YANKEES MAY BE SNIFFING AROUND EOVALDI

Interesting development and it's fascinating to me that the Yankee doctor has come forward giving a two time Tommy John recipient a clean bill of heath after a great season by Nathan Eovaldi.  Historically if pitchers keep having that surgery, they fade away into the sunset. It's perceived as bad. But it should be pointed out that Tommy John surgery is more common now, and as we have even seen with a kid like Ty Hensley... you CAN come back from it.

Hensley had a great season with the Evansville Otters for example.

But back to Eovaldi. he was outstanding for the Sox this year.  And now, Dr. Christopher Ahmad has something interesting to say about it.  NJ.com writes:

"Throughout the playoffs, the 28-year-old Eovaldi regularly touched 100 mph on the radar gun. Not bad for a guy who was less than two years removed from his second Tommy John surgery. And no one, including the Yankees, should have any concerns about signing Eovaldi in free agency, based on what New York team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad told NBC Sports Boston this week. 

Ahmad was the one who who operated on Eovaldi in 2016. The right-hander visited Ahmad on Tuesday for a routine visit, including an MRI. 

'To me, he's over Tommy John surgery and he's over revision Tommy John surgery. And I would consider him in the same category of somebody who has a healthy arm, and whatever worry I have about that player, I have the same or less for Nate.

'His elbow, from his description, he had no symptoms whatsoever throughout 2018 once the season started,' Ahmad said. 'His elbow felt great. Obviously, his velocity was there, so his performance and his ability to get guys out and his number of innings pitched was amazing. But from his description, he had no complaints at all. He felt great. 

'When I examined him, his motion was perfect. He had no features on examination that he had a compromise to his elbow. Nothing tender, nothing painful to stress. And we also performed an MRI scan to take pictures of his reconstructed ligament. His reconstructed ligament, even being a two-time reconstructed ligament, looked as perfectly healthy as could be. There was no signal changes in it. His bones around the ligament didn't have any signal changes.'" 

And so what does that mean? Do the Yankees pursue him? Does his price go up? I'm weary, but it's interesting that after an exam like that, Ahmed spoke of it.

We'll have to see what happens, but this is fascinating to me.