Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 09, 2007
Hampton Gone

Mike Hampton won't pitch in 2007:

Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Hampton will have surgery on his left elbow on Tuesday in New York and will miss the 2007 season, the team announced Monday.

Hampton, who had Tommy John surgery on his left elbow performed by Dr. Dave Altchek on Sept. 26, 2005, visited Altchek Monday in New York after experiencing more pain in the elbow.

Altchek found that Hampton, 34, has a torn flexor tendon in the elbow.

I'm not sure how much Atlanta was really depending on Mike, but now they know to move on.


Posted by David Pinto at 05:37 PM | Injuries | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Mike Hampton makes me wish more pitchers could be like Carl Pavano.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 9, 2007 07:05 PM

You think Juan Gonzalez reads news reports about how Mike Hampton is still owed $30 million and thinks, "There but for Comerica Park go I?"

On any list of the worst contacts in baseball history, I have a hard time seeing the Hampton deal ranking any lower than third. It's one of those rare contracts that has it all: it was for too many years, at too much money per year, for a player who was not expected to be worth the money at the time, and who has proven to be worth even less than he was expected to be worth since. What contract was possibly a worse idea than this one?

Posted by: cwp at April 9, 2007 10:13 PM

What contract was possibly a worse idea than this one?

See Zito, Barry. Pretty much meets all the criteria you stated.

Posted by: paul zummo at April 9, 2007 11:41 PM

Chan Ho Park and Darren Dreifort come imediately to mind. Todd Helton, by the time his contract is up at the end of 2011!! will be up there as well.

Posted by: david at April 10, 2007 12:23 AM

I thought about that one, but I think we can't say for sure about the last category just yet. After all, he's only made two starts for the Giants so far, and I think he was better than Hampton to start with (though I'm prepared to be proven wrong).

Of course, I said when the deal was signed and will say again: there's a very good chance that six years from now we'll be having a serious debate over whether the Zito deal was worse than the Hampton deal.

Posted by: cwp at April 10, 2007 12:24 AM

now i'm glad that hampton wanted to leave the astros so much

Posted by: lisa gray at April 10, 2007 12:50 PM
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