Taking Things For Granted

Take a look at your hand and focus on your middle fingers, bend your finger at the knuckle. Does your top joint bend as well? How does it feel if you try and keep the tip of your finger straight?

Some of you are probably wondering why I am talking about your hand and not talking about baseball. Today, the Indians made the announcement that prospect Adam Miller may have to have another surgery on his finger and this time it could end his career at the age of 24. Miller has been plagued with a hand injury and last season had surgery. Last years surgery was to seal a porus hole and to repair a pulley ligament. This surgery is what caused him to lose motion in the tip of his finger.

Miller has been sidelined already this spring training due to the middle finger. He threw at sprinng training but he had no control over his pitches. When pitching, the last finger to touch the baseball is the middle finger and without him being able to bend at the tip of the is causing him to lose control.

So what is next for Miller? Athletic trainer Lonnie Soloff says they are going to continue to monitor his control. If he is unable to gain control back, in the next 10 days,  he will have to have another surgery which will cause him to end this season and possibly his career. The surgery he will have is a high risk surgery that will take a tendon from his wrist and replace 2 pulley ligaments in his finger. The reason he is being monitored for only 10 days is due to the fact that the longer he waits, the less effective the surgery will be.

Miller was ranked as a #1 prospect for the Indians for the past few years. He was orginially a starter, but was moved to the bullpen in the 2008 season before the injury.

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