This story comes courtesy of Jim Gleason.
You are the Director of Scouting and have decided that your pick in the Draft will be a pitcher. Your vision is to bring in front line starter potential to rebuild your system from the mound out.
There are two pitchers graded out the same with similar makeup and high ceiling projection except…one has had the internal brace procedure, and one has not…
Is there a risk from the surgery being done or is there no risk because it’s already been done?
This is a question that the scouting community is debating. There is a perspective that it’s not if a pitcher will have a surgery in their career but when. That leads to opinions on both sides of the aisle. How do you decide value allocation to a pre-injured player?
Let’s talk about the internal brace procedure and how we got …