Chris Bassitt said Friday that there were times over the past year when he wondered if he would ever make it back to the big leagues again following his 2016 Tommy John surgery.
“To be honest, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to get here,” said Bassitt, who was in Oakland’s rotation in 2015. “I’d never really struggled before in baseball, and last year I was getting beat around left and right - hits and runs and people I feel, ‘I should be getting you out and you’re hitting home runs off me.’ Then you think, ‘Oh my goodness .