March 5, 2026 • 6 mins
Thursday on The A-Team, Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler react to Jeremy Peña fracturing his finger and examine what it could mean for the Houston Astros. With Peña possibly not ready for the start of the season, it raises another question: would the club still consider trading Isaac Paredes? Listen to the full audio to hear how the Astros could handle this setback before the season begins.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Astro shortstop Jeremy Pania does in fact have a fracture
in the tip of his finger. The expectation is he
will be reevaluated in two weeks. He will be wearing
a cast and is no longer expected to participate in
the World Baseball Classic, obviously in a cast in two
weeks until he gets reevaluated. The tournament is over in
(00:21):
that period of time, and he's going to be back
with the ball club and West Palm Beach obviously doing
whatever's necessary to take a look at it. I don't
imagine this cast is expected to be on a specific
or a particularly long period of time. And hopefully tomorrow
when Joe Spoda meets with the media before their next
afternoon game, which again we will have four you on
(00:43):
Sports Talk seven to ninety, maybe has a few more
details about the timing of this. And you know the
expectation because, like I said earlier, three weeks from today,
the Astros are on the field in a game that
does count in the standings.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's game one of one to sixty two.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's the opening of a seven game homestand the twenty
twenty six season begins three weeks from today, and three
weeks plus one day yesterday is when Jeremy Payne, you
got hurt.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How did he get hurt?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
He got hurt in the field, rocket up the middle,
went down to field. It kind of a quirky hop
that he wasn't expecting, but he was in the right
position to make the play, fielded the ball and fired
on over the first roughly right behind second base, and
clearly noticed something was wrong because the video that I'm
sure many of you have seen, he was looking down
at his hand on his ring finger is where the
(01:30):
tip of his finger was hurt.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
The nail was hurt, and he looked at it.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It was kind of doesn't seem right, and obviously not obviously,
but it did bleed a little bit, and he stayed
in the game, finished the inning, even took one more
at bat, and then he was lifted from the game.
Dana Brown telling Brian McTaggart, and I should note the
information I gave you on Jeremy Paine. It comes from
Brian McTaggart's recent posts. Is that precautionary. Obviously he shouldn't
(01:55):
be playing with a broken anything, and once I think
that was determined with momultiple sets of imaging that that's
where we sit.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He is sitting right now.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He's out of action, and his preparation for the season
clearly is taking a huge turn getting early work, which
the Astros intentionally did so. When he went to the
World Baseball Classic, however, he was used there, he would
have a lot of work under his belt already. Now
he's not gonna have any work moving forward. Certainly, there's
only so much a baseball player who's right handed can
(02:26):
do when you have a cast on your right hand.
So even if he is available when the season begins
or very close to it, this obviously is something that
now your preparation for the season to try to be
at your best for the season, Well, it's gonna happen
in season instead of prior to the season.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, here's my first question. Matt Kawahara tweeting that he
will have a splint on his finger, Well, which is it?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think it's the same thing, Brian saying the same
thing as splint.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay, versus a cat.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean when I think of a cast, though, I
think that's much more cumbersome.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's It's like sometimes when we see a player, NFL player,
even an NBA player, they go and they play, and
they leave the field, they don't return to the game,
and then we go into the locker room after the game,
or we're in the concourse, the corridors underneath the arena
or stadium.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh my god, he's in a walking boot. It's over.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
No, it's you know, what kind of stability is necessary
to allow that player's ankle or in this case, Jeremy's
finger to heal best as I mentioned some of the
things that like you noted with Matt of the Houston Chronicles,
said Brian, now saying the exact same thing. He'll be
wearing a splint staying with the Astros, and that takes
him out of the WBC.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But this didn't have to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Why didn't it have to happen because the players at
the WBC hit the ball too hard? Because if he
wasn't playing in the WBC yesterday, pretty good chance he
would have been in the lineup against the Orioles for
Joe a spot as Astros yesterday. He ball got hit
up the middle, he fielded it, he threw the guy out.
He didn't get hurt. At Duffy's Sports Bar and Grill,
(04:01):
he didn't get hurt on a motorcycle. He wasn't washing
his monster truck. He didn't get hurt in a hot tub.
He didn't get hurt at the movies. Sliding glass door,
he no sliding glass door. And I mean he got
hurt playing or like if nobody Scott, if he didn't
get hurt on a boxer's world famous grill.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Either, that's true, both of those happened to Michael.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
If these players Jose a couple of years ago and
now Jeremy this time around, if their preparation for the
season did not include playing exhibition baseball games, and then
out of nowhere they decided, Hey, but this year, I'm
gonna go out there and play baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's how I'm gonna get ready for the season.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'm gonna go play for my home country and this
thing called the WBC that's about twenty years old. And
I hope I can stay healthy, because otherwise I would
have just been lifting weights and throwing medicine balls around
and I'd be ready for the season. They're getting ready
for the season, just in a different arena, playing baseball games.
Getting hit by a pitch, I'll admit, is extremely ridiculous. Unfortunate,
(05:00):
even though it all comes within the framework of the game.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
This was a game seven of the ALCS that season.
This is a good omen.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
See you now you can always spend it positively. I
like that this, you know, for a player to get
you know, have a broken a fracture and a finger
on a ground ball, that was very unique. It's not
it's obviously happened before, but it's just how it's unfortunate. Oh,
you're right, no question. Hundreds and hundreds of them, not
(05:27):
only during games or during workouts. I mean you could
get hurt fungo with your third base coaches, you know,
liner shots all across the infield during you know, before BP,
before a game.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It could happen anytime.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I will acknowledge the one thing we do point out,
especially uh when it happened with Altuve. The World Baseball
Classic itself can be a nice tool to prep for
the season because of the timing, but it also happens
right before the season.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What if it happened right after the season.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I mean, we tell you that Jeremy Pana has a
finger injury, and and we'd say, yeah, he's probably going
to be back sometime in early November when they don't
have any games. He'll definitely be ready by December when
they don't have any games. He'll probably be ready in
January when they still won't have any games. Now we're
three months into him being healthy, and then he'll go
to West Palm Beach, Florida, and he'll be super healthy
(06:17):
because they'd be going into the off season. What if
I mean it could happen during the season, It could
happen before the season, could happen at the end of
the season. The timing of the World Baseball Classic now
has been plunked down in this part of the schedule
right before the season.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, here's I mean? Is it too soon to make
the obvious?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's not a joke, it's just an observation about the situation.
This solves your infield glut that
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Is enormous and absolutely a factor, and they'll be trading
in East sak now
Astro shortstop Jeremy Pania does in fact have a fracture
in the tip of his finger. The expectation is he
will be reevaluated in two weeks. He will be wearing
a cast and is no longer expected to participate in
the World Baseball Classic, obviously in a cast in two
weeks until he gets reevaluated. The tournament is over in
(00:21):
that period of time, and he's going to be back
with the ball club and West Palm Beach obviously doing
whatever's necessary to take a look at it. I don't
imagine this cast is expected to be on a specific
or a particularly long period of time. And hopefully tomorrow
when Joe Spoda meets with the media before their next
afternoon game, which again we will have four you on
(00:43):
Sports Talk seven to ninety, maybe has a few more
details about the timing of this. And you know the
expectation because, like I said earlier, three weeks from today,
the Astros are on the field in a game that
does count in the standings.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's game one of one to sixty two.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's the opening of a seven game homestand the twenty
twenty six season begins three weeks from today, and three
weeks plus one day yesterday is when Jeremy Payne, you
got hurt.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How did he get hurt?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
He got hurt in the field, rocket up the middle,
went down to field. It kind of a quirky hop
that he wasn't expecting, but he was in the right
position to make the play, fielded the ball and fired
on over the first roughly right behind second base, and
clearly noticed something was wrong because the video that I'm
sure many of you have seen, he was looking down
at his hand on his ring finger is where the
(01:30):
tip of his finger was hurt.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
The nail was hurt, and he looked at it.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It was kind of doesn't seem right, and obviously not obviously,
but it did bleed a little bit, and he stayed
in the game, finished the inning, even took one more
at bat, and then he was lifted from the game.
Dana Brown telling Brian McTaggart, and I should note the
information I gave you on Jeremy Paine. It comes from
Brian McTaggart's recent posts. Is that precautionary. Obviously he shouldn't
(01:55):
be playing with a broken anything, and once I think
that was determined with momultiple sets of imaging that that's
where we sit.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He is sitting right now.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He's out of action, and his preparation for the season
clearly is taking a huge turn getting early work, which
the Astros intentionally did so. When he went to the
World Baseball Classic, however, he was used there, he would
have a lot of work under his belt already. Now
he's not gonna have any work moving forward. Certainly, there's
only so much a baseball player who's right handed can
(02:26):
do when you have a cast on your right hand.
So even if he is available when the season begins
or very close to it, this obviously is something that
now your preparation for the season to try to be
at your best for the season, Well, it's gonna happen
in season instead of prior to the season.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, here's my first question. Matt Kawahara tweeting that he
will have a splint on his finger, Well, which is it?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think it's the same thing, Brian saying the same
thing as splint.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay, versus a cat.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean when I think of a cast, though, I
think that's much more cumbersome.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's It's like sometimes when we see a player, NFL player,
even an NBA player, they go and they play, and
they leave the field, they don't return to the game,
and then we go into the locker room after the game,
or we're in the concourse, the corridors underneath the arena
or stadium.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh my god, he's in a walking boot. It's over.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
No, it's you know, what kind of stability is necessary
to allow that player's ankle or in this case, Jeremy's
finger to heal best as I mentioned some of the
things that like you noted with Matt of the Houston Chronicles,
said Brian, now saying the exact same thing. He'll be
wearing a splint staying with the Astros, and that takes
him out of the WBC.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But this didn't have to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Why didn't it have to happen because the players at
the WBC hit the ball too hard? Because if he
wasn't playing in the WBC yesterday, pretty good chance he
would have been in the lineup against the Orioles for
Joe a spot as Astros yesterday. He ball got hit
up the middle, he fielded it, he threw the guy out.
He didn't get hurt. At Duffy's Sports Bar and Grill,
(04:01):
he didn't get hurt on a motorcycle. He wasn't washing
his monster truck. He didn't get hurt in a hot tub.
He didn't get hurt at the movies. Sliding glass door,
he no sliding glass door. And I mean he got
hurt playing or like if nobody Scott, if he didn't
get hurt on a boxer's world famous grill.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Either, that's true, both of those happened to Michael.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
If these players Jose a couple of years ago and
now Jeremy this time around, if their preparation for the
season did not include playing exhibition baseball games, and then
out of nowhere they decided, Hey, but this year, I'm
gonna go out there and play baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's how I'm gonna get ready for the season.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'm gonna go play for my home country and this
thing called the WBC that's about twenty years old. And
I hope I can stay healthy, because otherwise I would
have just been lifting weights and throwing medicine balls around
and I'd be ready for the season. They're getting ready
for the season, just in a different arena, playing baseball games.
Getting hit by a pitch, I'll admit, is extremely ridiculous. Unfortunate,
(05:00):
even though it all comes within the framework of the game.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
This was a game seven of the ALCS that season.
This is a good omen.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
See you now you can always spend it positively. I
like that this, you know, for a player to get
you know, have a broken a fracture and a finger
on a ground ball, that was very unique. It's not
it's obviously happened before, but it's just how it's unfortunate. Oh,
you're right, no question. Hundreds and hundreds of them, not
(05:27):
only during games or during workouts. I mean you could
get hurt fungo with your third base coaches, you know,
liner shots all across the infield during you know, before BP,
before a game.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It could happen anytime.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I will acknowledge the one thing we do point out,
especially uh when it happened with Altuve. The World Baseball
Classic itself can be a nice tool to prep for
the season because of the timing, but it also happens
right before the season.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What if it happened right after the season.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I mean, we tell you that Jeremy Pana has a
finger injury, and and we'd say, yeah, he's probably going
to be back sometime in early November when they don't
have any games. He'll definitely be ready by December when
they don't have any games. He'll probably be ready in
January when they still won't have any games. Now we're
three months into him being healthy, and then he'll go
to West Palm Beach, Florida, and he'll be super healthy
(06:17):
because they'd be going into the off season. What if
I mean it could happen during the season, It could
happen before the season, could happen at the end of
the season. The timing of the World Baseball Classic now
has been plunked down in this part of the schedule
right before the season.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, here's I mean? Is it too soon to make
the obvious?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's not a joke, it's just an observation about the situation.
This solves your infield glut that
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Is enormous and absolutely a factor, and they'll be trading
in East sak now
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