Nate Jones didn’t realize how much feeling he had lost in his right hand until he woke up from ulnar nerve repositioning surgery last summer.
The White Sox reliever realized he could feel the air on his fingertips again.
“Dr. (James) Andrews almost hit me upside the head and said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me you couldn’t feel that?’ ” Jones said. “It was like, ‘I didn’t know.’ It was just subtly going away.
“I could tell it was getting better too because last year my slider was backing up and like 10 feet away, and I was like, ‘What is going on?