Remember a little over a month ago when Brandon Morrow was placed on the DL for the second time and his “biceps inflammation” was supposedly no big deal? Oh, what I wouldn’t give for a return to those halcyon days of blissful ignorance.
“It was bothering him a bit,” Joe Maddon said at the time. “We thought it was manageable but now it’s not, so we have to take a little bit of a break. We don’t anticipate him being gone for a long time, but it seems to be prudent to go this course right now.”
A week later, however, pitching coach Jim Hickey said the closer still had “a lot of pain in there” and that a quick return wasn’t likely.