He has bruised ribs and a shoulder sprain after a dirt bike accident. I'm sure the Giants are thrilled with that news.

Expected to miss 6-8 weeks

wow

just got an alert that they think more than 2 months now

Eh their season is pretty much over already anyway.

Guy is a clown

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Eh their season is pretty much over already anyway.

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They're five games back in April..... I guess that means the rangers season is over too?

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Pretty much.

Ive watched every game this season. It's brutal. When gorkys hernandez is starting most games in centerfield and leading off most of the year, you have more than small problems. This team is filled with scrubs. No centerfielder, no left fielder, no bullpen except closer. All the same problems from the end of last season and they did nothing to address things (the bullpen is actually worse this year somehow). And now their ace is a dumbass and hurts himself. You can't have this many holes this early in the season and feel confident about being better than a .500 team.

If they somehow turn it around, great. But i wouldn't put money on them at vegas.

Arguably not quite Kevin Brown level of stupidity, but, it's gotta be up there.

Was Kevin brown the one who hurt his elbow flicking sunflower seeds?

No. He broke his hand by punching a brick wall during one of the many tantrums he threw when things didn't go his way.

It was his non pitching hand which makes the bumgarner case arguably stupider. If Brown broke his pitching hand, that would be conclusive.

Reminds me of when Jeff Kent broke his wrist "tripping over a hose while washing his truck." Rumor was he was trying to break his personal wheelie record on his dirt bike.

Also, wasn't it Clint Barmes that broke something falling down the stairs trying to carry too much deer meat up the stairs to his apartment.

And of course, Trevor Bauer and his drone.

Moises Alou and the treadmill

Sosa threw out his back sneezing

I played at Bellaire with Enrique Cruz at the time and as I recall it the treadmill was a cover for pickup basketball.

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Sosa threw out his back sneezing

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To be fair, I have had some terrible sneezes where I thought I was going to do the same... I remember laughing at it at the time then sneezing a few months later and thinking, holy ****, he wasn't lying.

I found this while searching for the guy who got hurt trying to hold too many baseballs in one hand (I couldn't find that one):

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29000/24-most-bizarre-injuries-baseball-history

1. Ken Griffey Jr. missed a game when his protective cup slipped and pinched a testicle. (I spent four years in journalism school and three decades as a sportswriter wondering if I'd ever get to write such a sentence.)

2. Pitcher Jamie Easterly started a new workout regimen at home in Crockett, Texas, back in the mid-1980s. One drill included backwards running. He promptly stepped in a gopher hole and hurt his back.

3. Outfielder Marty Cordova missed time with the Orioles in 2002 because he scorched his face in a tanning bed and was ordered by doctors to avoid direct sunlight. Standing in the sun from February through September apparently didn't give him the glow he sought.

4. Reliever Steve Sparks dislocated his shoulder while ripping a telephone book in half emulating some motivational speakers he just heard speak.

5. Wade Boggs might've laughed at that if he didn't miss a week after straining his back while trying to pull on his cowboy boots.

6. According to the legend of Clarence Blethen, the Red Sox rookie pitcher in 1923 thought he looked meaner without his false teeth when he was on the mound. He supposedly didn't think to put them back in his mouth while he batted. That led to Blethen sliding into second base and getting bit in the posterior by his own teeth.
He was removed from the game for excessive bleeding.

7. Relief pitcher Ernie Camacho signed autographs for a charity one spring, stopped after 100 or so and made a beeline for the team doctor complaining of pain in his pitching elbow.

8. In Atlanta one year, utility infielder Randy Johnson dislocated his thumb putting on his socks and spent six weeks on the disabled list.

9. Brian Giles, a free-spirit, blamed his absence from the Indians lineup one year on spider bites.

10. Tough-guy Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, famous for hog-tying Robin Ventura when Ventura rushed the mound, was bitten by a very brave coyote.

11. Jose Cardenal missed a game in the 1970s, citing fatigue. His claim: crickets got into his hotel room and kept him awake all night. That was his story. Another one of his stories: In 1974 he missed a game because his eyelid was "stuck open," preventing him from blinking (but not, apparently, fabricating bogus injuries).

12. Rickey Henderson missed several games one August. The reason: frostbite. Why do I feel the need to add "allegedly"?

13. Atlanta Braves closer Cecil Upshaw missed the entire 1970 season when his ring got caught on an awning as he tried to demonstrate his slam dunk technique.

14. Reliever Greg A. Harris once missed two starts after spending an entire game flicking sunflower seeds at a friend who was sitting nearby. Diagnosis: inflamed elbow.

15 and 16. Pitcher Tom Glavine broke a rib vomiting. How weak! Kevin Mitchell only strained a muscle while vomiting.

17. George Brett broke a toe while running from the kitchen to the TV. Why the rush? To see Bill Buckner hit. I would've guessed it was to see Bill Buckner field.

18. Outfielder Moises Alou, who came from a proud baseball family, injured his knee falling off a treadmill, then hurt his knee again a year later running over his son with a bike.

19. Pitcher David Cone got bit by his mother-in-law's dog. Perhaps on command.

20. Watching a brawl break out one game, reliever Ted Power leapt to his feet in defense of his teammates and strained a calf muscle.

21. Cubs' pitcher Ryan Dempster went on the DL with a fractured right big toe suffered while tying to jump the dugout railing to celebrate a Chicago victory.

22. Kevin Mitchell didn't get hurt vomiting all the time. Once, according to ESPN.com, he showed up at spring training four days late after getting hurt eating a microwaved donut and requiring a root canal.

23. Blue Jays outfielder Glenallen Hill fell out of bed and crashed into a glass table while having a nightmare that he was covered by spiders. To which even the most sympathetic manager would say, "Yeah, sure you did."

24. In 2011, Indians' rookie Jason Kipnis strained his hamstring while stretching to avoid, you know, straining his hamstring.