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March 17, 2015 6:00 am
We'll stay young, go pitching.
Every day until Opening Day, Baseball Prospectus authors will preview two teams—one from the AL, one from the NL—identifying strategies those teams employ to gain an advantage. Today: the cash-strapped Rays and cash-rich Dodgers.
Previous team previews: Giants | Royals
March 6, 2014 6:00 am
A close look at the pitcher-turned-writer's third (and best) book.
Bigger Than The Game (Citadel, 320 pp.), is Dirk Hayhurst's third book. (Wild Pitches, a compendium of outtakes and reprints, is not quite a fourth.) It is easily his best. Bigger Than The Game has far more depth and grip than his first two books, The Bullpen Gospels and Out of My League, which are entertaining but sometimes shaggy rambles despite occasionally serious content. Now that Hayhurst has taken off his baseball glove, he has also taken off his gloves as a writer, perhaps because his retirement from playing has liberated him from the need to protect his employment status. He hits the truth harder, and with more impact. Perhaps the greatest respect you can pay to Bigger Than The Game is to say that it is a very good baseball book even though it contains very little baseball. The majority of it takes place where Hayhurst has always been most at home: in his mind, not on the mound.
May 1, 2013 9:05 am
Triple-A impressions of Jonathan Schoop, Nick Castellanos, and Hak-Ju Lee.
Jonathan Schoop, Orioles
On April 12 at Durham, he ranged up the middle for a grounder but didn't quite have the fluidity to hang onto the ball; it went off his glove for a single. Not long after that play, he didn't use his feet to go back on a soft liner over his head, and as a result couldn't attempt a leaping catch of it—another single. In game one of a doubleheader on April 20, with a runner on first, he fielded a Rich Thompson grounder as he moved toward second base and tried to start an unassisted double play. But his footwork was a bit awkward; he got a little twisted approaching the second base bag as Tim Beckham bore down on him, and then he threw the ball way over his first baseman's head and into the stands, advancing Thompson to second.
April 24, 2013 5:00 am
Detailed takes on Jake Odorizzi, Ernesto Mejia, and Jared Mitchell.
This is the first installment in a regular series of detailed player evaluations from Triple-A (east of the Mississippi).
Jake Odorizzi, Rays. It's easy to misperceive Odorizzi as a second-tier prospect, and not only because he is overshadowed by Wil Myers, the big cookie in the prize package the Rays received from Kansas City for James Shields. It's also easy to short Odorizzi because he isn't a power arm. He essentially takes the Tampa Bay system baton from Alex Cobb, who got it from Jeremy Hellickson. All three of these pitchers work most comfortably around 90 mph and rely on location and variation; all are soft-spoken (two are Midwesterners); and all are fiercer competitors than they might seem at first.
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April 10, 2013 5:00 am
Might Austin Jackson have a Trout-like season ahead of him?
When making my choices for last week's pre-season BP staff predictions, I nearly included the Tigers' Austin Jackson on my MVP ballot. I settled on safer choices: Miguel Cabrera, Evan Longoria, and Mike Trout, who took three of the top four spots in the cumulative staff voting results.
Jackson, though, while not an obvious candidate, is at least a defensible choice by one important advanced metric. He finished tied for 10th in BWARP last year at 5.8. Yet although 12 of the top 16 players in BWARP from 2012 appear on BP's 2013 pre-season MVP ballot this year, Jackson is not among them. Perhaps this has to do with PECOTA, which projects his WARP to fall to 2.7 WARP, making him less than half as valuable, overall, as he was last year. He is also projected for a big drop in TAv—over 40 points' worth. But since PECOTA makes a strong case against A-Jax for 2013, let's make the MVP case for one of the most valuable players in baseball last year. The ultimate goal here, though, is to consider the complexities of predicting.
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March 26, 2013 10:17 am
The second installment of a five-part series on the pressing questions confronting each team in 2013.
In the week leading up to Opening Day, we're asking and answering three questions about each team in a five-part series ordered by descending Playoff Pct from the Playoff Odds Report. Today, we continue with a look at the group of six teams with the highest odds of winning at least a Wild Card. As a reminder, you can find links to our preview podcasts for each team here.
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March 13, 2013 5:00 am
Which players from this year's crop of AL spring training invitees could catch on?
