Daily News | Bryce Harper could return to the Phillies’ lineup on Tuesday. Is it too much, too soon?
LOS ANGELES — Two weeks after Bryce Harper had a torn ligament in his right elbow reconstructed with a tendon from his wrist, his agent weighed in on whether the star slugger could beat the initial “by the All-Star break” timetable for a return to the”Our history with Bryce,” Scott Boras said on Dec. 6 from baseball’s winter meetings, “is that he has super healing qualities.”Advertisement
In 2020, longtime former Phillies athletic trainer Scott Sheridan contributed to a Rothman Orthopaedic Institute study for the American Journal of Sports Medicine on the rate of return from Tommy John surgery among position players. The research included 141 ligament reconstructions on 137 players from 2010 to 2018.
As a comparison, former Diamondbacks outfielder Luis Gonzalez had Tommy John surgery midway through the 2004 season and played in a spring training game 215 days later. Carl Crawford, also a former All-Star outfielder, had surgery on Aug. 23, 2012, and was back in time for opening day with the Dodgers in 2013.
”If you have a good hitter who’s an outfielder and it’s the nondominant [front] elbow, that’s the best-case scenario for him getting back sooner than some of the traditional timelines,” said Marcus Rothermich, an orthopedic surgeon at Andrews Sports Medicine in Birmingham, Ala. “It would be the absolute earliest on the timeline.
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