The New York Mets announced that Matthew Allan, the former Top-100 pitching prospect, underwent UCL revision surgery in January. This will be Allan’s third procedure on his right elbow since being drafted in the third round of the 2019 MLB
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Tag: Tommy John
A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: Jeff Passan’s “The Arm”
I finished reading Jeff Passan’s book The Arm shortly after making my pitching debut in the London Mets Fall League, pitching exclusively what one teammate charitably described as ‘80s loop balls’ (referring, of course, to the decade of the 1980s
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Tommy John surgery – bionic or barbaric?
In January 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added 1,100 new entries. Some, like mansplaining, I hear from my daughters in response to sage advice I impart. Others, like hangry, are also directed at me, usually when I arrive home a
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