White Sox prospect Chris Beck experienced extremes over the course of two weeks in May and June last year.
The right-handed starter made his major-league debut May 28 during a one-day call-up for the Sox’s doubleheader in Baltimore. He allowed four earned runs on 10 hits with four walks and three strikeouts in six innings in a loss.
Just days later, Beck, 25, was back pitching in Triple-A Charlotte when he felt a muscle cramp shooting through his arm, and he knew something wasn’t right.
With tingling in his fingers and pain in his forearm, he feared the worst – Tommy John surgery – so he was relieved to find out the injury instead required ulnar nerve transposition, which allows for a much quicker recovery.