It was in some weird solution that kind of freaked me out a little bit. “It’s not really something I want to put on my mantel and look at all the time,” he said. Kelly said he was shown the rib after the procedure - he said if he makes a ‘C’ shape with his index finger and thumb, the rib is roughly that size - and was told he could take it with him if he wanted. He wound up traveling to Dallas, where vascular surgeon Dr. “At 31 years old, you aren’t expecting to hear that news.” “Hearing I had a blood clot in my shoulder, out of this whole experience, was by far the scariest part,” he said. He had an ultrasound the next day in which a blood clot was found. 24, the day when he determined, conclusively, that something was seriously wrong with his shoulder. He was scratched from his scheduled start Aug. Kelly said it has been something of a whirlwind few weeks for him. “That’s why talking to Alex really put my mind at ease,” Kelly said. Kelly said Cobb had the same issue and told him he has not had any problems since. Kelly’s issue was vascular, not neurogenic, meaning it was an issue with blood flow rather than nerves. Kelly came up alongside both in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. And he has had conversations with other pitchers who have had the procedure, including Baltimore Orioles right-hander Alex Cobb and Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Chris Archer.
He has heard encouraging reports from medical experts. Unlike Tommy John surgery, thoracic outlet is less commonplace and thus more unknown, and it seems to have a more checkered success rate.īut Kelly is optimistic. Through five starts, Kelly had a 2.59 ERA in 31⅓ innings and had averaged less than a runner an inning allowed. When he went down, Kelly had been one of the Diamondbacks’ more reliable starters to open the season.
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