SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Someday they may refer to it as the Seth Maness surgery.
Maness, who signed with the Royals last month on a Minor League deal, had a potential ground-breaking surgery last August after he showed symptoms of UCL damage in his right elbow.
Instead of opting for Tommy John surgery, which essentially takes a ligament from somewhere else in the body to replace the damaged UCL, surgeons basically taped his ligament back to the elbow bone.
"I still have my original ligament," Maness said. "They just tacked it back down with a type of surgical tape.