But during the NLCS, he suffered a tear in his subscapularis, a tendon in the back of the shoulder, the largest muscle in the rotator cuff. “I did not bounce back well after Game 6 (of the NLCS).

The primary aim of this study was to quantify the amount of apoptosis in supraspinatus tendons presenting partial-thickness tears and matched intact subscapularis tendons. Methods 9 partially torn ...