Gavin Floyd. Daniel Winkler. Now it’s the Mississippi Braves’ second baseman Ozzie Albies. The Atlanta Braves have piled up some elbow injuries in recent years… but this one is the oddest of the bunch.
You can almost understand post-Tommy John pitchers with an elbow fracture since the torque involved with an arm in its “whip” motion of pitch delivery can generate some incredible and unnatural forces. In those cases, the repaired ligament holds tight and it’s the elbow – often the olecranon – that yields instead.
That’s why Albies injury is strange: he has no history of arm issues (unless you count a thumb injury from a 2015 slide).