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Aroldis Chapman Was Historically Fast on Tuesday Night

By Josh AlperSep 1st 2010 – 2:20PM

Get used to hearing a lot about Chapmania over the final month of the major league season. The Reds wasted no time getting Aroldis Chapman into his first big league game on Tuesday night and Chapman wasted no time in living up to every bit of the hype that was building since he signed with the Reds in January. He retired...

Tigers' Joel Zumaya to Have Surgery

By FanHouse StaffJul 5th 2010 – 2:36PM

Though the Tigers initially hoped he wouldn't have to undergo a procedure, injured reliever Joel Zumaya will have surgery on his fractured right elbow after all. He'll go under the knife next week and will have a screw inserted in his elbow to stabilize the fracture. Zumaya's season ended a week ago when he suffered a...

Joel Zumaya Has Non-Displaced Fracture of Olecranon, Out for Season

By Andrew JohnsonJun 29th 2010 – 3:37PM

The Tigers announced what many feared Tuesday afternoon. Reliever Joel Zumaya will miss the rest of the 2010 season after suffering a non-displaced fracture of the olecranon, a bone in the elbow, in a win against the Twins on Monday night. The flame-throwing right-hander was diagnosed with the injury Tuesday morning after...

Tigers' Joel Zumaya to DL After Suffering Serious Arm Injury

By FanHouse StaffJun 28th 2010 – 11:37PM

Update: Joel Zumaya Out for Season Flame-throwing Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya suffered what appeared to be a serious elbow injury during the eighth inning of Monday night's Detroit-Minnesota game. Zumaya, who entered the game with two outs in the seventh, was injured with one out in the eighth on a pitch -- his 14th of...

Is Stephen Strasburg the 100-MPH King?

By Pat LackeyJun 18th 2010 – 3:00PM

When Stephen Strasburg takes the mound at Nationals Park Friday night, all eyes will be on the radar gun. Can he hit triple digits? How many times can he do it? That begs another question, though. Just how often does a pitcher throw a pitch that's over 100 miles per hour? As in, really over 100 mph and not 100 on the...

joel zumaya News From the Web

  • 05/02/12 Weirdest sports injuries Source: Western Courier - Macomb IL Add Amare Stoudemire's latest scuffle with a fire extinguisher following the New York Knicks' loss to the Miami Heat in Game Two to the list of the weirdest sports injuries off all time.
  • 05/01/12 Dumb injuries a part of sports history Source: ABC - WXYZ TV 7 - Detroit MI Knicks forward Amare Stoudemire cut his hand punching a plate of glass protecting a fire extinguisher, so I made a short list of some other dumb injuries in sports history.
  • 04/17/12 RandBall: Ideal Twins pitching staff (February) vs.... Source: RandBall - Star Tribune *Joel Zumaya can come back from chronic injuries and give the Twins a flamethrowing late-inning righty.
  • 04/16/12 TFD: Ideal Twins pitching staff in February vs. real... Source: RandBall - Star Tribune *Joel Zumaya can come back from chronic injuries and give the Twins a flamethrowing late-inning righty.

Background on joel zumaya

Joel Martin Zumaya (born November 9, 1984) is an American professional baseball pitcher. He is known for his record-breaking fastballs and his numerous injuries.

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