Sometime after Nathan Eovaldi was traded to the Boston Red Sox, the surgeon who performed the pitcher's second elbow reconstruction texted a picture to the right-hander. But what Dr. Chris Ahmad sent to Eovaldi was not an image related to his mechanics, or a ligament, or the tunnels carved out in his right elbow.
No, it was a fine shot of a bass, because the perpetually gregarious Eovaldi often asks his doctor about the fishing he does with his children, and Dr. Ahmad wanted to document the prize.
Eovaldi's elbow? All good. His pitching?