Johnny Cueto’s barking elbow has been a noise nuisance for years now and the medical opinion has to this point simply been a matter of rest. That doesn’t make it any less scary for a team paying out millions of dollars to the elbow-haver or to the fans who root for the elbow, but it doesn’t snuff out all hope, either.
Last night, Cueto fanned that faint flame of hope in Sacramento with his first rehab outing since the elbow howled at the moon. The plan was for him to throw 40 pitches, which meant he needed to show quality stuff in a short span of time.