Life in baseball is certainly unpredictable and players have to deal with minor adversity all the time that doesn’t hit the headlines. Minor and/or nagging injuries are played through, things happen at home that you miss out on, and some days you just have to power through not feeling 100% in order to get your work in or finish out a game. Its just the way things are.
That is what Braves’ pitching prospect thought he was dealing with for years. In college as well as his first year as a pro, Kasey dealt with soreness in his wrist that he thought was just soreness that hung around from a weightlifting injury from back in high school.