Although Texas Rangers pitcher Jacob deGrom’s season is over and the next campaign will be largely mortgaged, he now looks to the future with optimism.
It’s because his operation is a thing of the past, which took place on June 12 at TMI Sports Medicine in Arlington, and everything went according to the rules of the art.
According to the principal concerned, the worst is behind him.
The hardest part is behind me. That’s what I dreaded: the operation. Now it’s over, and I can’t wait to do all the things necessary to get back to the game. We’ve made a plan of what to do each day, which makes things much easier.
The 35-year-old is not expected to start for Rangers until August 2024, around fourteen months after undergoing his surgery.
And he knows what to expect by then, having already faced a similar problem in 2010, shortly after the New York Mets drafted him.
I know what it takes to come back. It takes a lot of hard work and sticking to the program, not trying to do too much. This is where it got tricky the first time around. I felt good and I really wanted to come back to the game.
Towards the end of the summer of 2024, there will then be three years and dust left on the staggering five-year, $185 million contract that deGrom signed during the offseason.
Let’s hope for him that it will be the last injury of his career.
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