Jacob deGrom gets surgery relief, John Smoltz talk

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Jacob deGrom Photo: Christopher PasatieriFor a guy just a few days removed from surgery, Jacob deGrom seemed remarkably upbeat.

But then, why not?

DeGrom said the doctors successfully went into his right elbow Wednesday to reposition the ulnar nerve and discovered no damage to the ligament. What the surgeons found was exactly what they thought they would and that, deGrom said, was a relief.

“It’s reassuring when they got in there they could tell where it [the nerve] was getting aggravated and kind of compressed is the word he used,” said deGrom, who was under the care of noted surgeon Dr. David Altchek. “So the last thing I wanted to hear was [the nerve] looked fine and then what do you…