In this second, American League installment of the two-part notable minor-league free agent signee series (the National League is here), the discoveries were less player-specific: for numerous teams, it was hard to make a strong case for a single candidate. Instead, two other revelations: First, you have to act fast on these marginal players, because they can be gone for good before the season even starts. One candidate from the National League article two weeks ago, injury comeback returnee Kelvim Escobar, has already been released by the Brewers, due to yet another injury. Many other players, especially former major-leaguers, have opt-out clauses that activate on March 26. As a result, some of the considerations below are more theoretical than actually predictive.
Secondly, this exercise has manufactured an opposition of sorts to a position I've been espousing for a while about replacement-level talent. Scanning the fringe ranks for overlooked gems, or comparing projected major-league rosters to projected Triple-A rosters, you discover that there really are very few players in the lower level who seem like they'd actually be better than the guys ahead of them on the depth chart (would you really rather have Brian Bixler than Justin Turner?). And the difference is often significant.
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February 27, 2013 7:15 am
Which members of this year's crop of spring training invitees could catch on and make an impact in the majors?
It's that time of year: Grapefruit and Cactus. (I feel a margarita-like cocktail coming on.) It's the one time of the season when ballplayers wear jersey numbers like 75. When millionaires of otherwise upright goodwill and equanimity secretly hope for other millionaires to get hurt. When major-league camp invitations go out to players like the legendary Craig Albernaz, who has played in parts of the last six seasons for the Rays' Double-A affiliate and has a career OPS of .545—somebody has to catch all those pitchers. When former big-league regulars, now on minor-league deals and looking around at all the prospects who play the same position, start counting the days until the opt-out clauses in their contracts arrive.
In other words, it's time to sift through those minor-league free agent signees and find the one in each organization likeliest to make an impact in the majors this season.
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February 6, 2013 5:00 am
What determines whether borderline big leaguers languish in Triple-A obscurity or play a part on a major-league team's 25-man?
As I send the mic out the park like Reggie Jackson
My next two columns are going to identify minor-league free agent signees, one from each major-league organization, who stand a good chance of helping their big-league clubs this season. (See today's Lineup Card for others' NRI picks.) Most of these players have been in the majors before, and you'll probably recognize many if not all of the names.
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January 16, 2013 5:00 am
An exegesis of Cage Rat, the Yankee hitting coach's treatise on being handy with a bat.
A ballplayer I know told me recently that Kevin Long's Cage Rat (Ecco, 2011, 198 pp.) was a great book, so I went and got it from the library. I wasn't at all surprised to discover that, whatever the reasons why the ballplayer called it a great book, they have nothing to do with the quality of the writing. By "great," it's necessary to keep in mind that what's meant isn't really Ulysses-great; people throw the word "great" around to mean things like enjoyable, not a waste of time, even serviceable. The word is a tool to denote general positivity.
Cage Rat is made of strictly functional, ugly prose—it's often barely functional at all, in fact—rendered by as-told-to specialist Glen Waggoner in self-consciously vernacular style. Or maybe "vernacular": it often sounds stilted, like a writer trying to sound like how he thinks someone like Long talks. That sections of it may in fact be transcriptions of actual Long speech is immaterial. It's all clichés and received ideas cut into ribbons and reassembled. It's probably exactly what all parties involved wanted.
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January 9, 2013 5:00 am
How one form of music most mirrors baseball.
Across the nation every sports bar turns the pregame on
Compulsive formalists can't fabricate meaning--by which I mean nothing deeper than extrinsic interest--without a frame.
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December 26, 2012 5:00 am
And the best stories begin with more modest tools.
At the Trade Show during the Winter Meetings in Nashville, I was talking to a well-known baseball talent evaluator who writes for another publication. I can't quite remember the exact subject of the conversation. We may have been talking about some college players he was high on. We may have been talking about Joe Dillon, who was standing a few feet away from us behind the D-Bat table (he's now part of that company). Dillon was a classic career toiler, amassing over 4,000 minor-league plate appearances, scraping together a couple hundred big-league at-bats over four seasons, doing a stint in Japan, and losing an entire season—the one that would probably have given him his best chance at establishing himself in the majors—to injury (he officially retired). Only will and determination got him back in the game and another decade in uniform.
