Poor Roy Halladay, you think he’s done?
Finally someone asks me. Ok, between the 2011 and the 2012 season Halladay and his buddy Chris Carpenter went fishing down in South America, Carpenter fell in the river and was getting attacked by a snake, Halladay jumper in and saved him.
Since then neither has pitched well, Carpenter was reported as having thoracic outlet syndrome, i.e nerve compression in the neck-shoulder area causing numbness and Halladay was reported as having shoulder issues but more importantly his heat exhaustion, the sweating and the weight loss.
Was he checked for parasites or mosquito-born illnesses? Did he pick up something in that tropical river. You would think that the team Doc would have checked but who knows? Otherwise did 2 highly paid multi-millionaire players nix their careers by going fishing in the offseason?