Depending on the recovery time of Brandon Morrow, the Toronto Blue Jays season could be hanging in the balance. This much we know, Morrow, who suffered a strained left oblique muscle after throwing only nine pitches against Washington on Monday, is going on the 15 day disabled list. The time it takes come back from this injury is unpredictable and varies case to case Heres a worse case scenario going back a few years. Chris Young now with the Mets, was pitching with the Padres in 2007. He was having an incredible season with a 9-3 record and a 1.85 era when he strained an oblique on July 24th. He returned August 9th and didnt win another game for the rest of the season. From a 2008 article in USA today, I discovered, Stan Conte whos been a trainer with the Giants and the Dodgers did a study of these painful injuries to these key abdominal muscles that connect to the bottom of the rib cage. He found it takes a position player an average of 44 days to return from a strained oblique. Pitchers took 50% longer likely because of the added torque they put on their torsos with every pitch. There have been medical advances in the treatment of this injury and every case is different. But using the Conte model, Morrow could be out 66 days or two months if you will. It says here if Morrow is gone that long, the Jays post-season dreams will be severely damaged if not ruined. You just cant go out and find a pitcher of the caliber of Morrow in June and maybe not even at the deadline unless that pitcher is in the final year of his contract or has the kind of contract a team is just trying to dump. The top two candidates to replace Morrow, at least in the short term are Jesse Chavez and veteran lefty Brett Cecil. If by any chance Henderson Alavarez is sent down , maybe they both get called up, with Cecil starting Sunday and Chavez Tuesday. A Short Stay I was sorry to see things didnt work out for the Jays and Vladimir Guerrero. I can completely understand why the 37-year-old Hall of Famer was pushing hard for a call-up. However, the Jays couldnt let a player force their hand especially when outside of one four hit game, Guerrero wasnt exactly putting up stellar numbers as Las Vegas. In the few highlights I saw, Vladdy didnt exactly seem to be running that well either. Cleveland, Oakland and maybe Detroit would seem to be his best shot for future employment Even in mid-June, the numbers are starting to stack up against the Jays with 100 games to go. Theyd have to go 60-40 to finish with 91 victories, which might be what it would take just to grab a wild card slot. Right now they are 31-31 and in 8th place overall in the American League. Bon Chance! wholesale jerseys . -- Ike Hilliard is returning to the Washington Redskins as receivers coach. cheap jerseys . 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Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Patrick Marleau and Brent Burns, into an empty net, also scored for the Sharks (4-0-0), who beat the Canucks 4-1 in both teams season opener after sweeping Vancouver four straight in the first round of last years playoffs. San Jose, which also won all three meetings during the 2013 regular season, has not lost to the Canucks (3-2-0) since Jan. 21, 2012. "Were just deep, were really, really deep and we want to come at you every night," said Sharks captain Joe Thornton, who along with Logan Couture, added two assists. "We have been doing that early on." The backbreaker was Marleaus goal that made it 3-1 midway through the second period. Despite trailing 2-0 after the first, the Canucks managed to cut the San Jose lead in half with Mike Santorellis fourth goal in three games at 10:20, only to see Marleau score on a one-timer just 95 seconds later. "No matter what happened or where we struggled, we crawl back into it (at) 2-1. We need to at least play with that for a little bit and not get scored on so quickly," said Canucks coach John Tortorella. "Really that was a gimme. We were just too slow. We turn it over when we dont need to and then we dont react defensively after the turnover." Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo held his team in with 25 stops, but said Vancouver needed a better start. "Obviously the first period hurt us. Weve made comebacks the last couple of games but against good teams like that its tough to get out of a hole," he said. "I thought our first period we were a little bit tentative. "Against a team like that you got to play 60 minutes if you want to give yourself a chance." Sharks forward Tomas Hertl, who became the talk of the NHL after scoring four times in Tuesdays 9-2 win over the New York Rangers, was held pointless but was still noticeable as part of a dominant San Jose first line that includes Thornton and Burns. 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