Brady Aiken, the hard-throwing lefty who didn’t sign after being last year’s No. 1 draft pick by the Houston Astros, has announced he had Tommy John surgery.
The 18-year-old Aiken was pitching for the IMG Academy to prepare for this year’s draft. Aiken wrote an essay that was published Thursday on The Player’s Tribune website in which he says he is ”extremely disappointed” about tearing the ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow.
Aiken, who attended Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego, went first overall last June despite some concerns about his elbow. Aiken and the Astros failed to agree to contract terms, but he writes that he ”can honestly say I don’t regret not signing.”
Aiken realized something was wrong with his elbow when he made his first start last week at IMG, a private training institute in Florida.
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