There’s a good chance that Nick Kurtz’s season is over. You probably can do the timeline and think through the scenarios in front of us for Nick,” Kotsay acknowledged. Kurtz has battled thumb pain since at least the middle of July. Kurtz returned for a seven-game stretch in which he had only one hit before the thumb shut him back down. Even if this was a step back from Kurtz’s otherworldly rookie season, he’s among the ten best offensive players in the game at full health.