Expert Opinion

Expert Opinion OK, so now the Blue Jays have placed outfielder George Springer on the IL, and Mets’ starter Jacob deGrom is dealing with back soreness. I’m sure it has nothing to do with trying to make machines out of athletes. Of course, I’m kidding. Yesterday, the Sun-Times quoted Brian Schulz, an orthopedic surgeon and specialist in sports medicine, on Luis Robert’s hip flexor injury. My layman’s opinion about over-muscled athletes just got some expert support, thank you very much. Schulz said, “These athletes are so long and so fit, and he’s going from 0 to 100 almost immediately and the forces that are going through [Robert’s musculature] at the time, if his muscles aren’t warmed up or maybe he was just a little tight that day from the workload he had the previous day, who knows? Those forces are so great that sometimes the muscle can’t provide the support that it needs to.” I told you so.