TORONTO -- It's ravaged a laundry list of pitchers in Major League Baseball, from Josh Beckett to Jamie Garcia. It ended the career of Chris Carpenter.
And now it has New York Mets starter Matt Harvey planning season-ending surgery.
Thoracic outlet syndrome is nothing to scoff at -- it's serious and damaging -- and Tigers starter Jordan Zimmermann, placed on the 15-day disabled list earlier this week with a strain in his neck, feared he had it.
"King of thought it was," Zimmermann said. "It's kind of a major surgery. It seems like it's pretty easy, from what I read and have been told, but you're still down for six or eight months, or whatever it is.