Tampa Bay Rays Pitcher Zach Eflin ‘Super Healthy’ After Battling Knee Injuries Throughout Career

Zach Eflin knocked on his wooden stall in the Rays clubhouse as he spoke about how his arm has remained healthy throughout his big-league career. Indeed, he knows how fortunate he has been since making his MLB debut with the Phillies in 2016 to have avoided arm miseries that have plagued many pitchers. Keeping his legs and knees from barking at him? That has been a problem.

Surgery on both knees wiped out the final two months of Eflin’s rookie season in 2016 and the subsequent recovery kept him sidelined the first couple the following season. Right patellar tendon surgery ruined the second half of the 2021 season and a right knee bruise cost him three months last year.