No news is supposedly good news, but that’s not the case with baseball injuries. The longer one’s status goes unsaid, the more one is left for dead.
Jake Petricka and Charlie Tilson are two of the more extreme cases of this phenomenon. Their injury histories are sprawling fields of red flags, making it very easy to assume the worst. That, in turn, makes any kind of tangible update a relief, even if it still doesn’t officially qualify as positive.
James Fegan is the only one of the beat writers to have Twitter’s expanded character limit, so he was the only one able to sum up Petricka’s recent procedure in one tweet:
Jake Petricka underwent a nerve transposition in his right elbow performed by Dr.