PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Marcus Stroman cried when a doctor told him in March that he had torn his anterior cruciate ligament after falling in a spring training fielding drill. He called his father, his mother and Ryan Bahnsen, his best friend from high school on Long Island.
“I couldn’t hear what he was saying, because he was in tears,” Bahnsen said. “He was so devastated.”
And then Stroman, a top young starter for the Toronto Blue Jays, made a plan. From the same hospital room in Palm Harbor, Fla., he called his mother again.
“Within two hours,” his mother, Adlin Auffant, said Monday from her seat behind the plate at McCoy Stadium.