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And after that it was almost all downhill.  Though, while a torn thumbnail probably would be painful and distracting for a long time, but unless he was retearing it over the rest of the year it's hard to imagine it not healing within a month.
Some interesting facts about Miguel Olivo while I'm posting on him; since 2005, he has a 70% success rate on stolen bases while taking the opportunity 6.4% of the time.  It's a little more impressive when you realize a 6.4% stolen base attempt rate is league average, and while I don't have an easy way to find what the average steal attempt is for catchers, but I'm sure it's a lot lower than what the league average is.
Also, someone said that Olivo is a Flyball hitter - he's not, over the last 4 seasons, Olivo has run a 0.77 GB/FB ratio, compared to a league average of 0.8 GB/FB ratio.  So he's about average for lofting flyballs.