In his soon-to-be published book “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports,” big-word-using Yahoo Sports baseball scribe Jeff Passan drops a bomb regarding Jon Lester’s health.
Or maybe it’s more appropriate to say he lobbed a grenade.
“The ultrasound on Lester’s elbow [following the 2014 season] confirmed the presence of something he long suspected lurked inside: a bone chip,” Passan reported. “The UCL itself looked fine, thankfully, and the range of motion…was better than expected, but a little grenade floated near his ligament, and at some point it would warrant surgery.