Liam Hendriks: ’There was no way in hell I wasn’t making it back this year’

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Chuck Garfien sits down with White Sox reliever Liam Hendriks who talks about his battle with cancer, making it back to the majors despite pitching with a torn ligament in his elbow that needed Tommy John surgery, the job new GM Chris Getz has ahead of him, why he believes it's a long shot the White Sox will pick up his option and more.

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0:18.9	There was no rushing back at all, but I also knew that there was a time where I'm pretty sure it was done before I even started my rehab assignment.
0:26.4	But there was no way in hell I wasn't making it back this year.
0:29.0	These guys didn't know as much, but there was no way I wasn't getting back.
0:35.9	Liam Hendricks was in a fight for his life this year in a battle with stage four non-Hodgkins
0:43.1	lymphoma and as you're going to hear he was determined to get back on the mound for the white
0:48.9	socks even if it meant pitching in the majors with a completely torn ligament in his elbow.
0:56.7	Who has the pain tolerance and the fight within to do something like that?
1:02.3	Liam Hendricks does.
1:03.8	Hey, everybody, it's Chuck Garfine.
1:05.6	Welcome to the White Sox Talk podcast.
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1:10.3	And before this even happened, Liam said he'd been pitching with a partial tear in his
1:15.9	pitching elbow since 2008.
1:18.7	But before his rehab assignment, he threw a pitch, and it was a partial tear no longer.
1:24.7	He could have, maybe should have stopped there, but he wouldn't until he
1:29.8	made it back with the White Sox. Liam pitched in five games, won two of them, got to save
1:35.3	in another, but the pain eventually became too much, and he needed Tommy John's surgery. On the
1:41.4	podcast, Liam talks more about why he wouldn't quit. Plus, his battle
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