J.D. Drew Can Feel Mike Napoli's Pain http://0rz.tw/XHYAR It's all coming back to J.D. Drew. J.D. Drew再次成为焦点。 There's Monday's news that his brother, Stephen Drew, is coming to Boston, agreeing to a one-year deal to play shortstop for the Red Sox. (A notion J.D. didn't feel comfortable talking about when reached by phone Sunday night.) J.D. Drew的弟弟和红袜签下一年约。(礼拜天电访J.D. Drew，他那时不大想谈) And then there are the memories that Mike Napoli's situation has resurfaced. 然後他的记忆又浮现了─现在的Napoli跟他的处境很像。 Since the Red Sox first agreed to a three-year, $39 million deal with Napoli, the team has now come to terms with four more free agents -- Shane Victorino, Koji Uehara, Ryan Dempster and now Stephen Drew. Yet, still, there has been no word when it comes to the first baseman's deal becoming official, with the prevailing belief that medical concerns have resulted in the delay. 红袜在市场上的第一枪是Napoli，公道价3y $39M。接下来签了夏威夷人、上原、蛋皮和 猪小弟。但是到现在为止Napoli的约还没正式发布─大多人相信延迟的原因是医疗层面问 题。 That's 14 days of silence. For J.D. Drew, that's nothing. His wait lasted 52. 14天没动作了。不过对J.D. Drew来说，14天没啥大不了。他等了52天。 "Fifty-two days … The worst part of those were the first few days," Drew said. "With Theo [Epstein], our relationship, and Scott, it was understood we were going to get this deal done. I don't know what they're telling Napoli. I'm sure it's similar to that." J.D. Drew：「52天...最糟的是前几天。因为Theo、我和他的关系与经纪人Scott Boras ，一般认为这个约的确会签下去。不晓得他们怎麽跟Napoli说，不过我觉得这次跟我的经 验应该很相近。」 Drew might be the standard bearer when it comes to an example of a contract being reworked due to medical issues. His detour started in a hotel room on Dec. 13, 2006, when it was relayed that he would not be sharing a press conference with Julio Lugo as planned, and stretched all the way until late January 2007. J.D. Drew应该已经成为因为医疗问题得重新讨论合约的代表性人物之一。他的艰困旅程 始於2006/12/13，Drew原本计画要和Lugo一起开记者会，但是Drew突然接到消息，他不能 和Lugo一起开记者会。他等到2007年一月底才出来开记者会。 "It would have been nice to work it out in 20 days instead of 52 days. It was a unique situation to say the least," Drew said. "I can say this: It got me out of a big, stinking press conference." 「只花20天的话该有多好呢。那是一个诡异的情况，至少能这麽说。不过我可以说：『 我逃过又大又臭的记者会。」 Drew can relate somewhat to whatever Napoli might be feeling, although while such situations are similar, they are, as the former outfielder points out, rarely exactly the same. Drew觉得他能感同身受。不过Drew表示虽然状况类似，但其实不尽相同。 The Red Sox have executed a few of these such deals, ones that protect the team against medical concerns using clauses that will kick in if there is a problem with the specific ailment. For Drew, it was a right shoulder that had been operated on the offseason before signing with the Sox. Another example is John Lackey, who had a vesting option that became a team option at the major league minimum when he had to undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. 红袜处理过一些类似的合约。当球队遇上特定的伤病问题时，保护球队的条款将会生效。 Drew呢，他在和红袜签约前的休赛期间动了右肩的手术。另一个例子是Lackey，如果 他因为右肘伤势动了TJ，他的自动执行选择权会变成球队选择权，最低薪$500K。 It's a team policy that started when principal owner John Henry decided he would rather gain peace of mind through such clauses instead of insurance after being burned by an Alex Fernandez policy with the Marlins. John Henry决定采用这些心平气和的条款，而不是采用马林鱼对Alex Fernandez采用的 保险条款。 ( Marlins Have Insurance On Fernandez：http://0rz.tw/NeDlC ) But, again, it was J.D. Drew who represented one of the first, and perhaps most intriguing, cases. 不过J.D. Drew是首例，也是最有趣的一个。 "The one thing that was tough was I was there thinking that I was doing this press conference with Julio Lugo, and I thought it was odd nobody was telling me what we were going to do," he recalled. "I remember talking to Scott [Boras], 'What's the deal' Do I need to speak?' He just said they were in a holdup after the physical. That's probably what I remember the most, not the 52 days but just the first explanation that they weren't happy with what they found. I think as a player it was tough to understand because you're still capable of playing. 「最难受的地方是我在那里想着我会跟Lugo一起开记者会。还有，奇怪的地方是没人告诉 我我们接下来要干嘛。我问Boras怎麽了，我是不是该出面，他只说体检之後有些耽误。 我最记得的不是52天，而是球队第一时间对於体检报告不满之处的解释。对於球员来说 很难理解，因为你还能上场打球。」 "I knew I signed a big deal and people are going to want to make an announcement. So I'm at the hotel and I'm waiting around and Lugo has his press conference. I'm like, 'Scott, what's going on.' He just said, 'They're having some issues with your physical. Go home and we'll get this resolved.' He was pretty perturbed. For the next 52 days I had to spend my own time and money to refute some of the things that were going on and get the process to the point where we had to ultimately put a clause in the contract." 