 Yeah so obviously it's a unique injury especially for I mean I say unique I say unique is in like a baseball sense like for pitchers they typically you know most time when you hear like forearm injuries you're hearing flexor for me it was an extensor so a lot of times like like you've been hearing or reading it's it's like a tennis elbow type thing so yeah I had some various offseason changes I started kind of doing a weighted ball program maybe it could there's so many things that it could be attested to it I don't know if it was a certain lift or maybe it could have been dehydration during that bullpen that day I normally drink a lot of water we had physicals a day before you weren't we weren't allowed to drink for 12 hours I mean it could have been anything really if you want to pinpoint something but I think some of the you know just the workload for me being a young guy you kind of learn that you're kind of going through as you go through offseason you kind of work you're trying to figure out what works for you so for me you really don't know what works for you unless you kind of experience it so I kind of started by throwing my bullpens and stuff earlier this year because obviously I was coming in competing for a job so I wanted to come in ready that like almost wanted to come in as if it was a midseason and you know I kind I think maybe going into my first bullpen I was kind of letting it go a little bit too much and like I said it's just a maturing process and kind of learning what works and what doesn't work but thankfully you know I was you know obviously the day when when I threw my first bullpen after the pen you know I was worried that it was going to be maybe more something more significant with just a lack of range of motion and stuff that I had but thankfully I'm thinking I was thinking the Lord every single moment you know that when I got the MRI everything was so clean on the structurally and you know it was best case scenario type stuff so I feel I feel really really good right now I'm kind of taking it day by day with the process of it obviously it's kind of unique with you know how the prognosis works out and how when to start throwing and stuff like that but I do know that I feel really good and I'm feeling better every single day and I'm thankful that it's just a minor thing I should be back soon thank you yeah I felt so I felt amazing I think this was probably the best I felt coming into a camp as far as an arm standpoint goes and body standpoint I probably started throwing maybe December when typically you know I would start throwing in January I probably had 12 bullpens before I came in into the camp and my Velo's been up a ton you know typically in a bullpen for me I've never been able to get over like 92 94 just because there's no adrenaline and stuff like that but in my bull I think that's another thing to attest this to is my Velo was up in all these bullpens I was 95 97 96 so my my stuff was better than it's been playing it in bullpens and I think that you know that could have led into it a little bit just being you know just a little bit a slight Velo jump and being a little bit more twitchy obviously things can be more susceptible after that thank you you said this is basically best case scenario for you did you think it was your UCL when you first felt it yeah so I didn't I knew it wasn't my UCL because I knew it was on the other side of my arm and and like it was just I just knew it was unique I knew so I threw that bullpen that day like my Velo was up a ton I felt really good and then like halfway through the pin it just didn't seem right it wasn't coming out the same and then like later on in that day it just kind of started stiffening up on me and then by the end of the day it was like super tight I had no range of motion and I was just like what because it was all up in here and I was like I just didn't know I've just never experienced it before so I ended up calling Timmy and then when I came in the next morning I still had no range of motion and so yeah I didn't really know what to expect I didn't know I it was kind of like over the bone around the bone area so I didn't know I didn't know I didn't know what it was so you know as a as a pitcher as an athlete you kind of just think worst case scenario when you're kind of going to that stuff you kind of start to think about the what ifs and and you're just sitting there when you're laying down at night and your brain just starts starts running a little bit and um but thankfully after the MRI doc kind of put everything rest assured and um I was I was very very thankful that it was kind of best case scenario in a minor situation and to know for me to know that I still be able to get to get you know I'm going to be able to log a significant amount of innings this year uh and you know be able to contribute a lot and so to be able to still do that with a minor injury I was very thankful for how frustrated are you considering all the hard work you put in and your desire to be a part of that opening day roster yeah it's uh it was definitely a blow it was it was very frustrating for me um like you said I think this I this was one of those off seasons where I put in more work than I've ever had before um and it definitely was a big blow I think that um you know for me I have to trust and lean on my faith and kind of it was it was definitely a blow but you know like I said I'm thankful that it's a minor injury and that I'll be back soon um but it was one of those things where it's just another mountain to climb and it's kind of you know it's all a part of it's all a part of this game when you're young and stuff you have your adversities and your ups and your downs and um so it's all a learning process for me I'm in a really good headspace right now thankfully I'm with a really good training staff and and these guys surrounded me they're they're really really good with what they do and I'm already feeling tremendously better so I think it's one of those things where it's