THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Mariano Rivera did not have the surgery, despite how often this is cited.

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2009/08/mariano_rivera_tommy_john_and.html

Would love to have the dates of the surgery for these guys…

Here are others not on Jeff’s list who’ve had the surgery and pitched in the majors.

Nick Adenhart
Carlos Almanzar
Jose Arredondo
John Axford (in college)
Andrew Bailey (in college)
Jason Berken
Nate Bland
Doug Brocail
Lance Carter
Jason Christiansen
Neil Cotts
Mark DiFelice
Kyle Drabek
Darren Dreifort
Brian Duensing
Phil Dumatrait
Dave Eiland
Cal Eldred
Scott Erickson
Ryan Feierabend
Scott Feldman
Mike Fetters
Jaime Garcia
Lee Gronkiewicz
Sterling Hitchcock
Kevin Jarvis
Bobby Korecky
Scott Lewis
Kerry Ligtenberg
Brad Lincoln
Jesse Litsch
Macay McBride
Jake McGee
Mark McLemore (the pitching one)
Jon Meloan
Cla Meredith
Brian Moehler
Sergio Mitre
Lance Painter
John Parrish
Danny Patterson
Odalis Perez
Scott Proctor
Alberto Reyes
David Riske
Joe Roa
Nate Robertson (in college)
Alfredo Simon
Steve Sparks
Denny Stark
Garrett Stephenson
Scott Strickland
Eric Stults
Junichi Tazawa
Michael Tejera
Brian Tollberg
Rick Vanden Hurk
Oscar Villarreal
Paul Wagner
Adam Wainwright
David Wells
Clay Zavada

#3, what is the difference between your list and Jeff’s and did all the guys on your list other than Axford, Baily, and Robertson have the surgery while in the majors?  Minors or majors?  Do you have the dates?

Jeff wrote at the top of his post that at this point he’s simply trying to build a complete list of pitchers who’ve had TJ surgery. I was merely posting additional names of pitchers known to have had the procedure. As for whether the players were in the majors or dates, I don’t have that info except for a couple I happen to know (like Wainwright and Proctor), but web searching can reveal this for most. If you’d like the list updated with that, just give the word and a day or so.

Thanks NaOH - I will starting putting dates and results to the players.  This is going to be a huge pain in the ass, but that is why no one else has done the work and made it available to the public.

Jeff,

Can you send me an e-mail at:

pontifexexmachina at gmail dot com

Thanks.

Jeff,

I have a full list that I compiled for an article I wrote in The Hardball Times Annual 2008. E-mail me if you’d like it. I believe it’s over 200 players, going back to Tommy John himself.

David, can you email that to me too?  Thanks!

With the help NaOH, Colin, David and others, I was able to get a list of ~350 players that had at least one TJS and have the exact surgery dates (5/5/2005) on about 5% of them.  The NaOH and I are going to start going through all of instances and try to get all the exact surgury dates.  If anyone is willing to help in any amount please let me know (wydiyd ~ hotmail).  The help would be greatly appreciated.