When Yu Darvish started getting bad reports about his elbow, I saw a number of articles about how this injury was devastating to the team. Jamey Newberg, however, notes that the injury has not been devastating at all:

As you’d expect, Jon Daniels set the tone with his public comments in the immediate aftermath of last Saturday’s news, and Jeff Banister’s message was consistent with his career and his attitude — we will pick our brother up and fire off the ball as a team — but it was Darvish’s own attitude that made arguably the biggest statement.

“I’m very optimistic,” Darvish said at his Friday press conference at which it was announced he would have “Tommy John” ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery. “I have no worries whatsoever.”

“I have no negative feelings,” the 28-year-old added. “Nothing positive comes out of that.”

“I’m going to take this time to learn a lot. . . . There is a lot I can do to make myself better. And maybe what I learn I can pass onto other players.”

Darvish is staying with the team, throwing left handed, working the pitching machine. There are a number of players on the Rangers returning from injuries and their attitude remains upbeat:

Last Monday, in the bottom of the fifth inning of an exhibition game against Oakland, with both teams having already begun making substitutions — the stage of the game being relevant since Fielder knew he was about to come out of the game himself — he stood in with two outs and Hanser Alberto on third. Fielder shot a ground ball back toward the box and pitcher Jesse Chavez got a glove on it, slowing it down enough for Marcus Semien to field the ball and make the throw to first.

Fielder beat it out, keeping the inning from ending and allowing Alberto to score in a basically meaningless moment in an ultimately meaningless spring training game.

Banister promptly sent Josh Morgan out to pinch-run for Fielder, and the reception Fielder got from his teammates as he reentered the dugout matched what was going on in the crowd of 5,500 that had just watched the 275-pounder leg out a two-out infield grounder.

Darvish’s injury may very well cost the Rangers a shot at the playoffs, but no one in the organization is acting like that is true.

I bring this up because the Red Sox may have lost their number one starter, Joe Kelly. Of course, the Red Sox really don’t have a number one starter, they have five number three starters. So in essence, Boston lost one of their best starters. I’m not sure what is better, pitching your 2-3-4-5-6 pitchers, or 3-3-3-3-6. No one is going to see the Joe Kelly injury as devastating.

In an also not devasting injury, the Mets lose Zack Wheeler to Tommy John surgery. The Mets do have some pitching depth, however.