By coincidence, last month when we visited Dodger Stadium, it was Edwin Diaz bobblehead night. The big coincidence is that he once pitched for the Mariners.
Diaz also closed the game for them
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Tommy John left behind an extraordinary legacy that permanently transformed both professional baseball and sports medicine. Though globally recognized as the namesake for the revolutionary ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction surgery, he was also a remarkably dominant, durable athlete who enjoyed a 26-season career. Many baseball fans forget that he was a genuinely elite pitcher. He won 288 career games, which is the second-most victories of any modern-era pitcher not elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He pitched across four different decades (debuting in 1963 and throwing his last pitch in 1989). When he finally retired at age 46, he was the oldest active player in the major leagues. Before his 1974 injury, he had a stellar career with 124 wins. Incredibly, he went on to win 164 more games after the operation, proving that his comeback wasn't just a brief medical miracle, but a highly successful second career. When Dr. Frank Jobe proposed the experimental procedure in 1974, it had a theoretical 1-in-100 chance of success. By agreeing to the surgery and attacking the grueling rehabilitation process with absolute diligence, John fundamentally wrote the script for modern athletic recovery.Before Tommy John, a torn elbow ligament was an immediate, tragic career-ender. His courage transformed what used to be a medical death sentence into a temporary speed bump for thousands of pitchers, from high schoolers to icons like Shohei Ohtani. Despite his global fame, he lived by the advice his father gave him on his very first day as a pro: "Whether you make it big in the big leagues or you don't, you'll always just be Tommy John from Terre Haute, Indiana."
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Tommy John left behind an extraordinary legacy that permanently transformed both professional baseball and sports medicine. Though globally recognized as the namesake for the revolutionary ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction surgery, he was also a remarkably dominant, durable athlete who enjoyed a 26-season career. Many baseball fans forget that he was a genuinely elite pitcher. He won 288 career games, which is the second-most victories of any modern-era pitcher not elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He pitched across four different decades (debuting in 1963 and throwing his last pitch in 1989). When he finally retired at age 46, he was the oldest active player in the major leagues. Before his 1974 injury, he had a stellar career with 124 wins. Incredibly, he went on to win 164 more games after the operation, proving that his comeback wasn't just a brief medical miracle, but a highly successful second career. When Dr. Frank Jobe proposed the experimental procedure in 1974, it had a theoretical 1-in-100 chance of success. By agreeing to the surgery and attacking the grueling rehabilitation process with absolute diligence, John fundamentally wrote the script for modern athletic recovery.Before Tommy John, a torn elbow ligament was an immediate, tragic career-ender. His courage transformed what used to be a medical death sentence into a temporary speed bump for thousands of pitchers, from high schoolers to icons like Shohei Ohtani. Despite his global fame, he lived by the advice his father gave him on his very first day as a pro: "Whether you make it big in the big leagues or you don't, you'll always just be Tommy John from Terre Haute, Indiana."
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