NEW YORK -The New York Yankees starting rotation, already reduced by injuries, ineffectiveness and a trade, suffered a crippling blow on Tuesday when it was announced that Nathan Eovaldi would undergo extensive surgery on his pitching elbow to repair a torn flexor tendon and partially-torn ulnar collateral ligament.
The procedure includes Tommy John surgery tore pair the UCL injury, the second time Eovaldi has had the surgery. The first time was nine years ago when he was a 17-year-old high school pitching star for Alvin H.S. in Alvin, TX, the same high school attended by Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan.