MINNEAPOLIS -- Twins reliever Ryan Pressly was feeling particularly good during last season's big series against the first-place Royals in Kansas City on the Fourth of July.
The right-hander was throwing harder than he had all season, hitting 98 mph on the radar gun twice in a perfect sixth inning. But he immediately knew something was wrong after his second pitch of the seventh, which registered at 97 mph.
Pressly felt something in the back of his shoulder. After several tests, it was determined he had strained his lat muscle. He tried to rehab it to make it back during the regular season, but after a small setback in mid-August, Pressly was forced to miss the rest of a promising 2015.