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2025: 50, 50, 50, 50
2024: 48, 49.4, 48.8, 50
2023: 50, 49.8, 50, 50

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The Braves top four in the order were 0-12 tonight. They won the game by 5 runs….

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Braves ace Spencer Strider #MLB

Right elbow injury

He is has damage to his Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) per @jonmorosi

He is going to get evaluated by Dr. Keith Meister, who is an expert in elbow injuries, especially performing the internal brace surgery.

My suspicious is that the Braves team docs saw on his imaging (MRI, ultrasound) as well as during his exam, they weren’t super happy with it.

So much so, that they’re getting a second opinion with Dr. Meister.

IMO this is VERY concerning. Strider has been unbelievable and considered by most as the top starting pitcher in baseball right now.
So this is pretty devastating for them.

Strider already had Tommy John surgery once in 2019 while he was a sophomore at Clemson.

The question is how much damage is to the UCL (sprain, partial tear, full thickness tear)?

Also where is the location of this tear (anterior vs. posterior bundle)?

Each of these factors will decide the path that Strider will take to address his elbow.

If he has a full thickness tear then he’s likely requiring another Tommy John surgery and will miss the rest of 2024 and likely all of 2025.

If he has a partial tear then he may by a candidate for internal brace procedure, which would end his 2024 season but may allow him to pitch early in 2025.

What if he has a sprain to the UCL?

Well it depends on the location of that sprain.

If the sprain/small tear is in the anterior bundle of the UCL then the data shows he may not warrant surgery (primary repair or Tommy Johnson surgery) but would benefit from regenerative medicine injections (PRP, stem cells) that countless pitchers have received (Ohtani, David Price).

If the sprain is in the posterior bundle, then unfortunately these traditionally don’t respond as well to PRP/stem cells as the anterior bundles do. In that case he would likely get the internal brace procedure.

I think at this time there’s 3 realistic possibilities:

1. Misses 6-8 weeks, best case scenario with mild injury to the anterior bundle and maybe an injury to the flexor muscles (forearm). He would likely get 1-2 rounds of regenerative medicine (likely a combo of PRP/stem cells/growth factors).

2. Strider has moderate sprain but not a full thickness tear & he misses the rest of the season after undergoing internal brace/primary repair surgery (3rd photo). This is what Lucas Giolito had of the Red Sox about a month ago.

3. Worse case scenario would be he requires Tommy John surgery (last photo). Since we are still early in the 2024 season, there is a possibility he only misses the first half of 2025, assuming no setbacks.

Hopefully you found this helpful. If you’re looking for more injury-related content, consider following me.

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For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much happening right now and as 2023 ends, let's try to keep things in perspective, knowing that we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted forever. This too shall pass.

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