ANAHEIM -- C.J. Wilson will have surgery to remove bone spurs and bone chips from his left elbow on Thursday at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, the Angels' left-hander said before Monday's series opener against the White Sox.
Dr. Neal ElAttrache will perform the operation, for which the recovery time is typically 8-12 weeks. Wilson expects to be ready for Spring Training and to be throwing well before then.
"It's not just bone spurs," Wilson said. "They're gonna do some other stuff in there. But it's the same timetable -- Spring Training."
After his initial diagnosis of bone spurs at the beginning of August, Wilson got a second round of opinions from multiple doctors at the Kerlan-Jobe clinic on Tuesday -- including a nerve doctor, resident surgeons and orthopedic surgeon James Andrews, based in Alabama, who consulted over the phone.