After an MRI, doctors recommended Tommy John surgery. Ohtani will likely not throw another pitch until 2020, and it’s unclear how much he’ll be able to hit next season.

Tommy John surgery is MLB's necessary evil 50 years later: 'We created this mess' A groundbreaking procedure changed baseball 50 years ago. It unintentionally opened the door for an MLB epidemic.

Social media had a lot to say about Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani being called out for possibly using illegal ...

BOSTON — Given the twin struggles of Walker Buehler in Boston and a rehabbing Tanner Houck in Worcester, the Red Sox could ...

Thomas will undergo surgery to have a loose body removed from his left elbow in mid-July, and it's also possible that he requires Tommy John surgery, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports. The left-hander ...

Tommy John surgery: Understand Tommy John surgery (UCL reconstruction), a procedure that replaces an injured elbow ligament with a tendon taken from elsewhere in your body.

Tommy John surgery was once nearly unheard of for high school players. Now it is becoming common. As far back as 2015, one study indicated 56.8 percent of Tommy John procedures are performed in ...

Former Navy pitcher Noah Song has been dominant with the Red Sox organization since beginning his comeback from Tommy John ...

On average, strikeouts declined by 0.06 K/9 following Tommy John surgery. Contrast that with the sufferers of shoulder surgery, who saw a substantial (and much greater) average drop in K/9 of 0.37.

Tommy John pitched in the big leagues from 1963 to 1989 and won 288 games. Only 25 MLB pitchers have won more. But check out his 27 years of statistics, and you'll see one year is blank: 1975 ...

Daniel Hudson was converted to a reliever following two Tommy John surgeries in a span of 13 months in 2012 and ’13, and has since recorded a 4.15 ERA in 332 innings.

The oft-cited 2015 study showed the overall average incidence of Tommy John surgery in the database of athletes from recreational to big-league levels was just under 4 per 100,000 patients.