We got an update on Hunter Green and it's not great.

We'll discuss up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express.

Welcome in to FBT Express on Wednesday, March 11th.

I am Frank Stample joined by Chris Towers.

And let's go over the news from Tuesday.

Obviously, the big update that we got here, Chris, was that Hunter Green has bone chips and loose bodies in his

elbow, no damage to the UCL, but he's getting that elbow scoped, and the hope is that

he'll return in July. So we've got to wait quite a bit. Is he still worth drafting in a

standard mixed 12-team league? Yeah, assuming standard means you have multiple IL spots to play with.

Absolutely.

I think Hunter Green is worth stashing because, look, when this guy's healthy,

he's one of the 10 or so best pitchers in baseball.

And this should be fairly straightforward.

It's a relatively minimal, non-invasive procedure.

Does not require ligament repair, ligament damage, anything like that.

So in theory, should be a fairly straightforward recovery process.

And Hunter Green, you know, they said 12 to 14 weeks, he'll be back in the majors. That could be before the All-Star break. There's not a lot of leeway, though. You know, that's like, if it's 14 weeks, it's probably after the All-Star break. And if there's any kind of setback, then you're starting to look at like, yeah, that's probably August.

And then he has to ramp up.

And so there are a lot of ways you can go wrong without even getting into like Walker Bueller in 2022 had bone spurs removed from his elbow midseason and ended up having Tommy John surgery before he was able to come back because

he just had setback after setback.

Things can go wrong.

Anytime you're opening someone up, things can go wrong.

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