A's Prospect Dusty Coleman Was Playing Injured

by nobodyinparticular on Oct 18, 2009 9:52 AM PDT

According to this article (LINK) Dusty Coleman played through the majority of the season with a broken wrist. For those of you needing a little background on Coleman, he was drafted out of Wichita State in the 28th round of the 2008 draft. He was given overslot money and proceeded to hit will in short-season Vancouver. As he started the 2009 season in the very pitcher-friendly Kane County, he put up a wOBA of .413 in April and then .386 in May. From there, his production seriously tailed off with stats so low they would make Yuniesky Betancourt blush.

A move up to high-A Stockton did not help matters. In August, he was shut down to have surgery to fix a broken bone in his wrist. Just recently an article in Argus Leader came out with quotes from Coleman who said that his injury came in May--he had been playing with a broken wrist for the majority of the season.

This news makes me frustrated that it took this long for the A's farm system to find out about an injury and look into it. But this also gives me hope that Coleman might be closer to his performances from the first two months rather than the final 3 months of his season. This may give the A's another legitimate SS prospect coming up the ranks. What do you guys think about this? What are your reactions?

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Has to improve his standing, I'd say

It’s not the sort of injury which would tend to recur, reducing his value. And it totally explains the confounding disappearance of all power from his game in the last two months of the season.

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by PaulThomas on Oct 18, 2009 10:19 AM PDT reply actions

If he is in fact a real prospect again, then they'd seem to have two options for Stockton

in him and Green and no one for Midland….unless they leave Horton there and use Petit or a retread in Sacramento. I’d think Green has a chance to start at Midland depending on how he does in the spring.

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by WaddellCanseco on Oct 18, 2009 10:36 AM PDT reply actions

nobodyinparticular, I've edited the title

to reflect that it’s not an injury that just happened yesterday (which is what I assumed you were reporting when I saw the title “A’s Prospect Dusty Coleman Injured”). Hope you don’t mind the interference, but since AN is a source of news for a lot of fans I want to make sure we don’t risk accidentally misinforming.

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by Nico on Oct 18, 2009 11:16 AM PDT reply actions

Yeah, I thought it was going to be something new instead of what it was

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by Flashfire on Oct 18, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions

For sure

Yeah, I actually appreciate the edit. I didn’t mean it to be misleading at all. Thanks for that.

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by nobodyinparticular on Oct 18, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Good Prospect

Hopefully his wrist heals without complications. He and Grant Green give the A’s sompe pretty decent shortstop prospects.

by StewCrew on Oct 18, 2009 1:51 PM PDT reply actions

2010 SS assignments

I think Horton at Sac, Green at Midland, Coleman at Stockton.

by redtopcowboy on Oct 18, 2009 2:17 PM PDT reply actions

That would be cool...it would mean Green made a great spring impression. My more conservative

expectation is Wimberly at Midland and Green at Stockton, with Coleman at 2B in Stockton.

It's not the results, it's how you look going about those results -- Tim McCarver

by WaddellCanseco on Oct 19, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions

THE A'S ORGANIZATION MISSED AND/OR MISDIAGNOSED AN INJURY!?!??!

NEVAR!

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by mikev on Oct 18, 2009 9:51 PM PDT reply actions

Eh

I see this more of a case like Dan Meyer than anything else. Coleman gutted through an injury he probably shouldn’t have, trying to make an impression. Let’s hope the impression he does make is different from Meyer’s fate.

I lay this at Coleman’s feet more than the A’s medical staff.

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by vignette17 on Oct 19, 2009 1:52 AM PDT up reply actions

Please keep your facts and logic away from my shitty jokes.

Thanks <3

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by mikev on Oct 19, 2009 7:39 AM PDT up reply actions

When you put it that way....

Larry Davis strikes again!!!!!! Sacrifice more chickens!

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by vignette17 on Oct 19, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions

K, chickens at second and third and one out.

Now what?

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by Nico on Oct 19, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions