Few big-name injuries in 2006

The Lollygaggers · Post by **The Lollygaggers** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:14 am

Looking at the NFBC average draft report, I realized that only two Top 40 players -- Derrek Lee and Gary Sheffield -- missed significant playing time due to injury. Last year, eight of the Top 40 players (Schmidt, Rolen, Thome, Nomar, Sheets, Gagne, Schilling and Bonds) missed at least 30% of the year. 2004 also saw eight Top 40 injuries: Prior, Nomar, Magglio, K Wood, Halladay, Sexson, P Wilson and Wagner.

So, catastrophic injuries had less effect on this year's NFBC than the first two. I thought this was interesting, so I figured I'd share with my fellow stat-heads.

Spyhunter · Post by **Spyhunter** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:13 pm

Well, i seemed to find more than a few: Harden and Gomes come to mind... Not top 40 but key contributors...