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Rest, daily treatment only remedies for nagging injury 09/10/09 7:13 PM ET

 

NEW YORK -- For Jeremy Hermida's sore oblique to heal, it will take some time. Unfortunately for the Marlins outfielder, there isn't a whole lot of time left in the season.

 

Hermida tweaked his right oblique during an at-bat on Sept. 2 against the Braves. He came out of the game in the sixth inning of an 8-7 Florida win, and he hasn't done any baseball-related activities since.

 

Initially, the injury was termed a strained right intercostal muscle, or an ailment in the rib cage. Hermida says it is more of an oblique issue, just below the ribs. Either way, with discomfort moving his midsection, it makes it difficult to run or hit.

 

So what he's doing now is resting and receiving a lot of treatment each day.

 

"It's one of those injuries that there isn't a whole lot you can do for it," Hermida said. "I've never had something like that happen before. I didn't know if it was a cramp. It kind of died out and I swung, and it grabbed again on me. It tightened up the next couple of days."

 

The Marlins entered Thursday night with 23 games remaining in the season. The injury has kept Hermida out of seven straight starts.

 

With Hermida out, Cameron Maybin has been starting in center field, and Cody Ross has switched from center to right field.

 

Hermida certainly is hopeful to be back this season. It's just a matter of when.

 

"We've done as much as we can for it. It's unfortunately one of those injuries you can't really rush," he said. "It's kind of one of those things where it's kind of like a tweak in the hamstring. Some guys come back in a week. Some guys, it takes a month. There is not really a whole lot we can do. We're pushing it as hard as we can right now. We're trying to get it back as quickly as we can."

 

Hermida has appeared in 128 games, and the left-handed-hitting outfielder is batting .259 with 13 home runs and 47 RBIs.

 

Hermida opened the season in left field, but he's played mostly right field since rookie Chris Coghlan was brought up from Triple-A New Orleans in May.

 

"Unfortunately with an oblique, when you run, you feel it," Hermida said. "When you swing a bat, you feel it. It's one of those things where you try to calm it down as much as you can. As soon as the soreness is out of there, and it's not hurting, we'll pick up the baseball activities. We'll pick that up real quick."

 

Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

 

 

 

 

 

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If this holds up, probably the last we'll see of him in a Marlins uni

Yup, I'd say Hermida is done as a Marlin.

Whatever will we do?

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Bye-bye, Hermi and The Amazin'.

If this holds up, probably the last we'll see of him in a Marlins uni

 

I figured he was gone before this injury.

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If this holds up, probably the last we'll see of him in a Marlins uni

 

I figured he was gone before this injury.

 

I think he just means that we're not going to see him on the field anymore. He's probably getting traded after the season, regardless of the injury, but if he weren't injured, he'd be playing [in some capacity] (and thus we'd see him in a Marlins uni [again]).

"Unfortunately"?

gone....fine by me.....

 

we have the talent and can play around his absence from the line-up......

 

rather see BC and Cody playing in right field......

And so ends the tale of the wasted #1 draft pick.

 

I'll miss Amezaga, though.

You know what this sounds like? Kevin Gregg's injuries :p

 

Doc: "Looks like you might be out for a lil while"

Hermida: "How bad is it doc?"

Doc: "You could be out for the rest of the season."

Hermida: "It's just a bruised thigh..."

Doc: "A very serious bruised thigh"

'Cause of Hermi season's done, now he is so worthless even for trade bait, I think.

 

Maybe Nontender?

If this holds up, probably the last we'll see of him in a Marlins uni

 

I figured he was gone before this injury.

 

I think he just means that we're not going to see him on the field anymore. He's probably getting traded after the season, regardless of the injury, but if he weren't injured, he'd be playing [in some capacity] (and thus we'd see him in a Marlins uni [again]).

Oh I thought he ment if he didn't get injured he'd be here next year. I know he'd be playing if he was healthy.

You know what this sounds like? Kevin Gregg's injuries :p

 

Doc: "Looks like you might be out for a lil while"

Hermida: "How bad is it doc?"

Doc: "You could be out for the rest of the season."

Hermida: "It's just a bruised thigh..."

Doc: "A very serious bruised thigh"

 

 

I lol'ed pretty hard. Reminded me of the old man from Monty Pythons Quest for the Holy Grail from the "Bring out your dead" skit.

'Cause of Hermi season's done, now he is so worthless even for trade bait, I think.

 

Maybe Nontender?

 

I don't think this injury would be serious enough to scare teams off if they really wanted him.

'Cause of Hermi season's done, now he is so worthless even for trade bait, I think.

 

Maybe Nontender?

 

I don't think this injury would be serious enough to scare teams off if they really wanted him.

if any team really wanted him he woulda been gone by now

And so ends the tale of the wasted #1 draft pick.

 

I'll miss Amezaga, though.

 

This is just absurd.

'Cause of Hermi season's done, now he is so worthless even for trade bait, I think.

 

Maybe Nontender?

 

I don't think this injury would be serious enough to scare teams off if they really wanted him.

if any team really wanted him he woulda been gone by now

Not really.

You know what this sounds like? Kevin Gregg's injuries :p

 

Doc: "Looks like you might be out for a lil while"

Hermida: "How bad is it doc?"

Doc: "You could be out for the rest of the season."

Hermida: "It's just a bruised thigh..."

Doc: "A very serious bruised thigh"

 

 

Hahaha

 

It's unfortunate this happened right after the big August he had. Was really hopeful that that would carry into September.

Darn, although I wonder though if since he was on the active roster and the Marlins make it into the post season, does he represent an exclusion to the Sept 1 rule and his roster spot could be filled with a similar player? Maybin came up a day early so it doesn't affect him one way or the other, and I know they changed the rules on roster replacements but theoretically this could be a blessing in disguise (for the marlins not hermida).

 

Not sure, wish I could remember that rule change.

Good riddance, guy who is 4th on our team in OBP and had an .800 OPS over the last month. f*** you, Hermida.

Yeah, I agree he's done as a Marlin, and gets traded/nontendered this winter.

there's no way he's non-tendered. His return might be horrible, but getting something for him is better than getting nothing, and a lot of teams will send some average cost controlled bull pen arm and give him PAs in hope that he turns it around.

Good riddance, guy who is 4th on our team in OBP and had an .800 OPS over the last month. f*** you, Hermida.

 

 

it's amazing how the same people who constantly scream about "small sample size, small sample size" when it's a player they are intent on trashing are happy to do the exact same thing when it makes their boffo point about their fave players.

 

everyone is happy Hermida was on a roll and contributing in August but if you must ignore how he performed for most of the season (May/June/July = .325/.326/.305 OBP, .685/.698/.708 OPS) to make your sarcasm work, let me break the news to you, it doesn't.

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