A couple of days ago we learned that right handed pitcher Tristan Beck had returned to San Francisco following “right hand discomfort” and today Bob Melvin announced that the San Francisco Giants rotation hopeful will see a vascular surgeon after being diagnosed with an aneurysm in “his upper arm.” That puts pushes his return into the range of unknown.
While a blow for the Giants’ experimental rotation, let’s stay on the person and acknowledge that intense diagnosis. Aneurysms are a ballooned or weakened artery which can be caused by changes to blood pressure.