This past Sunday, Cody Anderson returned to the mound. For the first time in 26 months, he threw pitches to major leaguers, finally overcoming what’s been a hell of a recovery from Tommy John surgery.
It seems like so long ago that Anderson was something resembling the Next Big Thing in Cleveland pitching. With Mike Clevinger and now Shane Bieber, Anderson has passed halfway out of our memory, more a half a mention at the bottom of an article or a blurb at the end of a pool report than an actual player on the 40-man roster.
But I, at least, have watched and waited as Anderson all but disappeared from the public eye, always waiting for his reemergence.