The pain is gone now. Perhaps we can start there.
Royals minor-league pitcher Kyle Zimmer can do normal things again, simple stuff like reaching for soap in the shower or putting on a T-shirt. For so long, he says, he would go to reach for something around the house, and there was the pain again, this nagging, sharp, brutal feeling that felt like someone was stabbing him.
“Felt like a dagger in my arm,” Zimmer said. “I was like: “What’s going on?’ ”
This was last summer, and now the pain is mostly gone. Zimmer, the former first-round pick and top pitching prospect, is healthy again, ready for his fifth spring training with the Royals.