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Every day, I see the scar, and I know where I've been and what I've been through. Three years after having Tommy John surgery, I can say I'm a better pitcher than I was when I first came up. It's a blessing in itself, just to come back from something like this.
But it's an experience I would not wish on anyone.
I remember the pitch that caused the injury. I had come into camp in 1999 feeling 100 percent, firing the baseball. We were having a pitcher's practice, and I was on the 40th pitch of a 40-pitch sequence. I was working on my changeup, which was not a comfortable pitch for me, especially back then, and I dropped my elbow a little lower than ...