C.J. Wilson Chooses Surgery; Won’t Take The Mound Anymore In 2015

Per an ESPN report, C.J. Wilson of the Los Angeles Angels has decided to end his season with a surgery that will address bone spurs in his elbow.

Even if it’s not your ace, any blow to the pitching rotation or who you have available to put on the mound could end up hurting you at this juncture of the baseball season.

And of course, something would happen to the Angels.

C.J. Wilson‘s decision to address the bone spurs in his elbow instead of continue “about another 100 innings” as the ESPN report states he felt he had left in him shows us only one thing.

His condition was worth than anyone thought it was.

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If you tell your team that you feel you can pitch that many more innings before taking an injury into serious consideration and making a decision about how to move forward, that’s kind of a big deal.

If we’re talking him pitching a complete game (chances of pitching a lot of those obviously aren’t high, but it’s for the purpose of an example) — that’s 11 complete games plus an extra inning somewhere in the middle.

But considering that’s kind of an illogical way to analyze what was said, let’s look at how it’d really affect the team to have him for another 100 innings before decided to keep playing or rest up.

It could’ve kept him around and available till about game 145.

This, of course, depends on his actual performances from here to that point, but if all went well that’s a lot of key moments for the Angels in a division race where every game now matters twice as much as normal.

What’s even more damaging to the Angels is that they came off so explosive out of the All-Star break, jamming in a six-game winning streak, but now are experiencing just the opposite.

Now in a six-game slump, and losing in sweeping fashion to the LA Dodgers in the most recent edition of the Freeway Series, the Angels have to step it up now before the Astros pull away.

Considering the fact that no one really knows how far the Houston Astros can really take their phenomenal season so far, the fact that the Angels now trail for the division lead by four games could mean anything we want it to.

Just depends on how much you read into numbers.

From here on out, the Astros could slowly build a hefty lead that gets to the point where the Angels don’t play consistent enough to catch.

Or we could see more of the same from the Astros that we saw in the part of the season right before the All-Star break where there was a choke and the Angels took full advantage of it.

Bottom Line: The Angels need all the help they can get.

The winner of the AL West could have an incredible role in how the American League playoffs turn out.

Whoever represents the American League in the World Series gets home field on baseball’s biggest stage — we can only hope it’ll be in favor of Los Angeles.