Detroit – From the sound of it, the only way to truly fix Jeimer Candelario’s ailing left wrist is with surgery. And the last thing the Detroit Tigers and Candelario want is to have surgery.
Rock and a hard place.
“Any time, with any joint, surgery is your final option,” Tigers head athletic trainer Doug Teter said Sunday. “You will go for two, three non-surgical rehabs and make sure they fail before you cut. Because there are no guarantees. It’s easy to say you get surgery and it’ll never happen again.
“But it’s not like the game Operation where you just open him up and the problem is right there on top and you take it out.