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). [...]

In an effort to prevent a stream of obscenities from flying from my fingertips to your screen, I will let Twitter tell the story.

It is worth noting that Erik Bedard, Chris Carpenter, Trevor Hoffman, Jon Rauch, Jason Schmidt, and Casey Janssen had similar surgical procedures … and came back with [...]