A’s Brandon Moss has hip injury that will require offseason surgery
According to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle Brandon Moss has admitted to having a previously unreported right hip injury that will require offseason microfracture surgery.
Moss told Slusser that he’s known about the injury and been suffering from it for the majority of the season. Moss is regular in the A’s lineup. Usually starting at first base but also as an outfielder or as the desginated hitter.
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The 32-year-old All-Star first baseman had insanely good numbers during the first half of the season. His slash line read .268/.349/.530. He led (ahead of All-Star starting third baseman Josh Donaldson and two-time Home Run Derby Champion Yoenis Cespedes) the Athletics with 21 home runs and 66 RBI going into the All-Star Break.
The second half of the season hasn’t gone as well for Moss. He has hit just four home runs in that time (yes, he still has more home runs on the year than Cespedes) and driven in just 15 runs. His slash line for the second half reads .179/.312/.280.
So it’s safe to say it’s been a disapointing and likely, somewhat miserable second half for Moss. Moss however will not blame his dip in numbers on his injury, according to Slusser.
It’s hard to see how he cannot put some blame on the injury but knowing Moss, you’d know of course he wouldn’t. However considering Moss’ most recent MRI results it is really hard not to believe that the two must coinside at least partially.
Moss did admit that he has a had a loss of range of motion and of strength his right hip joint. He said that the MRI he recieved, alongside a cortisone shot before Wednesday’s game that the MRI showed so much torn cartilage that he has bone-on-bone issues.
“It was worse that we thought it would be. The (cortisone) shot should help me get through the rest of the season, but it won’t fix it.” Moss said.
Obviously if he has been fighting this for most, or even all, of the year it has deteriorated overtime which could not have helped his second half numbers. The cortisone shot is supposed to help Moss make through the season’s final series in Arlington against the Texas Rangers and through a potential postseason run by the Athletics.
The A’s are currently tied with the Kansas City Royals for the first of two American League Wild Card spots, two games up on the Seattle Mariners. It is starting look as though Kanasas City and Oakland will be the two to play eachother in the A.L. Wild Card.
Whichever team ends the season’s final series with the better record will receive home field advantage in the one-game Wild Card round of the playoffs.