Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

The reigning American League Most Valuable Player and the defending A.L. batting champion, Josh Hamilton, is out for six to eight weeks with a broken humerus bone. You're probably wondering what I think about it. I have two thoughts. First, my friend Jeff is right: Hamilton is injury prone. To be injury prone is to be susceptible to injury on plays that would not injure most others. When Hamilton rams into an outfield wall and gets injured, that is not evidence for injury proneness, because anyone else would have been injured on the same play. When he slides head first into home plate and gets injured, that is evidence for injury proneness. Second, the Rangers will do just fine without Hamilton. His replacement, David Murphy, will rise to the occasion. Murph is the heart and soul of this ballclub. Only someone who watches the Rangers day in and day out, as I do, will understand what I mean.