Wow. Busy day here as everybody gets ready for Friday's chartered flight to Philadelphia. The Blue Jays and Houston Astros are scoreless through three innings, but lots of bidness to report:
Scott Rolen just went into gruesome detail about his finger injury and it doesn't sound like he's going to be back any time soon. Rolen said the pin in his right middle finger will stay in for 14 days and "at that point, it would be pretty speculative" to say when he'll be back.
"He'd rather see me hit before I throw," said Rolen, who suffered a displaced fracture of the finger when[amp]nbsp; he misplayed a grounder hit by Brian Butterfield. Turns out Rolen didn't lose the nail. "We thought the nail was bent up 45 degrees and actually it was the bottom of my finger bent down 45 degrees," he said. "That's the wrong 45 degrees."
Rolen said that the hand specialist in Baltimore who performed the operation, Dr. Thomas Graham gave "a four to six week window for recovery from time of surgery."
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons also informed us today that Matt Stairs has a sore hip and that the team is letting him get his swings in in the minors as a precaution in the slim chance it needs to back-date him on the 15-day disabled list to start the year.
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