The news about Michael Pineda’s labrum injury prompted a lot of doom-and-gloom predictions that he may never be the same pitcher again.  In my post from this morning, I looked at a number of cases of pitchers who had labrum surgery, to compare their successes and outcomes.  One of the most notable successes was Curt [...]

After all the hand-wringing about Michael Pineda‘s velocity this spring, and his subsequent sidelining with shoulder pain/weakness, we finally have a resolution.  Unfortunately, the resolution was not a positive one, as a dye-contrast MRI found that Pineda had a torn right anterior labrum (a ligament that goes around the socket of the shoulder). [...]