Sean Doolittle and Bob Melvin both have spent plenty of time in the last 49 hours on the phone with Jarrod Parker after news broke of his elbow injury which turned out to be a fractured medial epicondyle that may necessitate a third Tommy John surgery for the A’s starting pitcher.
Doolittle considers Parker one of his best friends in the game and Melvin has a long bond with the pitch dating to the time when both were in the Arizona organization.
Talking with the two of them, you get the sense that Parker’s emotions are in a state of ebb and flow.