Under The Knife -- Wrap

Information on Joba Chamberlain's injury is hard to come by By Will Carroll, Baseball Prospectus, Special to SI.com I started my week sitting in the Texas sun, looking up at the scoreboard to see that the gametime temperature was 105. I'm pretty sure I could have made weight at welterweight after three hours of sweating, but sometimes you have to sacrifice for baseball. As we cross the hottest part of the summer, the races in five of the six divisions are almost as hot as an Al Gore summer. That means that some of these races will be decided not by the best pitcher or the hottest hitter, but by which team can avoid or at least minimize injuries. That means the most important names to know might end up being Gene Monahan, Paul Lessard, Ron Porterfield or Herm Schneider. (Go look it up if you don't already know who they are.) I... [read full story]