Zach Putnam undergoes TJ Surgery

Submitted by ChalmersE on
Former Wolverine top hitter/top pitcher and current White Sox hurler Zach Putnam underwent Tommy John surgery. Here's hoping for a successful and speedy recovery and a return to the majors by 2019.

mGrowOld

June 26th, 2017 at 9:00 PM ^

"Mr. John your elbow is a mess and you're going to need surgery""

"OK.  What are you going to do?"

"I have no idea.  I'm just going to go in and see if I can use your extra tendons and you know....see if I can fix things.  Never really done it before but theoretically it should work"

"Let do it!"

That guy was a salesman.

 

ST3

June 27th, 2017 at 1:37 AM ^

He's got to be at least a little pissed off that the surgery is known as Tommy John surgery. How would you like to invent something and have it be named after your patient? It would be like Einstein's theory of relativity being named the Bern Patent Office theory of relativity.

Everyone Murders

June 27th, 2017 at 7:33 AM ^

Indeed - it would be like Alfred Wallace's theory of evolution being named after Charles Darwin.

(Foghorn Leghorn voice - That's a joke, folks - I know the Wallace v. Darwin thing is a bit more nuanced than that.)