Cabrera out a few weeks

[tomdalton22]

According to ESPN.com he is going to be out "a few weeks"

"Cabrera, who received eight stitches to close the bloody wound, told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney Tuesday that the team would re-evaluate him in a week, but he likely will be out at least a couple of weeks. Cabrera's vision is fine, according to the team."

 

[kalinecountry]

Cabrera has non-displaced fracture in orbital bone under right eye. Off for week and will be evaluated.
http://www.blessyouboys.com/2012/3/20/2887267/report-cabrera-to-be-out-approximately-2-weeks
Cabrera to be out approximately 2 weeks.
from blessyouboystigers

 

[kalinecountry]

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120319&content_id=27410802&vkey=news_det&c_id=det
Cabrera has orbital fracture, out at least a week.
Tigers third baseman struck near eye by hard-hit grounder.
from the Tigers official site

A non-displaced fracture of his right orbital floor. Could have been alot worse, surgery, eye/cornea scratched or torn.

 

[johnny2x2x]

So he's likely to miss opening day? That sucks. Glad it wasn't worse though.

 

[wolverinetiger7]

Thank goodness that's all it was. Hope he's better and can start opening day. That will give him 2 weeks but if it takes a little longer, so be it. The replay of that was nasty and very fortunate to just have stitches and as stated no actual eye injury.

 

[turok]

A small and short setback for Miggy being unable to play 3B for the remainder of ST in games, but he probably could as early as this weekend, Tigers' brass is just being understandably very cautious with their prized hitter.

He instead likely will be back to practicing his fielding and hitting by then, and should be back in the lineup when the regular season begins.

 

[kingofdetroit57]

All things considered, this is about the best outcome for what could have been a really serious injury. I think we'll see him to start the season.

 

[Mitchrapp]

They say a couple weeks and Tom writes a few weeks, lol. Come on man.

 

[manchild98]

No way he isn't starting on opening day.

 

[turok]

If Miggy does not play until the first game of the Tigers' regular season, which is Thursday, April 5th, which also happens to be Opening Day @ CoPa vs the Red Sox, including today would be 16 days from now, which would be a bit more than a couple and less than several weeks, so within a few weeks would be more accurate.

 

[Mitchrapp]

The article says two weeks so why infer that to a few?

 

[Thumb]

Mitch[/color]]The article says two weeks so why infer that to a few?

Is there a defined amount that explains a few? Or at least a scale that lets us know how far off a "few" is from a "couple"?

Jesus, talk about nit picking over the tiniest little detail.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Couple 2, few 3 and several 7. Not sure what covers the 4-6 range. Lol. Bite me, I was just mentioning it.

 

[kalinecountry]

We will know more in a week from now, after he not to have any baseball activity. That is when he will be re-evaluated. At that time it could be another week, 2 weeks, and hopefully not longer.
In a week or two, if things don't look good, they could even have Cabrera placed on the DL retroactive to a date? (in one new story on it all).
This is of course a worse case scenario on something that could have been much much worse than it is.

 

[jdeb]

Looks like Inge may stick with the team now. That guy has more lives than a cat.