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Clay has been shutdown
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I thought I had heard he was done for the year, but I thought maybe they meant for the regular season.
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Confirmed. This is [censored] horrible.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseb...80298436_x.htm
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call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think there's a chance they wanted to shut him down due to innings, and didn't want a rebellion in the fan base if they were percieved to be
choosing to shut him down, or choosing to not pitch him instead of other guys.
said another way: they wanted to shut him down, and they made an announcement to make it seem like there was no choice but to shut him down.
otherwise, it wouldn't make sense to announce this now now, when there are still 3+ weeks to go before a potential WS. that's plenty of time to rest dead arm/fatigue - unless the larger factor of total IP was in play.