Philadelphia Phillies: Will Cliff Lee’s Small Injuries Lead to Big Problems?

If you follow baseball, you will know about Cliff Lee’s injury.  If not, then you should know that Cliff Lee, the prized acquisition of the Phillies’ offseason, suffered a side injury last week.  Lee’s injury was not as serious as, say, Chris Carpenter’s or Adam Wainwright’s, but it could lead to bigger problems.

Now that the scare of Lee’s injury is passing, it’s time to analyze how it will change things.

This is Lee’s second side injury. The first one caused him to miss a large portion of the 2007 season.  Lee also suffered another injury in 2010.  This has led some people to believe that Lee is becoming injury prone.

Since Lee went 22-3 and won the AL Cy Young in 2008, I have become a fan (I’ll be the first to admit I jumped on that bandwagon).  From observations throughout the last three seasons, I have come to several conclusions, and made predictions concerning Lee.

Based on these observations and some research on Lee, I have compiled this slideshow to answer some big questions about him.

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