The following is a guest post from Steven Simineri, whose work can be found at Double G Sports, among other places. He previously wrote a guest post about Chris Capuano‘s turbulent 2015 season.
Seemingly out of the blue on Monday afternoon, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that promising youngster Greg Bird is going to miss all of the 2016 season following shoulder surgery, which the 23-year-old will undergo today at The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.