NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani , Jacob deGrom and Walker Buehler found out Tommy John surgery is no longer a rarity but now routine.
NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom and Walker Buehler found out Tommy John surgery is no longer a rarity but now routine.
As TJ surgery approaches its 50th anniversary in September, baseball researcher Jon Roegele’s online record lists over 2,200 players who had the operation. Among them are 151 who have had it twice. “There’s two phenomena that have been happening here,” said Glenn Fleisig, director of biomechanics research at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. “First, more adolescents, high school and college pitchers are getting Tommy John or UCL surgery. And the other one is teams are not shying away, as they were in the past from drafting someone like that.”
“I went to Dr. ElAttrache in LA for my third, and he does a little different procedure,” Venters said. “Instead of drilling as many holes, he anchored the ligament down with a Titanium button that he drilled into my bone.”
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