to be pitching again well before the end of the season, then added surgery is a possibility for his ailing right elbow. "Right now, I'm under doctor's and trainer's orders to rest 10 days with no activities," Saito said through translator Acey Kohrogi, the Dodgers' director of Asian operations. "The possibility exists that (surgery) might have to happen. Right now, we're concentrating on the six weeks of rehab and how that's going. I hope to be back by the end of August." Saito was diagnosed with a sprained ligament in his pitching elbow earlier this week by a team doctor, who recommended six weeks of rehabilitation before the 38-year-old right-hander is reevaluated. (Updated 07/20/2008).
Injury Report
Elbow - 15-day DL. Might be out for the season (Updated - 7/20/08)
Fantasy Analysis
Saito might still be done for the season, so consider him nothing more than a DL stashee in deeper leagues at this point. Jonathan Broxton is a great sleeper at the closer position in the second half and might never surrender that job back to the old Saito again. (Updated 07/20/2008).
Saito said he hopes to be pitching again well before the end of the season, then added that surgery is a possibility for his ailing right elbow. Saito was diagnosed with a sprained ligament in his pitching elbow earlier this week by a team doctor, who recommended six weeks of rehabilitation before the 38-year-old right-hander is reevaluated. (Updated 07/17/2008)
Advice
"Right now, I'm under doctor's and trainer's orders to rest 10 days with no activities," Saito said Thursday on a conference call through translator Acey Kohrogi, the Dodgers' director of Asian operations. "The possibility exists that (surgery) might have to happen."
Saito out through July and August: The Dodgers placed veteran closer Takashi Saito on the 15-day DL with a right elbow sprain that will keep him out 6-to-8 weeks. Saito said he hopes to be pitching again well before the end of the season, then added surgery is a possibility for his ailing right elbow. "Right now, I'm under doctor's and trainer's orders to rest 10 days with no activities," Saito said through translator Acey Kohrogi, the Dodgers' director of Asian operations. "The possibility exists that (surgery) might have to happen. Right now, we're concentrating on the six weeks of rehab and how that's going. I hope to be back by the end of August." Saito was diagnosed with a sprained ligament in his pitching elbow earlier this week by a team doctor, who recommended six weeks of rehabilitation before the 38-year-old right-hander is reevaluated. (Updated 07/20/2008).
Injury Report
Elbow - 15-day DL. Might be out for the season (Updated - 7/20/08)
Fantasy Analysis
Saito might still be done for the season, so consider him nothing more than a DL stashee in deeper leagues at this point. Jonathan Broxton is a great sleeper at the closer position in the second half and might never surrender that job back to the old Saito again. (Updated 07/20/2008).
= probable start