「我知道我签了大约，大家会想要我出面来宣布这件事情。我在饭店等着，Lugo却自己 开了记者会。我就问：『Scott, 怎麽了？』，Boras忐忑不安的说着：『他们对你的体检 报告有些疑虑，回家吧，我们会解决的。』接下来的52天我得花钱花时间反驳一些事情， 然後使用最终手段─加注条款来达成协议。」 What baffled Drew was that his right shoulder had been of little concern. He had experienced micro-fracture surgery leading into the '06 season (a procedure that drills holes in the bone to regrow cartilage), but as the season with the Dodgers progressed the body part had become less and less of a concern. A shot of Synvisc (helping lubricate the shoulder joint) in spring training had helped the recovery process, leading to a fully-functioning throwing arm come September. 让Drew百思不得其解的地方是他的右肩的问题不严重。他在06球季之前动了微创手术(在 骨头上钻洞，重生软骨)，接下来的球季在道奇的治疗之下越来越不成问题。在春训时他 注射了欣维可(帮助润滑肩关节)，帮助复健。在九月时，这支丢球的手臂已经完全复原 了。 Six years later, Drew reports that he's still had no problems with the shoulder. 六年後的今天，Drew表示他的肩膀一点问题都没有。 "I was a year removed from surgery, but I was throwing out runners at the end of the year," he said. "I'll be completely honest, my right shoulder to this day feels great. But my left shoulder still hurts (due to bone spurs suffered in '11)." 「我因为手术缺阵一年，但是我在年底可以用雷射肩干掉跑者。老实说，时至今日我的 右肩依然健康，但是我的左肩还会痛(2011年受骨刺所苦)。」 Following the examination by the Red Sox medical team, and subsequent disagreement between parties, Drew set off to find some clarity regarding the situation. He visited a series of shoulder specialists, including Dr. James Andrews. 在红袜的队医系统检查之後两方的协议出现问题。Drew想办法让情况明朗化。他跑去找很 多肩膀专家─包括Dr. James Andrews。 "It was frustrating because you had one doctor say, 'Look, I've seen 100 times worse shoulders. Is J.D. going to be able to play for you? Absolutely. Is he going to be in a position where he can't perform five years down the road? No way.' We had to be careful to word the contract that if I got injured playing for the Boston Red Sox it was viewed as different than me being injured before," Drew said. 「当你听到医生说这些话时特别沮丧：『嘿，我看过糟糕100倍的肩膀。J.D.能上场打球 吗？当然可以。他在接下来的五年之间无法正常表现？不可能。』我们得小心签约用字 ─在红袜打球受伤和之前就受伤会被视为不同的事情。」 "I never felt like Theo didn't want me. It was well known the Red Sox wanted me to play in Boston. It wasn't like, 'We trust our doctor and there is no way we're bringing this guy in here.' They were basically saying, 'Just give us some assurances if something happens with this injury you had we're going to be able to address that for the sanity of ourselves, our team and our fan base.'" 「我不曾觉得Theo不要我。大家都知道红袜想要我加入，感觉不像是『我们相信队医， 所以我们不可能签那个家伙。』他们比较像是『如果发生甚麽事情的话，给我们保险。 这对球队和球迷才能有个合理的交代。』」 Yet, despite the wait and the drama, Drew never grew concerned that his five-year, $70 million deal was in jeopardy. And at the end of the day all that changed was a clause that stated that the Red Sox could have voided the fourth or fifth years of his deal if time was lost due to the preexisting injury in the third or fourth season. 虽然歹戏拖棚了好一阵子，Drew从不担心他的5y$70M的合约会被吹走。最终他和红袜的合 约加注了「如果在第三季或第四季因为已经存在的伤势而缺席过多的比赛的话，红袜可以 不用为他的第四年或第五年的合约负责。」 "I don't ever remember being overly anxious," he said. "I remember being like, 'This is weird,' and then thinking that maybe I wasn't healthy. Scott was like, 'You need to see Andrews. We're getting second opinions.' I told him, 'I feel great, Scott. I'm not hurt at all.' I guess there were a couple of times I missed a little time and they documented it as, 'sore right shoulder,' instead of tired shoulder. I was still recovering from surgery. It was just a unique situation." 「我不记得我有陷入完全的恐慌。我记得我只觉得奇怪，然後想着自己可能没有很健康。 Boras觉得『你该去见见Dr. Andrews，我们需要寻求第二意见。』我告诉Boras我觉得 我感觉很舒服，没有受伤。」 「可能因为我缺席了几次，他们就在文件上写『肩膀痛』而不是『肩膀疲劳』。我还在复 原中，所以那个时间点的状况很诡异。」 And now, it's Napoli's turn. 现在轮到Napoli来面对这个问题了。 "I just know I was getting closer and closer to spring training and I was like, 'Who am I playing for?'," Drew said. "As a player you're conditioned to be a free agent, and it doesn't happen very often where you're coveted by a team to sign a nice deal. I'm sure [Napoli's] at home trying to get it all ironed out." 「我只知道时间越接近春训的时候，我开始怀疑『我要帮谁打球』」 「身为一个球员，你得把状况调整成自由球员的状态。这对於被球队垂涎已久、签下好合 约的球员来说并不常见。」 「我很确定Napoli现在在家里，试着解决这个问题。」 -- "HARD WORK BEATS TALENT WHEN TALENT FAILS TO WORK HARD." --

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