247 Sports: TCU LHP Ben Abeldt to Undergo Season-Ending Surgery

[TopFrog]

TCU LHP Ben Abeldt to Undergo Season-Ending Surgery​

Jamie Plunkett

Junior LHP Ben Abeldt will undergo season-ending surgery to repair a partially torn UCL, and be lost for the 2025 season, sources confirmed to HornedFrogBlitz.

The loss is a major one for the Horned Frogs, who anticipated Abeldt starting at the front of a retooled weekend rotation that was already working to replace 2024 Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and 2nd team All-American Payton Tolle.

Abeldt spent his first two seasons in the back of TCU's bullpen, earning First Team Freshman All-American honors from D1 Baseball and Baseball America in 2023, and joining the 2024 USA National Collegiate Team.

Read more at https://247sports.com/college/tcu/a...t-to-undergo-season-ending-surgery-245597626/

 

[TopFrog]

Is it my understanding they don't do the old Tommy John surgery, that there is a more modern treatment/repair that shortens and improves recovery?

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

Well scheiss

 

[tcudoc]

Is it my understanding they don't do the old Tommy John surgery, that there is a more modern treatment/repair that shortens and improves recovery?

The Tommy John procedure they do in Central America is more of a low budget process that involves immobilizing the arm by fashioning a sling using Tommy John brand men's underwear and allowing it to heal on its own and hoping for the best.

 

[An-Cap Frog]

The Tommy John procedure they do in Central America is more of a low budget process that involves immobilizing the arm by fashioning a sling using Tommy John brand men's underwear and allowing it to heal on its own and hoping for the best.

I've got a pair of Tommy Johns that are older than my oldest daughter...

 

[FroginBedford68]

The Athletic Gawdz are angry over the women's basketball season, so once again a TCU team is crippled if not immobilized....Seems to happen at least once every academic year to major sports....

 

[bc puckett]

Is it my understanding they don't do the old Tommy John surgery, that there is a more modern treatment/repair that shortens and improves recovery?

There's something called Internal Brace Surgery which sometimes is an option and can have a slightly shorter recovery time.

 

[froginmn]

The Tommy John procedure they do in Central America is more of a low budget process that involves immobilizing the arm by fashioning a sling using Tommy John brand men's underwear and allowing it to heal on its own and hoping for the best.

Always helpful to have doctors on the board.

 

[tcudoc]

Always helpful to have doctors on the board.

Happy to help.

 

[An-Cap Frog]

There's something called Internal Brace Surgery which sometimes is an option and can have a slightly shorter recovery time.

Please don't use the acronym...

 

[PurplFrawg]

Always helpful to have doctors on the board.

You get what you pay for.

 

[Frog79]

The Tommy John procedure they do in Central America is more of a low budget process that involves immobilizing the arm by fashioning a sling using Tommy John brand men's underwear and allowing it to heal on its own and hoping for the best.

They didn't teach me that one in med school.

 

[ShadowFrog]

Always helpful to have doctors on the board.

….check those meds.