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Originally Posted by sharknut
In his last spring training start, Elliott tore his UCL and is out for the year. He hadn't been injury prone, this was his first trip to the DL in 8 years. He has 2 years at $1.1 million a year after this season, hopefully he can come back.
He was our ace, he led the NL in ERA last year. Our trade for Andy Hawkins looks like a very important move. He basically replaces Elliott as we were going to move our 5th starter Mike Morgan back to the pen, but he will fill the 5th starter role again, at least to start the season.
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And now Hawkins is out for 6 weeks. We are 17-9, but the Reds are 19-7 and we are without our top 2 arms. Going to move Willie Hernandez back to the starting staff. We promoted our top prospect, 20 year old Sterling Hitchcock to AAA after a 6-0 start at AA. I hope we don't have to call him up , but 1 more starter going down may make that necessary.