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The Dugout: Jamie Moyer Gets 67-Year Old Tommy John Surgery

Jamie Moyer is my girlfriend's favorite baseball player. To put that into perspective for you, she also thinks Professor Philip Zimbardo is awesome. I think we should accept that Moyer will be pitching in the Major Leagues in some form or another long after we're all dead. And by "some form" I mean human, cyborg,...

Why Does Strasburg Need Tommy John Surgery?

(Aug. 27) -- On Friday, Washington Nationals rookie phenom pitcher Stephen Strasburg learned the bad news: In order to try to salvage his burgeoning career, he will need to undergo Tommy John surgery. FanHouse reported that Strasburg, who routinely hurls fastballs close to 100 miles per hour, tore the ligament in his...

2009 Just Got Tougher for the Blue Jays

With the 2008 season coming to an end, the future was starting to look bright for the Toronto Blue Jays. They have one of the best starting rotations in baseball, leading the Majors with a 3.54 team ERA, and if they can add a bat to their lineup to help score some runs, they can make a lot of noise in the AL East next...

Tom Glavine's Career May Be Over

On Thursday of last week, Tom Glavine returned to the mound for the Atlanta Braves for the first time since June 10th. Things didn't go very well, as the 300-game winner gave up seven runs in four innings, and still felt pain in his elbow after the game. It's because of this pain in his elbow that we now know Glavine...

Tim Hudson Will Have Tommy John Surgery

When the Braves learned they'd have to put Tim Hudson and Chipper Jones on the disabled list, it pretty much put an end to any hopes of winning the NL East this season, so they went ahead and traded Mark Teixeira to the Angels to make sure of it. Little did they know at the time that they would already be behind in the...

Tommy John surgery News From the Web

05/18/12 Tommy John surgery for Wood Source: CBSSports.com Alex Gordon hit a pair of RBI doubles and four Kansas City pitchers combined to hold the Seattle Mariners to six hits in the Royals 2-1 victory Sunday afternoon.
04/10/12 Devine has second Tommy John surgery Source: MLB - Oakland Athletics It's a disheartening thing for any player to deal with Tommy John surgery.
09/03/11 Surgical Techniques Improved Over Time (Washn) Source: The San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco CA Four crucial differences have made the surgical procedure known as "Tommy John surgery" more consistent.
08/28/10 Strasburg to have surgery Source: Niagara Falls Review Wood, once the apple of Major-League Baseball's eye before having Tommy John surgery and settling into a life of mediocrity and disabled lists, could probably pass on some valuable advice to the Washington Nationals whiz kid.

Background on Tommy John surgery

Tommy John surgery, known in medical practice as ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction, is a surgical graft procedure in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body (often from the forearm, hamstring, hip, knee, or foot of the patient).

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