Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell is indeed getting a brand-new surgical procedure that could save him up to a month in recovery time, becoming possibly the second MLB player to ever do it.
General manager Brandon Gomes said Snell is indeed getting the NanoNeedle procedure on Tuesday, about his decision. “I think I stopped listening after that. It’s like, ‘All right, I’m good with it if you’re good with it.’ You trust the doctors. ElAttrache is the best surgeon in the world. … If he’s comfortable with it, I don’t see why I wouldn’t be comfortable with it.”
Skubal’s agent, Scott Boras, has used the alternative term “Skubal Scope” for the NanoNeedle 2.0.
Skubal has jokingly put some distance between himself and the phrase.
“(ElAttrache) is the one who said it, and Boras ran with it,” Skubal told Stavenhagen. “Let’s clear the room there. I saw a lot of stuff about that. That was not our camp.”