The Atlanta Braves announced this afternoon that outfield prospect Dustin Peterson injured his hand Wednesday evening while batting against the Yankees.
Its gets worse: today he had surgery to “remove the hook of the hamate bone in his left hand” as a result of that injury.
The procedure comes with an expectation that the 22½ year old Peterson will be out for roughly the next 2 months… plus rehab time, presumably. That would make him available for action again at roughly the end of April/beginning of May.
In theory.