If you search “MLB labrum surgery” on Google, you’ll quickly learn that hurting your labrum is no joke. Articles call it the “career ender,” “the death sentence,” and any other negative idiom you care to spend the time to create. For the Milwaukee Brewers, a push into the playoffs could greatly hinge on the recovery of Jimmy Nelson from one of the most detrimental injuries in baseball.
It’s not just that labrum surgery is bad, it’s that rotator cuff damage with it is worse. Nelson had some rotator cuff damage on top of the labrum damage.