With Dillon and all he represents lurking behind us, the general subject of prospects—which was certainly the matter at hand, since that is always the only and ultimate topic of conversation when you're talking with a talent evaluator—took on a somewhat fraught condition. The talk had probably moved into Guys Who Make The Most Out Of Their Limited Abilities, or perhaps into The Mental Aspect Of The Game and how that is as important as physical tools, or maybe it was more specifically about a particular player who could, would, or did manage to succeed despite a limited apparent ceiling. What I do recall, very distinctly, was the shot this evaluator fired across the bow. Actually, it was more like a smart bomb, a way to end the conversation right then and there with a strongly-worded salvo.
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Anyone who read the young-adult trilogy, has been anticipating two things for the big-screen adaptation: How the hell are they going to show kids killing kids in a reality TV fight-to-the-death competition, and how bizarre are the citizens of the Capitol going to look? Enter Effie Trinket. "Because this movie is set in the future, we didn't have real guidelines," Flowers says. "It's not like doing a period piece from the '30s or '40s where styles have already been worn. Instead we took the history of hair and moved it into what we think it might have evolved into."
Flowers decided that the inhabitants of the Capitol would all have the foundation of a classic shape that resonated Old Hollywood and wealth that was well-cut and had a definitive structure. "Effie was very much constructed like this — a lot of emphasis on a classic finger-waved bob — but with features and wild colors that brought it into the future."
However, for the Reaping, in which the character came to the poverty-stricken District 12 to choose tributes for the Hunger Games, Flowers wanted her look to be a bit more solemn, if that's even possible. "In the book, her hair was pink, but you can get 20 shades of pink," Flowers notes. "We chose a very light, soft, pastel palette for Effie to start. We couldn't be too happy and too bright at the Reaping or the audience wouldn't take it seriously. This was the first time they'd see anyone from the Capitol."
But Effie — like all the wealthy citizens of the Capitol — got much brighter once she returned home. What Flowers focused on most was that juxtaposition between the contemporary-classic style of the hair and the ultra-modern hues and textures. "We incorporated curly afro hair between finger waves and fuzzy hair that was back-brushed to give an all-around intriguing look," she says. "We wanted viewers to see how strange these people were but we also wanted them to believe it and take it seriously, so it couldn't be out of Star Trek. Everything had to look couture. Like in the real world, these men and women were classic but would sometimes intermix other periods and incorporate different trends into their style."
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Would he be a tall point guard?
You don't see the difference in formations? Last night, they used the jumbo package with Donald, but before then he ever hardly ran out of it. A lot of his runs were out of the shotgun, something I don't think I've ever seen Richardson getting. Richardson's playcalling has been between the tackles on runs. Brown gets some variations of a stretch play.
There are HUGE differences, before last night, about how they were using each back.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
There are a lot of similiarites between him and Nate Davis, who played QB at Ball St a few years ago. Nate was one of the best basketball players I ever played with. Great passing ability, and he was a little bit shorter than Luck but still had that wide body with sneaky athleticism. Nate could also shoot lights out from anywhere inside the halfcourt line. (If you don't believe me, just google the ohio all time HS scorers)
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
I've seen them run Trent out of single back sets, but not running plays out of the shotgun. I may very well be wrong, I just don't remember any. I know Brown gets quite a few out of shotgun though.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
San Diego: Richardson 1, Brown 0
Denver: Richardson 5, Brown 3
Houston: Richardson 0, Brown 3
St. Louis: Richardson 1, Brown 0
Tennessee: Richardson 0, Brown 0
Richardson had 45 carries over that time to Brown's 36 and 7 shotgun runs to Brown's 6. That's pretty close to identical.
Going to their splits, Brown has 19 of his 55 runs graded as middle runs which is the most of any type of run for him. That's where he's been most effective averaging 7.5 yards per carry. Richardson's splits are messed up (presumably because of the trade) so I can't see how his ratio stacks up. But Brown has been running inside the tackles a pretty good amount.
Where are you coming up with this? Not that I don't believe it, just that being that specific it sounds like someone has tracked it, or you've broken down film on it.
Stampedeblue wrote an article, which I've quoted a couple times, where he broke down film on running situations, and he came up with what I'm saying too.
http://www.stampedeblue.com/2013/11/...with-the-coltsWhy is it just Richardson Struggling Running the Ball?
