Sometimes I do often wonder if bad news just follows the Pirates around all the time. This time the news is that Robbie Grossman broke his hamate bone. If that bone in your hand sounds familiar, it should. Pedro Alvarez, Starling Marte, and Jose Tabata have all had issues with the hamate bone.
Breaking the bone typically saps a player's power, as it is usually the bottom hand, when gripping the bat, that the injury occurs in. With Grossman, a switch hitter, he hurt his right hand, meaning that all that great progress with the switch hitting will slow.
It will be a couple of weeks until he is able to swing a bat, but the one big question about Grossman going into this upcoming season was going to center around power. Now this injury will more than likely hurt all power production in the coming year.
Hopefully Grossman is able to take this in stride, understand that the power might not be there, and continue to focus on controlling the zone. Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise, as we would not want him to turn into some sort of hacker, trying to hit the ball out of the park everywhere. Perhaps it will allow for more of a focus in the smaller things.
You still have got to shake your head as there seemingly is a black cloud above the Pirates. Sure the management over the years has made tons of mistakes, there also seems to be a good deal of rotten luck.
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