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Elbow surgery for Chad Billingsley
Mark SaxonApr 23, 2013, 09:26 PM
Close- Mark Saxon covers the St. Louis Cardinals for ESPN.com. He served as the Dodgers team reporter for ESPNLosAngeles.com. through the 2015 season. He spent six years at the Orange County Register, and began his career at the Oakland Tribune, where he started an 11-year journey covering Major League Baseball. He has also covered colleges, including USC football and UCLA basketball.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers announced that Chad Billingsley will undergo Tommy John surgery Wednesday, costing the pitcher the rest of this season and likely a good chunk of 2014.
Billingsley had the option of undergoing elbow surgery last September, but elected for rehabilitation and received an injection of platelet-rich plasma at the time. The right-hander was on the disabled list for elbow inflammation three times in the past year.
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LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers pitcher Chad Billingsley will not pitch in 2014. The right-hander as expected on Monday opted for surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow. The surgery will be performed by Dodgers team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles.
Billingsley will be able to throw again in three months, and full recovery from the procedure will take six months.
"I'm flustered. I didn't want to have to spend two years in rehab. The season's down the drain again," Billingsley said Monday, before a heavy sigh. "But that's how it goes."
Billingsley was on the rehab from Tommy John surgery in April 2013, a procedure that was delayed over an offseason as Billingsley opted for an alternate treatment of platelet-rich plasma injections into his elbow in September 2012.
"It has been a long couple of years for him, but you kind of hope this is the surgery that gets him over the hump," manager Don Mattingly said.
This time, Billingsley could have received stem cell
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Dodgers have lost another arm in their cirkelrörelse after it was announced that Chad Billingsley will undergo Tommy John surgery, with an expected recovery of 12 months.
Billingsley was scratched from his expected start Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles with elbow pain. The right hander was placed on the 15-day disabled list and returned to Los Angeles to have an MRI on the elbow.
The 28 year old pitcher was placed on the DL at the end of last årstid, and was given the option to undergo Tommy John surgery. Billingsley declined, and opted rather to treat the elbow through injection.
Billingsley joins an ever-increasing roster of inactive Dodgers pitchers. Zach Greinke suffered a broken collarbone in the scuffle that ensued as the result of San Diego Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin charging the mound after being hit by a pitch. Chris Capuano was called out from the bullpen to replace Greinke in the rotation, but made it just kvartet innings throug