Tommy John surgery is an epidemic that needs to be corrected. If there is one thing I would wish upon baseball as something that would immediately make the game better, it would be where we create a way to keep pitchers healthy indefinitely. Barring that, I wish there was a way to speed up the recovery time for when a pitcher has to go under the knife for a surgery that knocks him out of commission for longer than 12 months.
Wen-Hui Pan has the potential to be a really good reliever for the Phillies, something they haven’t really developed a lot of lately.