Los Angeles Dodgers’ Jon Garland's surgery proves season-ending – MLB News
Monday brought, what could be aptly described, a shocking news for the Los Angeles Dodgers as Jon Garland had to undergo season-ending right shoulder surgery.
Long before the right-hander had to get this surgery, the medical-services director of Los Angeles Dodgers had warned it could never have been an easy procedure.
"I don't know that I can say that until after the surgery,'' Conte said. "Shoulder surgery on a major league pitcher is serious stuff. You never can quite tell how it is going to come out.''
The recovery that will take six months, Dr. Neal ElAttrache performed an arthroscopic debridement of Garland's labrum and bursa and a clean-up and reinforcement of the rotator cuff.
The medical-services director had for long been critically looking what Jon Garland was going through.
"He had progressive discomfort through his first nine starts, to the point that he couldn't go anymore,'' Conte said. "He tried several times to throw and wasn't able to do so without pain. He got a second opinion. This kind of gives us no choice with regard
to where we want to go.''
Having played with several teams, Chicago White Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres and in different times, Garland returned to the Dodgers in November last year with a 5-million-dollar deal.
While he seemed to have some problem while pitching, the alarm bells were raised in the first week of July 5 and an announcement made that Garland would be pitching this season.
Considering the preponderant reliance that the Los Angeles Dodgers have had on Garland as a pitcher, his season-ending surgery will be a harbinger of tough times to come in the remaining games for the team as a whole.
Garland became the youngest player of the American League at the age of 20 when he played his debut game for the Chicago White Sox against the Kansas City Royals.
While he had thoroughly tough times to prove his relevance in the Major League, he gloriously succeeded in making it to the All-Star team in 2005.
Surprisingly, while lots of hopes were attached to this players singlehanded performance to guiding the team to the victory, this season turned out to be unusually bad not for him but also for the Dodgers.
He could only play 9 games and pitched 54.0 innings. The right-hand pitcher gave up 55 hits and allowed 26 runs with his 1.39 WHIP and .276 BAA. His ERA remained 4.33 compared to a 4.32 career ERA.
He could only win two games out of the 9 games he was part of the Los Angeles Dodgers this season, losing all others.
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