The Baseball Injury Report Media Room

Need a Baseball Injury Expert for your radio show or on-line chat?
If you want to add an injury expert to your baseball radio show Rick Wilton is available to provide expert analysis news on current injury situations. He is also available (depending on the date and time) to participate in on-line chats. Drop Rick an email at Rick (at) baseball-injury-report.com or 262-308-1552.

Need Injury Expertise for your baseball article or research?
Baseball writers looking for expert injury analysis or injury research statistics can reach Rick Wilton at Rick (at) baseball-injury-report.com or 262-308-1552.

IN THE NEWS

Tout Wars 2008
Rick Wilton again will be a league member of Tout Wars, the battle of the experts. Wilton, an original team owner in Tout Wars returns to face off against the best in fantasy baseball. Tout Wars, the focus of Sam Walker's bestseller Fantasyland is schedule to be the focus of a documentary on fantasy baseball this spring. Details to be posted here once they are released.

July 2, 2007
ESPN the Magazine
Rick Wilton's injury expertise was called upon by ESPN the Magazine for the July 2, 2007 edition. He provided analysis on potential key injured players and their status for the remainder of the 2007 season.

June 3, 2007
New York Times Play Magazine
In the June 3 edition of the New York Times Play Magazine, renowned author Buzz Bissinger digs deep in the Kerry Wood rehabilitation from a major shoulder injury. The Baseball Injury Report's injury database provides Bissinger with key injury statistics.

"According to Rick Wilton's Baseball Injury Report (probably the most comprehensive compendium of major-league baseball injuries publicly available), there were about the same number of players on the D.L. in 2006 - 347 - but the number of those who were pitchers had risen to 69 percent. To get an even better idea of how much time pitchers lose to injury, consider that 244 of the pitchers who played in the majors in 2006 have been on the disabled list at least once in the past five years. Their injury time adds up to 27,351 days, the equivalent of 149 lost seasons."

March - September 2007
ESPN - The Insider
Rick Wilton's longest running injury column - Dr. HQ published by Baseball HQ will be featured weekly in ESPN's Baseball Insider from Spring Training through the end of the regular baseball season. Wilton will focus on key injury situations utilizing his 15 years of injury experience.

UPCOMING EVENTS

In 2008...

First Pitch - Arizona - October 31- Nov 2
The 14th annual Fantasy Baseball Symposium at the Arizona Fall League will be held at the Doubletree Suites Hotel in Phoenix Arizona October 31- Nov 2. Rick Wilton is the program director of this marquee event in Fantasy Baseball. Top analysts from around the industry join Rick Wilton for the largest gathering of its kind in fantasy baseball.

First Pitch - Spring 2008
The 7th annual First Pitch spring tour has been released by First Pitch Forums. Rick Wilton is scheduled to be a major contributor during the east coast swing plus in Chicago and Cleveland.

First Pitch - Boston - March 9
First Pitch - New York - March 8
First Pitch - Wash DC/Balt - March 7
First Pitch - Chicago - March 2
First Pitch - Cleveland - March 1

In 2007...

First Pitch - Arizona - November 1-3
Rick Wilton, the founder of the First Pitch seminar/symposium concept, will speak on current issues in sports medicine November 3 in Phoenix at the Doubletree Hotel. His talk will include a wrap-up of injuries in 2007 and a detailed look Warning Flag candidates in 2008.

First Pitch - Spring 2007
Rick Wilton, Fantasy Baseball's first and most experienced injury expert, joins Ron Shandler as featured speakers for the 2007 First Pitch Spring Tour. The jammed packed three-hour seminar includes key injury analysis by Wilton. The scheduled dates:

First Pitch - Chicago - March 10
First Pitch - Boston - March 4
First Pitch - New York - March 3
First Pitch - Balt/Dec - March 2