“Joe had a setback,” Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo told reporters on Sunday, in his first press availability from West Palm Beach, FL and Spring Training. Joe, of course, is the Nationals’ starter, Joe Ross, 28, whose 2021 season ended prematurely after he suffered a torn UCL in his right elbow that doctors determined did not require a surgical fix.
That he was able to avoid a second Tommy John surgery was seen as good news for the righty, but on Day 1 of ST 2022, Rizzo shared more bad news.
“He had a little bone spur removed from his elbow in Dallas on — what day was it, the 7th of March,” Rizzo explained.