MLB: Fernando Tatis Jr. is making a mistake by not having surgery, according to a specialist doctor

There is no doubt that the Dominican Fernando Tatis Jr. is one of the great stars today in MLB and it is one of the great candidates to take the MVP of the National League. However, his candidacy could have been stronger were it not for the shoulder injuries that afflicted him during much of the season, of which he missed 32 games in total, and for which, both the San Diego Padres and he decided not to go to the operating room.

However, this could have future consequences for the player, since according to Dr. David J. Chao commented on Steve Hartman’s radio show on XTRA1360, Tatis Jr.’s shoulder injury is impossible to keep healthy with only rehabilitation and it would greatly limit the athletic capacity of the Dominican and therefore his game, which is very dynamic and demanding throughout his body.

Shoulder dislocations once they occur, it is very likely that they will recur again, and Tatis already had 5 documented episodes this season and when this happens, there is usually a tear in the labrum that does not heal on its own and requires surgery. Without surgery, you are facing a lot of problems especially in such an athletic and dynamic player as Tatis.

The reality is that surgery could cost Tatis Jr. a lot of season time in the short term, but as Dr. Chao, who was an NFL team doctor for 17 years, remarked, problems are likely to keep popping up and In the long run, surgery would be in the best interest of the San Diego Padres player.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and I am going into my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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