One reason is that Brown looks more comfortable. He looks more decisive and seems to stay more "north and south" instead of "east and west", like Richardson has tried to do at times. Essentially, this means that Brown doesn't wait as long to cut it upfield as Richardson does. Brown is also quicker off the cut and accelerates faster than Richardson. Donald Brown is having a tremendous year after having a dismal first few in Indy, and he has been good enough this year that not only do I think the Colts will re-sign him at the end of the year, but I think it would be a good move - something I never thought I would think coming into the season. We can't ignore the fact that Donald Brown is having a really good year and that is attributed to a variety of factors, including (but not limited to) the fact he hasn't had to shoulder the whole load, improved vision and decisiveness, and an increased comfort level.
All of that said, we haven't hit on the main reason for Brown having so much success while Richardson isn't, and this may be the biggest issue that no one is talking about: the playcalling.
It has become somewhat popular to criticize offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton this year, and a lot of it has been justified, but almost no one is talking about this aspect of it. I think that Richardson is actually doing exactly what should be expected of him given the play calls.
I mentioned earlier that almost all of Richardson's runs are straight up the middle. The Colts don't really hide it - they often run in obvious run situations and in obvious run formations - and instead just try to overpower the defense. They just hand it off to Richardson and tell him to run straight up the middle, with the little variance often coming from Richardson bouncing a designed run up the middle outside.
The truth is this: Trent Richardson is a very good short yardage back. Both of his touchdowns this year have been 1-yard scores, and he has done a good job in the other short yardage situations they have given him the ball in. It is probably his biggest strength and he has certainly done well there so far. Here's the problem, though: the Colts are treating most Richardson runs the same way, regardless of the situation. Lining up in a run formation when the defense knows it will probably be a run and then just pounding the football up the middle? That's what you do in short yardage - when you need 3 yards or less. They are essentially running a short yardage running game no matter where they are on the field and no matter how long it is to the first down, and the results have been about what you would expect from a short yardage run game - 3 yards per carry.
This also answers perhaps the two biggest objections to the offensive line failures being to blame for Richardson's struggles: 1) why is Donald Brown doing so well then? and 2) why did Richardson look so much better with the Browns when they had a bad line too - perhaps even worse?
Here's the answers to those two questions:
1) When Donald Brown is in the game, the Colts often are either in a passing situation or a passing formation - at least much more often than when Richardson is in the game. Quite a few of Brown's runs have come out of the shotgun and quite a few of his runs have been when defenses were expecting pass. That is in stark opposition to Trent Richardson, who has gotten most of his handoffs while Luck was under center and quite a few of them came when the defense was expecting pass. While not taking anything away from Donald Brown, a lot of his runs have been made possible because Pep Hamilton mixed up the formations and play calling a bit. He hasn't seemed to do that near as often when Richardson is in the game.
2) After watching tape on Richardson in Indy and seeing the offensive line struggle so much, I too wondered how he rushed for 950 yards and averaged 3.6 yards per carry last year for Cleveland playing behind an offensive line that is just as bad as the Colts's line. It was evident just by watching film of the Browns with Richardson (for the first two games this year, too) that they mixed it up a lot more. It wasn't always the best play calling but they still varied in their calls much more than the Colts have and they ran Richardson outside a ton more than the Colts have. They pitched the ball outside to him numerous times in the games I watched a bit of and they helped mask the problem of a bad offensive line by not running directly up the middle of it every single play.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
ESPN's play by play tracks when a team is in the shotgun formation which is where I drew the shotgun runs per game from. The splits are from his ESPN player page where it breaks down runs by down and distance, by play direction, by field position, etc.
I'm guessing if you went further back to the games where Richardson had just been acquired that you would get a different story. Brown was playing more of a change of pace guy role back then (I would say 3rd down back, but the vast majority of his runs and success have come on 1st and 2nd down). The Colts have played 3 games since that article was written which is probably where the disconnect is coming from. I would mostly agree with the article that after running a couple of pitch plays for him against the Jaguars, the Colts basically ran Richardson up the middle for 2-3 games in a row. Since the bye, it's been more varied for both Brown and Richardson, but it's been extremely hard to isolate because the Colts have abandoned the running game so early in a couple of those games.
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Look at the push and the holes on those plays. There's rarely times when defenders get into the backfield and hit Brown before the line of scrimmage. Conversely, that's about all TRich sees --- handoff and then 2 defenders flying at him, having already popped the bubble.
