Here's the exact transcript of my question and the answer. I know many of you have wondered about that since that time, so I did my job. Here's what he said.
"I meant to ask you on Friday and obviously the damage didn’t happen in the game, but with the forearm being a potential UCL indicator, how close were you to scratching him after he felt that in the bullpen?"
“I don’t know that answer. How about that? He warmed up and I didn’t hear anything, on Friday I have to walk down and turn in the lineup, so I missed the last probably 6 minutes, 5 minutes of the warmup and I came down and Laff told me that a few pitches he felt some tightness in his forearm, went back and the way A&M’s dugout is, there’s a little back area where the restroom and training table and he was sitting on there and Josh Porter, our trainer, and I went up to him and what’s then deal and he said of the 30-plus pitches or so I felt some tightness. Any pain? No pain. What do you want to do? We can scratch you right now and get Diamond ready, and he said ‘no, I feel good. I don’t have any pain and want to go out there. We made a plan that at any point he didn’t think he could continue or if he hurt, he would look in and give me a signal and I would walk out immediately, and he never got that. It’s just one of those things, and I don’t know what you’re getting at, Chase, but it’s one of those things that isn’t cut and dry or black or white, I don’t think anyone will ever know or what happened or where it happened. Even doctors can’t pinpoint that. I just think it is what it is, and it’s a common injury. It’s a shame, but fortunately for him it’s an injury you usually come back highly successful from.”
"I meant to ask you on Friday and obviously the damage didn’t happen in the game, but with the forearm being a potential UCL indicator, how close were you to scratching him after he felt that in the bullpen?"
“I don’t know that answer. How about that? He warmed up and I didn’t hear anything, on Friday I have to walk down and turn in the lineup, so I missed the last probably 6 minutes, 5 minutes of the warmup and I came down and Laff told me that a few pitches he felt some tightness in his forearm, went back and the way A&M’s dugout is, there’s a little back area where the restroom and training table and he was sitting on there and Josh Porter, our trainer, and I went up to him and what’s then deal and he said of the 30-plus pitches or so I felt some tightness. Any pain? No pain. What do you want to do? We can scratch you right now and get Diamond ready, and he said ‘no, I feel good. I don’t have any pain and want to go out there. We made a plan that at any point he didn’t think he could continue or if he hurt, he would look in and give me a signal and I would walk out immediately, and he never got that. It’s just one of those things, and I don’t know what you’re getting at, Chase, but it’s one of those things that isn’t cut and dry or black or white, I don’t think anyone will ever know or what happened or where it happened. Even doctors can’t pinpoint that. I just think it is what it is, and it’s a common injury. It’s a shame, but fortunately for him it’s an injury you usually come back highly successful from.”
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