kind of you got to take the way with the good with the bad and and and kind of just keep on moving forward so that's what I'm going to keep doing thank you best of luck thank you it's with Chrissy Haggard hey Clark I'm just curious um you said you made some changes this winter and your Vila was jumping out was that the the goal of the changes to get the Vila up um so I implemented like so I've done weighted balls in the past but not like I didn't do them recent in the recent years after I had Tommy John in 2017 um I kind of got off the weighted balls and then I as it's you know as it's kind of growing in the game I wanted to there's some things mechanically that I wanted to clean up and I thought you know I figured with the weighted balls and the Yankees and you know as we talked through the stuff we figured you know the weighted balls might help clean up some arm path stuff and um I really wanted to clean up my my goal was to clean up my mechanics with my lower half mechanics and um a lot of that could you know with the drills that I was doing with the weighted balls the walk-ins the wind-ups and a lot of those drills it really helped clean that up uh and another thing it was kind of doing was kind of cleaning it you know in the previous years I had a longer arm path so with the weighted balls it kind of helped shorten up your arm path uh and kind of helps clean up some of that stuff and it honestly as far as that goes it did help me um as mechanically I was feeling and seeing and stuff like that so the goals that I had this off season I reached because of those weighted balls so um it wasn't like I was trying to do a Velo program or or gain velocity um I think that was just you know off hand of it I ended up gaining velocity I don't know if that was could be attested to that but I think another thing was throwing earlier my arm just was in shape from the season um and it just kind of rolled over into the next year and then I think you know gaining some strength and putting some good weight on and stuff like that can also be attested to the Velo jump so uh did you what changes will you make now going forward to prevent this as a weighted balls out or what do you do yeah I think um that's a good question you know that's another thing you know you know when you kind of experience stuff like this it's a maturing process because you get to learn and pick and choose things that work for you and don't work for you and thankfully you know I could have had a big you know it could have been a lot worse and it could have been attested to weighted balls it could have not been attested to weighted balls so it's one of those things where um you know I think maybe I'm going to do it in a more controlled environment maybe as far as like you know not trying to do pull downs or certain exercises where I'm just you know uh max level um maybe stuff that that can you know walk-in drills and certain drills that help me stay on top of the ball uh can lead to you know continuing to clean up my mechanics while also not kind of you know using too much effort level to where I'm fatiguing in the season or uh muscle injuries like this pop up and so another thing is you know I want to be smart with this because it's a muscle injury so um you know muscle injuries you know you know how hamstrings are and stuff like that and it can linger around and you can have setbacks so I really want to be smart in this rehab process and kind of make make sure I'm staying on top of all my stuff to where I don't have to deal with this again in the season that's the goal thank you thank you yeah so I mean I wasn't I didn't spend my time in Tampa in the off season I wanted to try to get down here but with the COVID restrictions I couldn't get down here um but I was in constant communication with the Yankees um Sam Breen and Matt and all those guys were great with that same Sam and I were working on stuff that we we were we had stuff and cues that we were working on at the alternate site last year whether that be like lower half mechanics pulling off the ball or um some of the upper upper body stuff was like arm path and stuff like that and you know I figured that uh with the way to ball and they figured with the way to ball program this stuff would help contribute to cleaning that up um so everything was in conjunction with the Yankees I didn't really go out and you know have a separate trainer or try to do something that wasn't under their jurisdiction jurisdiction and uh they didn't they they knew everything that I was doing so we were in constant communication um and so it was just kind of one of those things where this injury is kind of you know I kind of attested to so many different things but maybe coming into camp and and letting it go a little bit too much in the first bullpen and kind of having that maturing process and you know you like I said you learn from this stuff and thankfully I'm young and thankfully it's a minor thing and you know I'll be back soon and when we talked to Aaron about this what he first mentioned it he said you would not pick up a ball for three to four weeks is that still the timeline yeah I you know the time it's a fluid timeline it's a day by day thing I know that you know a lot of the things that we said early on for me to and requirement for me to throw is uh you know get that range of motion back which I have complete range of motion and be pain free and I'm you know I'm pretty much pain free right now um so they were I mean obviously they were surprised by how quickly I was responding to whether it was the meds or just this is treatment and uh the stuff that they were putting in and so I know that I'm feeling really good but I know it's it's it's you know these guys kind of got to home me in thankfully I have these guys I'm trying to get back out there as quick as possible um so yeah I think the three four week timeline is around there um I know that I'm ready to go and and I kind of I think that I'll hit that mark around the three weeks somewhere around there