Some might have seen my thread on going to the Stanford Showcase. Here is my sons dilemma. He is a rising senior catcher so its his last summer before his senior year. We signed him up for the Stanford camp some time ago thinking he would be 100% healthy by the time camp rolled around. He had shoulder pain last October so took him to an ortho and had a MRI done. Diagnosis was some irritation in the shoulder and that PT followed up with a throwing program would get him back. Well, he missed almost his entire junior year other than DHing and some spot PH. Took him to another doctor for another opinion, had a 2nd MRI done that was more detailed than the first (forgot what they called it). The diagnosis was a bruised shoulder bone from the tendon pulling on the bone. Doctor said he needs to take 6 weeks off of doing absolutely nothing including no PT. Says throwing will not make it any worse but at some point he needs to shut it down to allow the bone to heal. Stanford camp is this weekend and he is attending. He can throw the ball with some pain but his Pops will not be as good (we went to the field to see where he was at). His first throws were 2.1 ish, so he unleashed a couple and he as able to get them in the 1.94ish range. When healthy and in a showcase setting he has been in the sub 1.9 range. So my question is, do we let the coaches that are there to watch him know he has an injury up front? or do we just kind of let it play out. Sorry for the long post.
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