Source: New York Post
It was Terry Collins who was forced to repeat this harshest of sporting truths time and again when he was the manager of the Mets, when Matt Harvey’s elbow would cause alarm bells to go off inside an MRI tube, or Zack Wheeler’s, or when David Wright’s back would betray him or Johan Santana’s shoulder would begin to bark at him. “You want to do what you can to protect ’em, but the one thing you can’t do is encase them in bubble wrap,” he would say, and then he would borrow the words of Dr. Frank Jobe, the man who invented Tommy John Surgery: “No matter how hard you try, if they’re gonna break, they’re gonna break.
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