TAMPA — The elbow surgery that Carlos Rodón underwent in October has allowed him to fully bend his left arm, for a change, and gain some extra range of motion on the mound.
The only downside, aside from missing the start of the season, is having to rediscover exactly how to use that extra flexibility after he had adjusted in recent years to pitching with a limited range.
“It feels really loose and the proprioceptionary thing [a body’s subconscious ability to perceive its own position], it’s like relearning the movement and patterning of my arm because there’s quite a bit of degrees there of separation from what it used to be,” Rodón said Monday morning in the clubhouse at Steinbrenner Field. “It takes a little bit to sync it all together, the timing of things, the flow of everything.
“So yeah, it’s taking a little bit. It feels like I’m really loose and I like to feel kind of tight and short. So I’m learning that feeling.”
