Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is throwing so well in the wake of his second Tommy John elbow surgery that his rehabilitation team is beginning to tap the brakes.
“We’re trying to keep his velocity down because it needs to be more of a gradual thing,” Dodgers team physician Neal ElAttrache told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, saying he would prefer the two-way phenom’s pitching velocity stay under 90 mph for the moment but that it has crept up to 93.
ElAttrache performed both Tommy John operations on Ohtani, the first in 2018 and the second last September.