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Projo SoxTalk: Why Beckett's injury may be worse than you think

Today on Projo SoxTalk, sports editor Art Martone and baseball writer Joe McDonald discuss yesterday's amazing game at Fenway Park. Click here to listen to the full audio file. Joe spoke today to a professional athletic trainer who had an alarming assessment about the type of injury that Josh Beckett apparently has. Of course, the Red Sox are not yet saying how long Beckett will be sidelined, or even if he will miss his next scheduled start on Friday against Atlanta. Here's what Joe had to say on Beckett today:

"Beckett was quite disappointed. ... He admitted that he's had this problem before, when he was with Florida. It's not necessarily a blister; the skin on the finger just tears. Both Beckett and Terry Francona said yesterday that in the big picture, that's a good thing, because a blister could be worse. But I actually spoke with a professional athletic trainer today, and asked him if he's ever seen something like that. And he said that he has, and a lot of times football players get it. ... and he admitted that it actually takes longer for something that beckett has now to heal than a blister would. And I asked him if he thought a pitcher would be able to make his next start in five days with something like this, and he said no, there's no way that he's going to be able to start his next game. In football players sometimes it can be up to a month where something has actually healed where that skin was torn off."

We'll have to see.

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 1:33 PM to Martone , McDonald | Permalink