GLENDALE, Ariz. — At this point, an abnormal approach to the season is a good thing for Carlos Rodon.
Two years ago, Rodon was injured before the season even started and didn’t make his first start until June. Last offseason, he was recovering from shoulder surgery at the end of the 2017 campaign and again didn’t make his first start until June.
Being injured had become his new normal.
So this time was different. It was weird. And that’s good.
“It felt like a normal year, but it actually didn’t really feel like a normal year because a normal year for me was going through an injury,” Rodon said Friday at Camelback Ranch.