Good Luck, Doug Davis, Dustin Nippert!
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Pitcher Doug Davis was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer, which apparently runs in his family - his mother and sister had it. He will undergo surgery on April 10, but wants to make his scheduled starts on April 3 & 8.
This type of cancer has a very high cure rate, and though Davis will need thyroid replacement medication for the rest of his life, there should be no disability. Davis expects to be pitching again 4 to 6 weeks after the surgery.
Dustin Nippert’s wife gave birth to the couple’s second child, a daughter, and a few hours later, Dustin got traded to the Texas Rangers for a prospect pitcher who pitched A ball last season. Mother and daughter are doing well but father’s head must be spinning right now as he absorbs the major changes in his life. Texas really needs pitching so this can be a great opportunity for Nippert. He and Brandon Medders were vying for one bullpen slot. Both were out of options and Medders had the better spring.
Best of luck to both Doug Davis and Dustin Nippert!
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Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog".
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