Tommy Kahnle Having Tommy John Surgery?

The team that wears the pinstripes probably won’t have one of their relievers in the bullpen for the rest of the unique sixty game regular season.

Who is it?

Right handed reliever Tommy Kahnle.

Why?

Because of that he felt discomfort in his right forearm on Tuesday during an evening workout at Camden Yards in Baltimore and was unable to play catch prior to Wednesday's game, prompting the club to shut him down. “according to an article by Bryan Hoch on mlb.com

It’s likely that Tommy Kahnle will undergo Tommy John Surgery.

What is Tommy John Surgery?

It’s where they repair the ulnar collateral ligament -- the band connecting your upper arm bone to your forearm bone (which, as you might imagine, gets pulled and stretched each time you throw a baseball). But as he took a look inside, he realized something: After years of wear, John didn't have any UCL left to repair.

So Jobe got creative: He harvested a ligament from John’s right wrist and used it as a UCL substitute. It was a fairly common procedure on wrists and hands, but it had never been tried with an elbow -- much less the elbow of a Major League pitcher. When John woke up, he found himself in the middle of history. Since no one had ever had this surgery before, no one knew how to rehab from it. But John set to work, exercising seven days a week, and eventually the results began to show: By June of 1975 he’d regained feeling in his fingers, and by July he was throwing batting practice again (the full 60 feet this time). By the winter, he was pitching to real, live hitters again, which meant that there was only one more hurdle to clear: Against all odds, John was set to become a Major League pitcher again.But John didn’t just make it back to the big leagues. He looked … well, like Tommy John. He threw 207 solid innings in 1976, then finished second in NL Cy Young voting in 1977. Naturally, word spread: He was a medical marvel, the man who’d come back from a place that no pitcher had managed to make it back from, and soon enough stars from Tom Candiotti to Paul Molitor sought out Dr. Jobe.John himself, meanwhile, kept on pitching until age 46, and while his elbow stayed sturdy, his defense did slip a bit:It’s hard to overstate the impact John and Jobe have had on the game. As of 2019, more than 500 Major League players have undergone Tommy John surgery, plus countless more in the Minor Leagues. It’s extended some legendary careers and allowed others to blossom. Without it, we might never have heard the name Jacob deGrom, who underwent TJ (as it's now colloquially called) in 2010 while in rookie ball. We might never have gotten the Flu Game from Stephen Strasburg, who went under the knife after just 12 electrifying MLB starts.And as the procedure has spread, its prognosis has improved dramatically. While John was essentially flying blind during his rehab, never knowing if he'd ever even pick up a ball again, these days there's a fairly standard recovery process: Pitchers still miss a significant chunk of time, but most are expected to return without much, if any, loss of velocity or stuff. So while we hope no pitcher ever needs it, it's nice to know the days of career-ending "sore arms" are behind us -- and we've got John to thank. “according to an article by Chris Landers on mlb.com

Recently, Jordan Montgomery who is a starting left handed pitcher for New York returned to make his first start after having Tommy John Surgery himself. He had this advice to share with his teammate who like him is a pitcher but unlike him is a right handed reliever. “ The only thing I needed was just to be around the guys Montgomery said. I did my rehab here as much as I could so I could be around everybody , because I’ve always heard how lonely it was . I remember when they would go on road games how lonely it was. “according to an article by Bryan Hoch on mlb.com