Tim and Christina Smelzer were looking at a picture of their ten year old son, Devin, with Cole Hamels. But this was not an ordinary picture. This was a picture of a young boy with no hair due to chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatments treating his cancer. After taking too many trips to the bathroom to urinate, Devin was diagnosed on multiple occasions with a urinary tract infection. However a father of one of Devin’s teammates, and a friend of the family, was a pediatric urologist and recommended a specialist. It was in this meeting that Devin was finally properly diagnosed with a grapefruit sized tumor pressing against his bladder, that a biopsy later proved to be cancerous.
2016 LAD 5th Round Draft Choice Devin Smeltzer
