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Originally Posted by Rausch
I didn't know that. So you know pretty early if knee surgeries are a success or not? That is good news.
I know my buddy had an acl and mcl (I think) one after the other and said both were painful as hell and a bitch to rehab. You have to deal with the pain or it won't heal right. Do all the rehab or it won't heal right. Do all the stretching or it won't heal right.
Then you have an elevated risk of a different injury due to the tendency to over compensate and use other joints and limbs too much.
Right or wrong we basically agreed to all this risk to save 20 draft slots. That's what it comes down to. We didn't want to pay the price to move up into the top 15 to get a top 15 talent.
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'Success' in surgery for professional athlete terms means "didn't fail"
You know if the graft didn't take. Or if it yielded a bunch of scar tissue that obviously compromised the joint.
But every pitcher that ever returned to a mound had a 'successful' surgery first, even if they're throwing 10 mph less than they used to.
A successful surgery is the first, easiest hurdle to clear.