David Peterson knows what it is like to be the injured pitcher stuck on the sideline.
He was just a week away from his senior season at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colo., when he broke the fibula in his right leg in a pickup basketball game. Peterson, now 26, snapped the bone in two places while pushing off for a layup. The injury required surgery and all but forced him to attend college.
He called it a “life-changing” moment.
“It crushed me,” said Peterson, a left-handed pitcher who despite the injury was selected in the 28th round of the 2014 M.