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The Washington Post: Matuella 2 Months After Surgery
6/5/2015 3:33:00 PM | Baseball
From The Washington Post
By Barry Svrluga
Michael Matuella wasn't going to let on. He wasn't going to tell anyone that he woke up on a Saturday in March and couldn't quite straighten out his right arm. He had an MRI exam that showed a completely normal ulnar collateral ligament, and with that came a clear conscience: He could pitch. Whatever bothered him the previous day — when his 89th pitch against Pittsburgh sailed high and away, and his 90th did the same, and his 91st managed to get to the top of the strike zone but was cracked for a base hit — surely was temporary.
“I was basically praying that I would wake up the next Friday and feel like, 'Oh, it's gone,' ” Matuella said. “Like magic.”
But Matuella's situation has never involved magic, not in health nor performance, not in accomplishment nor potential. By the time he rose that Saturday morning in March, he was a towering 6-foot-6 right-hander at Duke, a pitcher considered among a handful of players who might be selected with the first overall pick in the major league baseball draft, which begins Monday. Blessed by genetics, yes. But magic hadn't put him in that position.
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