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The next morning he arrived at Andrews’s office, donned a white gown and lay flat on a hospital bed, where he remained for hours as Andrews removed the torn ACL, harvested a length of patellar tendon from Stroman’s left leg and threaded it in place of the extracted ligament through holes drilled in Stroman’s femur and tibia.
When Stroman wanted to bathe, he stripped down in the washroom and had Sanchez lift him into the shower and hand him the spout. When he was done, he’d call Sanchez back to lift him out.
He went through two workouts a day, five days a week, with recovery sessions in the pool every Wednesday and Saturday, and a full rest day on Sunday. The workouts were focussed on full-body athleticism and improving Stroman as an overall athlete instead of simply rehabbing his knee. Rather than replacing the car’s flat tire, Butler and his team rebuilt the entire chassis.
Don't do it Marcus... don't do it!
Stroman wants to walk at his commencement ceremony next May, a moment he’s dreamed of since he first got into Duke. “That’s one of the experiences I’ve always wanted: bring my family, put on the outfit, walk out there and get my diploma, the whole thing,” he says. “Maybe they’ll let me fly back between starts or something if I’m not pitching that day. That’d be pretty special.”
“I mean, I just threw my worst pitch—wait, my sixth-best pitch. A change-up. Off a cone. Holding my balance, using all types of flexion and extension and quad strength and hamstring strength and CNS and all that stuff we’ve been doing.” As Huffman filmed him on her phone, Stroman turned up the mock bravado: “So, I guess what I’m saying is, I’m basically primed to win the Cy Young next year.”
less than four months after a surgery that usually requires six to 12 months of recovery. He’d dropped three percent body fat from a frame that didn’t have a ton to lose, and he’d regained the substantial amount of muscle that had atrophied in his injured leg, which just eight weeks earlier was flabby and undefined, looking like he had never walked on it in his life.
