Man, I hadn't even noticed that. I only got as far as thinking, "Shouldn't the medical crackmonkeys be trying to talk him into it? Oh, wait, they suck at their jobs. Never mind."

Yuck. It surprises me not a whit, though. It is so painfully clear that the organization doesn't give a flying fuck about its players. I think it's time for us to start getting organized and kidnapping our favorite A's to take them to teams where they do crazy things like look after their players.