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
BBS at Stampede Blue is such a clown. The site is a tremendous source of information and I read it daily, but the guy clearly goes off of the deep end so that he can get page hits. I wish Josh Wilson wrote all of the articles.
From BBS today:
I don't like their make-up.
I don't like the mentality.
I don't like their soft play.
I don't like their coaching.
I just don't like them.
What a clown. Yeah, I don't like the slow starts either. We're going to get bounced out of the first round if we don't fix them. But for Christ's sake, two of the slow starts were on the road against division teams that were making a last ditch effort to save their playoff chances. Houston and Tennessee always treat the Colts coming to town as if it's the Super Bowl. It was that way during the Manning era and it's going to continue to be that way with Luck. And heck, we lost multiple road division games in the Manning era (0-3 in the championship year), yet we are 3-0 against those teams this year on the road. Road division games are always tough. Thus, we knew that these teams were going to come out hot with their fans behind them. But we were able to persevere and win. Now the massacre against St. Louis was inexcusable, but sometimes that kind of stuff happens in the NFL. It's not as if we never got blown out in the Manning era. This is a league of prideful professionals.
We're 7-3 and are going to freaking win the division with our second year quarterback. We've lost a solid young TE, our LG who we paid big money for as a FA, two very solid running backs, and our HOF WR who was our last offensive anchor to the glory days and acted as as security blanket for our young QB. Yet we just keep winning. It may be ugly at times, but we usually find a way to win and that's better than losing. I understand that there is plenty that needs fixing if we really want to make noise in the playoffs, but let's just sit back for a moment and appreciate what this team has accomplished this season. It just boggles my mind how a Colts blogger say that they don't like a team that has shown so much toughness by beating elite opponents and overcoming obstacles to win tough games. That just reeks of being a "shock jock".
I agree he's doing it on some level for shock value and I agree on some points however I'll take it over Kravitz's double standard. I mean him telling fans not to be concerned. Really? I don't recall him saying this when Dungy/Manning were here.
I mean I feel this team is missing something even despite the injuries but at this point the most you can ask is that they win the division that's all we can control and so far so good.
I agree that there is certainly some big stuff to be concerned about as far as making a deep playoff run is concerned. But to say that you "don't like them"......that's just a bit ridiculous, IMHO. This team has battled brutal injuries, yet is 7-3 and will win the division with a second year quarterback. With the incredible wins they've had this year, they've given us all we can ask for.
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That part was OTT but I can understand being frustrated with this team. With these slow starts and then having to come back and win sure it makes things more interesting. But its also not going to work every game.
The team needs to learn to adjust in that regard they don't appear to now of course nobody is complaining that much since we're 7-3 and not 3-7 right now. But we could've been if we didn't have these type of comebacks.
For a team that Irsay doesn't want to live and die by a QB it seems that history is repeating itself here.
If we didn't have Andrew Luck what record would this team have right now?
Probably not a very good one. This guy is beyond special. I love hearing the story about him giving the team a pep talk at halftime. This guy clearly has a ton of clout in the locker room and the players respect him as if he is a 10 year vet. When he talks, you listen because you know he is going to put you in a chance to win.
I hate the slow starts too. Like I said, we'll get burned in the playoffs if we start out slow. But part of the reason for the slow start on the offensive side of the ball is because of the loss of Reggie. Our offense is just severely weakened without him and there is just no way to replace him. I know that lots of teams have suffered brutal injuries this year and I don't expect anyone to send us sympathy cards, but the fact is that this offense has been decimated with injuries with the Wayne one being the tipping point. We really only have two good receiving options right now in Hilton and Fleener. Would this team be starting so painfully slow if it had Wayne, Allen, Bradhsaw, and Ballard? Probably not.
Let's remember that two of these last three slow starts were against division opponents on the road. These games are ALWAYS hard. Our division foes have always treated the Colts coming into town as if it's the Super Bowl. Since the division was formed in 2002, the Colts have obviously by far been the most successful team in the AFC South and it's not even close. We make the playoffs every year and go to Super Bowls, while the other three usually haven't even made the playoffs. Along with the AFC East with the Pats, the South has probably been the most lopsided division since the 2002 realignment. Also, as I mentioned, let's not forget that the 2006 championship team went 0-3 against the division on the road. These games have always been tough, even when we were at the peak of the Manning era. These Mickey Mouse teams in the division obviously envy the Colts and it often makes their season if they can just get one win against them.
