Cleveland pitcher Shane Bieber was emotional on Monday talking to reporters about his upcoming season-ending Tommy John surgery.
ace has spent the past few days trying to process his new reality - Tommy John surgery and not pitching again this season.His voice choked with emotion, Bieber paused while speaking to reporters for the first time since deciding to have the surgery, a procedure that will end his 2024 season.
"Baseball will be there," the 2020 Cy Young winner said, speaking softly."I will be here. It's easy to keep things in perspective. It's just an injury that I'll get past. I'm not the first person, won't be the last. One of the things that is a bit more difficult for me is that throughout the offseason and in spring training, I did figure some things out and my performance was getting back to the place that I knew I was capable of.
He took the mound against the Mariners last week knowing he would have to push his elbow to the limit.In that start, Bieber said the elbow bothered him from"warmup one to pitch 83, so it was an emotional time." Bieber is just one of several big-name pitchers who have been diagnosed with elbow injuries. Atlanta's Spencer Strider, the New York Yankees' Jonathan Loáisiga, Miami's Eury Pérez and Oakland's
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