Background: my son had TJ surgery last year following his junior year in college, he redshirted this year and will return as a grad student. At his last follow up visit he said they were very happy with his progress and will clear him to pitch in games at his next visit which is next week. He asked if his coach could place him in a summer league and he said yes that it would be good for him to work on getting back and also help him get his head on straight mentally trusting that he was healed. He kept stressing that if I clear you you are good. So he is placed in a summer league but he never did ask if there was some sort of limit on pitching. He has one teammate who’s surgeon said go pitch, start throw 5 innings if you’re feeling good. Listen to your body. His other friends surgeon had him on a strict 1 or 2 innings a week limit. (after another full year he still isn’t capable of pitching more than an inning or two) Neither of them have the same surgeon as my son so he will obviously wait to see what his says but I’m just wondering what is the norm? He followed his throwing program completely. He’s up to throwing 75 pitch bullpens at 100%. He said he feels really good except when he throws his slider. He said it doesn’t hurt but feels weird and is wondering if it’s because they moved his nerve. Velocity still isn’t back to what it was which they told him to not worry about. (But he is anyway) Mentally he’s been all over the map from being excited and anxious to hurry up and get on the mound to doubting if he’s ready. Any input on that end would be helpful also. It’s been a long hard year. I’m just hoping this summer goes well.
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