Add all of that to the fact that the Texans and Titans were making last ditch playoff pushes at home with intense prime time crowds, and it's pretty easy to see why the start of these games were so difficult. But we adjusted and found ways to win both of them. I'll take ugly wins over losses any day of the week. There's certainly plenty of work to do if we want to make a deep playoff run, but we showed a lot of grit winning both of these games. 3-0 on the road against the division? That's impressive anyway you slice it.
The Rams game was obviously inexcusable, but sometimes those games happen. It's not like we never got blown out in the Manning era. But we picked up the pieces and got a huge road division win.


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PHOENIX -- Corey Hart will undergo a follow-up MRI scan of his surgically-repaired right knee at 9:30 a.m. MT on Friday. If it brings good news, he will lose the crutch he's been using to walk around and begin slowly ramping up rehabilitation.
The way Hart was talking Thursday, you wondered if he planned to spend the night in his car outside the clinic.
"I'm eager because I'm bored of the same stuff," Hart said.
Hart had a procedure on Jan. 25 in which the knee joint surface was debrided -- a process in which the surgeon induces bleeding around an imperfection to induce the body to fill in the gap. Hart also had a small meniscus tear repaired.
It's the imperfection -- Hart again referred to it as a microfracture -- that will be the focus of Friday's scan. Typically, a follow-up MRI is not scheduled until two months post-surgery, but Hart is having his after six weeks.
"I'm kind of a guinea pig because I've been bugging them a lot," Hart said. "I told them if they wouldn't do [an MRI], I'd go do it myself and bring it in and have them look at it.
"Even if it's not favorable, at least I'll know. I'd rather get it done just in case I can start doing more. I want to know if I can do that."
Hart is a notoriously fast healer and said the knee feels "great," but he expressed caution. Even with good news from the MRI, he is three-to-four weeks away from any baseball activity.
A good result would being another perk: Hart would be able to drive a car again. That would help, considering his driver in recent weeks, fellow first baseman Mat Gamel, will undergo a knee surgery of his own on Friday for a torn ACL. Gamel will stay in Hart's guest house during the early stages of his rehab.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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2016 Dark Abstract Calendar
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A striking, bold modern calendar with a typographic style, the Dark Abstract Calendar is perfect for those looking something a little different.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Kidney Diseases
Dilute Urine
I have had 3 urinalysis`, a random specimen upon initial visit, specific gravity, and an 24 hour osmolality. All 3 have indicated dilute urine. I have never consumed the recommended amount of water.
Prior to the last two tests, the specific gravity test and the 24 osmolality, I knew I`d be having blood drawn for other testing; therefore, I drank about 2 liters of water. (I know that it is easier to have blood drawn when you are properly hydrated.)
My question is this: Since I have probably been chronically dehydrated, due to the lack of a normal consumption of fluid, is it possible that by consuming a normal intake of 2 liters of water, over the course of the day prior to these tests and given the fact that my body is just not used to a normal intake,cause the urine test to indicate dilute urine due to my body reacting as though it was over-hydrated? Is that plausible?
My physician is sending me to an endocrinologist. I assume she will want a urinalysis test (specific gravity and/or osmolality) in the absence of consuming any liquids to see if this brings the concentration level up.
Thank you.
Most people probably consume at least 3 or 4 8-ounce glasses of fluid daily, as water, coffee, juice, pop, etc. This is plenty, because food also contains a lot of water (for instance, many fruits and vegetables are 90+% water, and meats are about 50-60% water). Regardless of how much water you are used to consuming, if you drink a large amount (like 2 liters) before having the urine tests, it would not be at all surprising that your urine would be dilute. In other words, a normal kidney, when given a lot of water, puts out a lot of water (i.e., a dilute urine): that's its job.
A person who is unable to produce a concentrated urine has to urinate a lot, day and night, and is always thirsty. This does not sound like you. You might explain to your doctor that you deliberately drank a lot of water before being tested; because a repeat urine test done first thing in the morning (before you drink anything) could save you a trip to the endocrinologist.
Mildred Lam, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University