02-10-2011, 08:38 PM
(02-10-2011, 08:18 PM)mattynokes Wrote:(02-10-2011, 08:10 PM)Mstrpr626 Wrote: I don't think a player can improve his health status. If your known to be healthy, then your a healthy player. If you get injured, your more likely to get injured again after the injury, which is why I understand that health will decrease after an injury. If a player is staying healthy for years and years, he most likely has a good health rating. I really haven't encountered many sub 70 health rated guys who don't spend at least a month or two on the DL per year in a 3-5 year span.
An example of someone improving their health is Chipper Jones. During Spring Training of '94 he tore his ACL and missed the entire season. He then came back to never land on the DL from 1995 through 2003 with 8 consecutive years of 150+ games played. According to Mogul that ACL injury would probably have made him take a huge health hit and never be able to regain it.
You can prevent injuries by stretching or doing flexibility training or by something as simple as eating right. I've read many stories of players admitting to being pretty lax on their diet or workout regiment and then the light comes on and "boom", they feel better and need less days off as a result of being healthier.
While what you say has truth, consider this: All players, healthy or injury prone, have gone through some sort of injury. Even the players with good health ratings will have their time on the DL. So even thought Chipper had a torn ACL, that doesn't mean he was an unhealthy player before hand, that just means he encountered a set back. Because he was a healthy player, he returned to All-Star form. The point I'm trying to make is, unhealthy players do not improve their health in about 90% of the case. Yea they may stay off the DL longer than last time, but that doesn't mean their chance of getting injured has decreased. If the Chipper incident was a case inside Mogul, he probably would have had like an 85-90 health rating. Players with good health normally don't decline because of health. Healthy players encounter big injuries too, it's not like they will never have some sort of long term DL stint.