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LOS ANGELES – Cubs catcher Carson Kelly still has photos of the X-rays on his phone. The result of a spring training fastball striking the exact wrong spot on his right forearm in 2023, they show his ulna snapped through, a millimeter shy of being considered displaced and requiring surgery.
Kelly can explain how fractures heal, as he feels along his forearm for the bump in the bone that he suspects is still there.
“It’s forming back together, but then you’ve got to get it to be pliable,” he said in a conversation with the Sun-Times this week.