I've been hearing this all season. At some point we've got to wrap our heads around the fact that they'll be hanging around all year.
I say August-September because I think that's when we will finally be relatively healthy with the key players having had enough time to recover their skills. It's a miracle in some ways that we are as close as we are to the Braves with the minor-league lineups we've had to put out on the field. The one thing that was keeping us in contention was starting pitching, and then, just as the injured players started returning, we lose two-fifths of our starting rotation.
I don't expect us to have everyone back performing at 100% at any point this season, but I do expect it to be a more reasonable injury list. When we played Atlanta at the start of this month, I looked at their injured list vs. ours -- it was ridiculous. It still is, though the discrepancy is not quite as huge.
Let's see how it goes if and when that evens out. Of course, there are those on this site who believe that will never happen because ...Lerners.
(BTW, I don't like to second-guess Rizzo, realizing he knows baseball and I don't. But I do wish he would come up with a catcher who had just mediocre batting skills.)
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