Perhaps his agent would have preferred the Giants not to buy out Noah’s arnitration years.

Maybe they did misdiagnose Noah. But his financial situation could have been a lot worse.

Interesting. Lowry was hurt (oblique, I think) during Conte’s last season (he quit in October of 2006) and really ran into some of the heavy medical problems in his 2007 season. I wonder if he was partially a victim of staff turnover?

Dave Groeschner took over for Conte after he left. Groeschner has been with the Giants for most of the last years, but he worked with the Cubs in 2004 and Chicago apparently didn’t like the way he did things.

Here’s what I put in the other post (if I may repeat myself):

Oh please. There was nothing stopping him from getting a second opinion at the time. And frankly, an athlete who is about to have surgery should definitely get a second opinion. Even if the Giants’ staff was wrong at the time (and all doctors make mistakes), it’s bad form for Lowery’s agent to come out whining about it now. Why wasn’t he advising his client to seek further medical opinions at the time?

It’s called personal responsibility, people.

Is it overly cynical of me to think that his agent is maybe just trying to convince other clubs that Lowry will be a better contributor elsewhere by blaming the Giants medical staff?

This was a sad story before the implied threats of a medical malpractice suit. Now it’s going to become a depressing one.

I don’t care. He’s still one of my favorite Giants ever. Also, he was pretty great in his first two years in the majors. I think a lot of people mainly remember his bad 2006 and lucky 2007, but his 2004-2005 seasons were very similar to Cain’s 2005-2006 (though Lowry was a couple of years older). Anyway:

First, it would be interesting to see whether one can sue a team or its trainers or anything, as they are not licensed physicians. If there is a cause of action against anyone, it would be against whatever physicians made the diagnosis, not Giants trainers.

Second, of course, not all mistakes are negligence. If the diagnosing physicians complied with the standard of care and made a reasonable diagnosis under all the circumstances, it’s not negligence, albeit wrong.

It definitely looks like a mistake was made. When two independent outside docs who are independent of each other arrive at the same conclusion, that is pretty compelling. If they think it was a circulatory deal from the start, that’s pretty strong to me.

Anyway, good luck, Noah. Get well.

Looks like Chavez might be done as well. Too bad for him.

It seems to me that the agent’s responsibility in an advisory role would have been to strongly suggest getting second and third opinions.
As a job steward at UPS, I always cautioned people to get seen by their own doctor for injuries and even handed out the form you need to file (BEFORE the injury if you don’t want the company doctor making your medical decisions) to new members.

Schulman brings up an interesting point here: how will this war of words affect Kevin Frandsen, who is a client of Damon Lapa as well. (I’m now predisposed to dislike anyone named “Damon” since a certain KNBR host began doing a show.)

Given how upset Frandsen was after being sent to Fresno at the end of spring training, and now with the Lowry thing, I wonder if Lapa’s dealing with some disgruntled players and lashing out at the Giants on their behalf, for better or worse.