St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Scott

Rolen said Thursday he's been told his ailing left shoulder

will require surgery for a torn labrum that will sideline him

for six months.

 

Rolen, who underwent surgery on the shoulder after a May

10 base-running collision with Dodgers first Hee-Seop Choi,

was placed on the 15-day disabled July 22 when it became the

clear he was not progressing. He batted .205 while playing

from June 18-July 21 with no homers and eight RBIs in 87

at-bats.

 

Rolen met with Dr. Tim Kremchek, the Cincinnati Reds'

medical supervisor, last week to get a second opinion on the

injury. Rolen said the doctor that did the surgery, former

Cardinals team physician Dr. George Paletta, believed there

was a slight chance that Rolen could rehab without additional

surgery.

 

Rolen, who's batting .235 overall with five homers and 28

RBIs in 56 games, said he's weighing whether to attempt to

finish the season.

 

The Cardinals had a major-league best 76-44 record

entering Thursday night's game against the Diamondbacks.

 

Source: AP

 

 

 

 

 

No offense but if Mikey doesn't win the Gold Glove this year....im going to protest

LoL I'm sure he will..

 

Woohoo..

 

Watch as Nunez and Mabry dominate the rest of the NL in the playoffs [/sarcasm]

 

:lol

 

Anyways about Scott.. It's not like he was doing much. Yea I'd like him back but the dude's playing there right now have contributed just fine. I suppose I'll have to take my chances with Nunez and Mabry, etc. Oh well.

Rolen says he needs surgery again on shoulder

 

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Scott Rolen faces a gut-wrenching decision: Have season-ending surgery on his still-ailing left shoulder, or try to play into October far below his best with the team that had the major leagues' best record.

 

The St. Louis Cardinals' All-Star third baseman said Thursday he's been told he has a torn labrum that will require a six-month rehab. He wants to weigh his admittedly dismal options.

 

``I have a chance of being part of something pretty special, or walk around in a sling,'' Rolen said. ``One of the questions is, what's my best chance to win a ring as a St. Louis Cardinal?

 

``It might be not to play, and that's not an easy decision to say: 'I can't help this team, I can hurt this team -- so my best shot at winning a World Series is not to play.'''

 

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ST. LOUIS -- All-Star third baseman Scott Rolen will have surgery on his left shoulder and miss the rest of the season, the St. Louis Cardinals said Sunday.

 

Rolen, 30, has a torn labrum and was told he will need at least six months to rehabilitate it after surgery. He is expected to return sometime during spring training. Had he waited on surgery, he could have missed considerable time in 2006.

 

Cardinals team medical consultant Dr. George Paletta will perform the surgery with assistance from Cincinnati Reds medical supervisor Dr. Timothy Kremchek. A date has not been set, but the surgery is expected to take place this week.

 

Rolen was in a meeting with manager Tony La Russa and neither were available for comment before the Cardinals' game against San Francisco.

 

Rolen missed 67 games this season in two stints on the disabled list after a May 10 collision with Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Hee-Seop Choi. He had surgery three days later, but the shoulder did not get better.

 

Coming off four straight 100-RBI seasons, Rolen was hitting .235 with five homers and 28 RBI in 56 games.

 

That was a far cry from 2004, when Rolen hit .314 with 34 homers and 124 RBI. For his career, he has hit .286 with 226 homers and 831 RBI. He has also won six Gold Gloves.

 

Rolen initially was out a little more than a month after colliding with Choi while running out a grounder and returned June 18. But he struggled noticeably in 26 games, at times screaming in pain when he swung. In 87 at-bats during his return, he hit .205 with no homers and eight RBI.

 

Rolen was still voted to the All-Star game but skipped it to rest his shoulder.

 

Rolen came to the Cardinals from Philadelphia in a midseason trade in 2002, hitting 14 homers in 55 games in helping lead St. Louis to the playoffs. But he was forced out of Game 2 of a first-round series against Arizona when pinch-runner Alex Cintron collided with him, injuring Rolen's left shoulder.

 

Rolen missed the rest of that series and the NL Championship Series against San Francisco.

 

Last season, Rolen hit .310 in the NLCS and drove in the go-ahead run with a homer off Houston's Roger Clemens in Game 7. But he was 0-for-15 in the Cardinals' four-game loss to the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.

 

On Thursday, Rolen told the media of his choices: Wait and see if the shoulder improves enough for him to play, or have surgery and be ready to return early next season.

 

The Cardinals, at 78-45 entering Sunday's game, have baseball's best record. Utility man Abraham Nunez, who has most often subbed at third base, entered the game hitting .302.

 

Rolen met with Kremchek last week to get a second opinion on the injury. Rolen said Kremchek told him surgery was unavoidable, even if he sat out the rest of the season and then rehabbed for several months.

Rolen to undergo season-ending surgery

 

 

 

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Scott Rolen will have surgery on his left shoulder, leaving the St. Louis Cardinals without their All-Star third baseman for the rest of the season.

 

Rolen, 30, has a torn labrum and was told he will need at least six months to rehabilitate it after surgery. He is expected to return by or during spring training. Had he waited on surgery, he could have missed considerable time in 2006.

 

``I didn't really have a decision,'' Rolen said after Sunday's 4-2 loss to San Francisco. ``I know my body. I know my shoulder.

 

``This was the only choice right now.''

 

Manager Tony La Russa said the decision was inevitable after Rolen's shoulder continued to show no improvement more than three months after surgery.

 

``That's a really tough break for him, a tough break for us,'' La Russa said.

 

Rolen said he expects to be back at full strength by spring training. Watching the team go to the playoffs without him is tough, he said, but he said he won't feel left out.

 

``I'm going to be part of it. I'm not going to be playing but I'm going to be part of it,'' he said.