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Shohei Ohtani likely to undergo Tommy John surgery

by Dan Tursky | Dodgers Correspondent | Wed, Sep 5th 6:29pm EDT

After going under an additional MRI following his early exit on Sunday, Bill Shaikin reports that Shohei Ohtani has additional damage in his UCL, and is being recommended for Tommy John surgery. (Bill Shaikin on Twitter)

Fantasy Impact:

It is a devastating development for one of the absolutely most intriguing players in all of baseball. Furthermore, the fact that the surgery has not happened yet, and likely won't for another number of weeks, sets Ohtani up to miss the entire 2019 season. It is possible he could still DH for the remainder of 2018 and for parts of 2019 assuming the recovery period goes as planned. There were risks for teams signing Ohtani out of Japan earlier this year and unfortunately for Los Angeles, they have unluckily come to fruition.

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