Key Highlights
- Calling in to the Orioles Hot Stove Show on the team’s flagship radio station last night, Henderson revealed that he was dealing with a previously-unreported shoulder impingement “pretty much for three-quarters of the year.”Orioles fans have been through this routine very recently, as one year ago there was a lot of time spent wondering what happened to Adley Rutschman in the middle of the 2024 season.
- What’s different about Henderson’s case here is that Rutschman never actually acknowledged any specific injury.
- We must also hope that Henderson’s follow-up effort will be better, since Rutschman’s batting numbers only sank further in 2025 even with an offseason to heal up. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementOn the impact to his performance, Henderson said, “I could never get to the point that I wanted to get to with my swing … Just had to play through it and felt like I still with all those circumstances put up a decent year.” He’s right, and that’s another difference from the Rutschman thing.
- Although it feels disappointing as a sequel act to Henderson’s 9+ win season from 2024, Henderson did really push through whatever challenges he was facing to put up a decent year, batting .274/.349/.438 while stealing 30 bases. This is the second “actually, this guy was secretly hurt” narrative that we’ve gotten for the 2025 team, as far as I’m aware.
- Towards the end of last season, we also got hit with Colton Cowser playing through broken ribs suffered in a collision with an outfield wall in June.
