Baseball Loses $1.1 Billion to Pitching Injuries Over Five-Year Period — forbes.com

Hallelujah. Baseball is here. The exhibition season is in full swing and hope springs eternal. Well, not in Texas, unfortunately for Rangers fans, where it’s déjà vu all over again. Following a 2014 season with over 2000 player days lost to the disabled list, the Rangers’ ace right-hander Yu Darvish managed all of one inning of one spring start before exiting with what was quickly diagnosed as a sprained ulnar collateral ligament. While Tommy John surgery is the usual remedy for an UCL, Darvish is considering his options, such as they are. Presumably throwing left-handed (see photo) is not under consideration.

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