Misguided Public Perception on What Tommy John Surgery Can Do Apparent in New Study"Despite the recognized risk of pitch type and armount ofpitches, nearly a third of those we surveyed did not believepitch counts were a risk factor for injury. Even moredisturbing was that fact that a quarter...
To be more specific, Preller was asked whetherMike Clevinger'sTommy John surgerywould impact the team's agenda this offseason. His response: "It doesn't change it a ton. … We've been looking at it like: You never have enough starting pitching because of injuries and because of situations...
There is no doubt that awareness of the frequency of elbow ligament injuries has been elevated. In 2014, the attention-grabbing number of players undergoing Tommy John surgery -- and, perhaps more significantly, the star power names involved in recent years -- sounded an alarm in baseball that...
Ohtani hasn't technically been a pitcher since he underwent Tommy John surgery last year. But 1) he's spent his rehab moonlighting as one of thebest hitters in baseball, 2) he's officially started throwing again and 3) please don't forget howawesome he wason the mound when he was healt...
The 21-year-old right-hander hasn't pitched since he needed Tommy John surgery off an elbow injury suffered in 2023 spring training. Painter is set to return to the mound this weekend in the Arizona Fall League. The Phillies intend to cap him at 20 innings and haven't decided how they...
One type of surgery, ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, is often performed on baseball pitchers. It’s commonly known as “Tommy John surgery,” after the baseball pitcher who initially had the procedure in 1974. This procedure takes a tendon from elsewhere in the body to replace the tend...
John David Washington is the protagonist (but not, crucially, The Protagonist) inRogue Onedirector Gareth Edwards’The Creator, a thoughtful sci-fi blockbuster set in a near future where humanity finds itself at war with AI (*gasp*) – and itself. Here, Washington plays a conflicted US milit...
And Thomson has been careful in his usage with Dominguez, who is in his first full season back from Tommy John surgery. He pitched just 11 times on back-to-back days in the regular season and has had days off between all six of his postseason appearances -- at least two days in five...
In 1980, John Lennon denied Manson's ludicrous claim that the Beatles' lyrics were messages to him, saying: 'It has nothing to do with me. Manson was just an extreme version of the people who came up with the 'Paul is dead' thing' (the urban myth that, in 1966, McCartney had died...
This departure from tradition is partly from the influence of pioneersJohn ColtraneandOrnette Coleman, who discarded established norms in favor of a more open and experimental approach. Free jazz's rejection of conventions challenged listeners' expectations, pushing the boundaries of what jazz could be...