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Cole, I love you, you’ve got a good head, and it’s awesome to see this kind of support for your new team. But this just isn’t so:
Tony Womack, 285th TJS performed on a professional baseball player all time is the lone exception. Final game with the Cubs was their regular season finale, 9/28/03, surgery was 10/6/03 under Dr. Timothy Kremchek.
No postseason games, unlike his team, but that’s not the criterion Cole gave, so it doesn’t matter. Womack’s first game back was 4/5/04 with St. Louis, their opener.
Verified this by checking every such example in the TJS database I use that also includes minor leaguers and college guys. Womack also has the shortest recovery of all 1,880 players to get back to the same level, MLB, at six months.